Environmental Science
epub |eng | 2019-07-02 | Author:Mathis Wackernagel

Allocation Approach #1 — Reduction of Footprint Relative to Historical Size This approach starts at historical levels of consumption, similar to the mechanism the Kyoto Protocol developed for the reduction ...
( Category: Canadian September 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-06 | Author:A B Turner [Turner, A B]

Chapter 10 Only a matter of hours later, I was in a taxi fast approaching the hotel, as we got nearer, the butterflies in my stomach seemed to have given ...
( Category: Ecology September 5,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-06-10 | Author:Donna Michaels

The conversation turned to the debate of colored tattoos versus black ones, and Mel was more than happy to change the focus from her to a more general subject. Two ...
( Category: Language Arts September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Tatiana Schlossberg

Fast Fashion, but Going Nowhere Consider, if you will, the fashion industry. Take the cotton fibers woven together into a tight denim sausage casing for your leg (thank you to ...
( Category: Environmental Policy August 31,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-08-21 | Author:Joe Vogel

Indicator species Since we need to assess water quality quickly and safely independent of location, we will examine some fairly stenecious animals that occur globally, are easy to identify, and ...
( Category: Green Housecleaning August 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-18 | Author:Howard Mansfield

A stranger has come to town. He has suitcases full of money. He wants your land. Will you sell? Does everyone have a price? Is everything for sale—every last piece ...
( Category: Anthologies August 11,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:Stephen Harrod Buhner [Buhner, Stephen Harrod]

Plant pollen also contributes significantly to the chemistry and formation of soil. Each year millions of pounds of pollen are released to the Earth’s ecosystems. Wind-pollinated plants such as grasses, ...
( Category: Environmental Science August 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Smedley

Beijing’s Olympian feat In the spring of 2014, China’s President Xi Jinping stepped outside for a photoshoot in the smog. Chinese anthologist Jerry Zee later described its significance as a ...
( Category: Conservation August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-25 | Author:Vaclav Smil [Smil, Vaclav]

Figure 5.3 Futtsu power station and LNG terminal, Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). Gas combustion in large boilers of central power plants has been eclipsed by burning in gas ...
( Category: Environmental Science August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mann, Charles C. [Mann, Charles C.]

The Ouachita mounds as they may have appeared at their creation, 5,400 years ago. Because modern-day hunter-gatherers in Africa live in egalitarian bands that constantly move from place to place, ...
( Category: Scientists July 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Gernot Wagner

Epilogue A Different Kind of Optimism The evidence is overwhelming: levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are rising. Temperatures are going up. Springs are arriving earlier. Ice sheets are ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-05 | Author:Andrew Blum

Part III Simulation 7 The Mountaintop The heat in Colorado was a dry mountain heat, broken in the afternoons by wild thunderstorms that rose up behind the Rocky Mountains. On ...
( Category: History of Technology June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Andrew Blum

Part III Simulation 7 The Mountaintop The heat in Colorado was a dry mountain heat, broken in the afternoons by wild thunderstorms that rose up behind the Rocky Mountains. On ...
( Category: History of Technology June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-16 | Author:Heather Houser

He’d smoke his way through thirty high-grade grams [of marijuana] a day … an insane and deliberately unpleasant amount…. But he would force himself to do it anyway. He would ...
( Category: United States June 16,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-27 | Author:Vandana Shiva

CHAPTER FOUR The World Bank, the WTO, and Corporate Control Over Water Giant water projects, in most cases, benefit the powerful and dispossess the weak. Even when such projects are ...
( Category: Environmental May 27,2019 )