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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke
epub |eng | 2016-07-25 | Author:Gretchen Bakke [Bakke, Gretchen]

NOTABLE PASSINGS In 2014 the people of Boulder voted to municipalize their electrical infrastructure. They simply bought the wires and all the rest from Xcel and bade their digging, meddling, ...
( Category: Electricity September 11,2016 )
Organohalide-Respiring Bacteria by Lorenz Adrian & Frank E. Löffler
epub |eng | | Author:Lorenz Adrian & Frank E. Löffler

14.3.2 Toxins and Inhibitors O2 scavenging Another benefit of growth in mixed culture for the obligate OHRB is that of O2 scavenging when the community is exposed to oxygen . ...
( Category: Environmental August 14,2016 )
Retreat from a Rising Sea by Orrin H. Pilkey
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Orrin H. Pilkey

Recently the Army Corps of Engineers declared that Fire Island, New York, had been “damaged” by Hurricane Sandy, a clear misunderstanding of barrier-island evolution processes. Some islands are narrow and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 8,2016 )
Rewilding the World by Caroline Fraser
epub |eng | | Author:Caroline Fraser

Kenya and “the Government’s Cattle” Kenya is divided by the Great Rift Valley, a wide plain formed thirty million years ago when tectonic plates collided and then heaved apart. To ...
( Category: Environmental May 12,2016 )
Green Chemistry and Engineering by Marteel-Parrish Anne E.; Abraham Martin A.; & MARTIN A. ABRAHAM
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Marteel-Parrish, Anne E.; Abraham, Martin A.; & MARTIN A. ABRAHAM

Aspartame was discovered by accident by Jim Schlatter, a chemist at G.D. Searle in 1965. Jim Schlatter was working on drugs for the treatment of gastric ulcers when he spilled ...
( Category: Environmental May 1,2016 )
The Creation by Edward O. Wilson
epub |eng | 2006-04-30 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

An ivory-billed woodpecker. (From James C. Greenway Jr., Extinct and Vanishing Birds [New York: American Committee for International Wildlife Protection, 1958], p. 358.) A new and already world famous Lazarus ...
( Category: Environmental May 1,2016 )
The Naturalist by Darrin Lunde
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Darrin Lunde

Theodore Roosevelt (left) on the cowcatcher of a train used by the Smithsonian African Expedition in Kenya. R. J. Cuninghame (center) was Roosevelt’s professional hunting guide, and Dr. Edgar Mearns ...
( Category: Wildlife April 14,2016 )
Eco-Sex by Stefanie Iris Weiss
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Stefanie Iris Weiss [Weiss, Stefanie Iris]

Music, Sweet Music A 2008 study conducted by Dr. Michael Miller, director of preventative cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, reported that blood vessel diameter improved ...
( Category: Environmental April 2,2016 )
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life by George Monbiot
epub |eng | | Author:George Monbiot [Monbiot, George]

10 The Hushings . . . the smashed faces Of the farms with the stone trickle Of their tears down the hills’ side. R. S. Thomas Reservoirs Of all the ...
( Category: Environmental February 29,2016 )
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring by William Souder
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:William Souder [Souder, William]

The “safety” of a pesticide is a relative question, as the toxicity of any substance depends on the dose and the route of exposure. Calling a compound an “insecticide” identifies ...
( Category: Environmental February 24,2016 )
How to Thrive in the Next Economy by John Thackara
epub |eng | 2015-02-20 | Author:John Thackara

8 CARING: FROM CURE TO CARE, FROM ME TO WE I was emboldened, upon arriving at the Mayo Clinic’s Centre for Innovation, to learn from the conference host that ‘people ...
( Category: Environmental February 21,2016 )
Floodpath by Jon Wilkman
epub |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Jon Wilkman [Wilkman, Jon]

10. Los Angeles on Trial Nine days after the St. Francis flood ebbed into the Pacific, accusations of a link between the disaster and a dynamite plot headlined newspapers and ...
( Category: Environmental February 15,2016 )
Chasing Molecules by Elizabeth Grossman
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Elizabeth Grossman

“Why weren’t we asking the right questions? Why didn’t we have the knowledge of why something is toxic?” Paul Anastas asks rhetorically when I speak to him in his office ...
( Category: Environmental September 21,2015 )
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
epub |eng | | 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 June 13,2015 )
The World Is Blue by Sylvia A. Earle
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-11 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...
( Category: Oceanography June 12,2015 )

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