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 ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Editors of Green Guide

* * * Another perc alternative uses liquid carbon dioxide (CO2), also used for decaffeinating coffee, which has no reported adverse health risks. In this process, developed by a private ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-11 | Author:Maude Barlow

BRAZIL IN THE LEAD Brazil and the United States produce almost 90 percent of the world’s biofuels. Brazil is the leading manufacturer and exporter of sugarcane ethanol, and most cars ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:James Salzman [SALZMAN, JAMES]

This incredible—truly incredible—tale invented at Winchcombe Abbey was a likely result of such boosterism, as pilgrimage sites competed with one another to get a cut from the revenue stream. One ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Naam, Ramez

Increasing our governmental investments in R&D, introducing competition and incentives into schooling, and funneling more college students into science and engineering are all key steps to boosting our long-term rate ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rose George

Public bathrooms, and their absence, throw up big questions. For me, the questions started with the doors. In China, I asked a lot of people about why their toilets had ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Adam Minter

Homer Lai grew up in a small farming village, but today he lives near the top of a luxury high-rise overlooking the Bei River in Qingyuan. It’s a big place—four ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-01-29 | Author:Ian McCallum

wishful thinking. Whilst it is impossible to participate in our own fate without a deep sense of awe and gratitude for the forces of creation and evolution, it is important ...