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Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
mobi |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:William Powers

SIMPLIFY 14. THE IDLE MAJORITY ON JANUARY 21, 1949, some two billion people woke up and got out of bed, still unaware of the terrible change that had taken place ...
( Category: Environmental May 7,2014 )
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor (Penguin Science) by Gordon J E
epub |eng | 1991-03-27 | Author:Gordon, J E [Gordon, J E]

Figure 2. When an aircraft wing is to be tested, it is mounted by its root fitting in a large steel framework. Many hundreds of attachments, distributed over the wing ...
( Category: Strength of Materials March 27,2014 )
A Short History of Nuclear Folly by Rudolph Herzog
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Rudolph Herzog [Herzog, Rudolph]

CHAPTER SEVEN Flying Reactors There are places where radioactive substances have no business being. One of them is space. That may sound like science fiction, but it is, in fact, ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 26,2014 )
3000 Degrees by Sean Flynn
epub |eng | 2008-12-20 | Author:Sean Flynn [FLYNN, SEAN]

“Command to Engine 3.” Lt. John Sullivan heard Mike McNamee call his truck. He punched his radio. “Engine 3” “Come up to the side of the building,” Mike told him. ...
( Category: Fire Science March 26,2014 )
The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want by Garret Keizer
epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Garret Keizer

SPRINGFIELD, USA The first motorcycles manufactured in the United States were made in 1901 at the Indian Company in Springfield, Massachusetts, now the location of the corporate headquarters for handgun-makers ...
( Category: Urban March 26,2014 )
Aquaponic Gardening by Sylvia Bernstein
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Sylvia Bernstein

Biofilter for the solid waste In media-based aquaponics, the solid waste from the fish is pumped into the grow beds along with the liquid waste. This is then broken down ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture March 26,2014 )
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash by Edward Humes
epub |eng | 2012-04-19 | Author:Edward Humes [Humes, Edward]

TRASHY DELUSIONS From a Garbage Project study for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on the Lean Cuisine syndrome (how people overestimate and underestimate their consumption of certain foods based on ...
( Category: Environmental March 26,2014 )
The Sound Studies Reader by Jonathan Sterne
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Sterne

Keyword: Record Although the exhibitions of 1878 were short-lived, Redpath quickly went on to fresh projects, and souvenir sheets of tinfoil were soon forgotten, the medium of sound recording had ...
( Category: Acoustics March 26,2014 )
Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future by Tim Flannery
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-03 | Author:Tim Flannery

As of early 2008, humanity had just thirty-seven days' worth of grain supply in reserve. It's been said that the ancient Romans had a more generous buffer against famine. As ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (EasyRead Large Edition) by Ian McCallum
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Ian McCallum

PART TWO LOOKING AHEAD Tonight I want you to feel the blurred edge between good and bad, to say no to the urge to look away or to take sides… ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
The God Species by Mark Lynas
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-05 | Author:Mark Lynas

BOUNDARY SIX TOXICS There is perhaps no better illustration of the domestication of our world than how rapidly we are turning it into plastic. Plastics are everywhere. In the deepest ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World by Martin Keogh; Michael Pollan; Barbara Kingsolver; Alice Walker; Howard Zinn
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Martin Keogh; Michael Pollan; Barbara Kingsolver; Alice Walker; Howard Zinn

–Halldis Moren Vesaas Chameli Ardagh is one of the world’s leading pioneers on contemporary feminine spirituality. She is the director, founder, and senior teacher with the Awakening Women Institute. She ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Steven Solomon

By every measure, the canal was a stupendous success. Within a decade, some 5,000 vessels were passing through it every year, as many as through Suez. By 1970, over 15,000 ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-03-14 | Author:Marc Reisner

Like the westbound wagons that had to jettison furniture, food, even water in order to plow through the desert sands, the Central Arizona Project was finally light enough to move. ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Timothy Egan

10. Blowup A WIND OUT OF the American West that tumbles in roller-coaster fashion is known as a Palouser, a Sahaptin Indian word that sounds poetic, named for the lilt ...
( Category: Fire Science March 25,2014 )

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