mobi |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Michael Shellenberger; Ted Nordhaus

THE RISE AND FALL OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS A Cautionary Tale Mark Sagoff In September of 1982, a group of scholars met in Stockholm intending to reform — even to revolutionize ...

mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Rogers, Heather [Rogers, Heather]

CHAPTER SIX The Price of Air: Carbon Offsets Gudibanda is a string of dusty villages about sixty kilometers north of Bangalore in the southern state of Karnataka, India. The landscape ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Spratt, David & Sutton, Philip [Spratt, David]

CHAPTER 17 When ‘Reasonable’ Is Not Enough In November 2007, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon told the world that global warming is an emergency, and ‘for emergency situations we need emergency ...

mobi, epub |ru | 2011-09-20 | Author:Cynthia Barnett

After the philosophers, the academics, and the Christians, there was still one crucial authority I had yet to mine for ethical truths about water. And that was YouTube. One Saturday ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Derrick Jensen

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mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jared Diamond

The 1657 Meireki fire, and the resulting demand for timber to rebuild Japan’s capital, served as a wake-up call exposing the country’s growing scarcity of timber and other resources at ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

III World War II transformed Alaska, seemingly overnight, from a backwater territory to a major strategic asset that was well worth defending. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor the Japanese ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-17 | Author:Jensen, Derrick [Jensen, Derrick]

BRINGING DOWN CIVILIZATION, PART I It IS possible to get out of a trap. However, in order to break out of a prison, one first must confess to being in ...

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, pdf |eng | | Author:Coyle, Diane [Coyle, Diane]

CONCLUSION High trust is essential to the kind of economy we have now, but at the same time fragile. Building social capital needs more careful attention; future prosperity will depend ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Brown, Lester R. [Brown, Lester R.]

* * * Data, endnotes, and additional resources can be found on Earth Policy’s Web site, at www.earth-policy.org. * * * 9 Harnessing Wind, Solar, and Geothermal Energy As fossil ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Collier, Paul [Collier, Paul]

Are There Investment Opportunities? Could the reason why investment in Africa is so modest simply be because it does not offer a high return? After all, investors vote with their ...

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. ...

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 |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Alan Weisman [WEISMAN, ALAN]

In the village of Ahmed Khan Zour, fifty kilometers farther north, a HANDS theater troupe is giving its 640th performance. More than one hundred women in bright salwar kameez and ...