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… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:David McCullough

There are times when standing alone on this spot, one feels as completely isolated as if in a dungeon. Some three years ago I had an experience of this kind ...

mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Alexis Madrigal

The solar transcendentalists drew from a wide range of sources for their philosophies. There were the deep American antitechnological roots of Thoreau and there were the popular philosophers of the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-29 | Author:Al Gore

THIS CHAPTER BEGAN with a discussion of how we are, for the first time, changing the “being” in human being. We are also changing the other beings to which we ...

mobi |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Klare, Michael T. [Klare, Michael T.]

TABLE 6.1: THE RARE EARTHS AND THEIR USES Sources: U.S. General Accounting Office, Rare Earth Materials in the Defense Supply Chain, April 1, 2010; Keith Bradsher, “China Tightens Grip on ...

mobi, epub |ru | 2012-04-18 | Author:Edward Humes

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 ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Richard Heinberg

FIGURE 39. World Energy Use and GDP. Sources: US Energy Information Administration, International Monetary Fund. Another often-ignored factor skewing the energy-GDP relationship is outsourcing of production. In the 1950s, the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Hiscock, Geoff [Hiscock, Geoff]

In the early 1980s, Jack Welch, then head of the U.S. conglomerate General Electric, decided he no longer wanted to be in commodities. He set about divesting GE’s commodity assets, ...

epub |eng | 2007-02-26 | Author:Maude Barlow [Barlow, Maude]

Ecuador On March 1, 2007, the mayor of Quito, Ecuador’s capital, announced he had halted plans to privatize the city’s water, plans that had been seriously underway for four years. ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Alice Bowe

Moving or transplanting Most people don’t realize how delicate the root systems of their plants are—that’s why we are tempted to break the rules and move plants in the heat ...