mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Hansen, James [Hansen, James]

IN 2007, THE ENVIRONMENTALIST AND writer Bill McKibben began bugging me, very politely, to either confirm 450 parts per million as the appropriate target level of carbon dioxide in the ...

mobi |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:James Hansen

I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that ...

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 |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 |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:Rachel Carson

18 [1953] The Edge of the Sea THIS PAPER, given the same title as her forthcoming book, was presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium, “The ...

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

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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, 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 | 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 | 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, epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Erik Larson

BOLIVAR POINT The Lost Train ABOUT NOON ON Saturday, two trains converged on Galveston, one from the north, the other from the east. The first train belonged to the Galveston, ...

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 |eng | | Author:Pelling, Mark [Pelling, Mark]

Conclusion The aim of this chapter has been to make a claim for transformation as a legitimate element of adaptation theory and practice. In doing so the challenges of escaping ...

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 |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Michelle Williams

TWENTY-SIX One early afternoon after lunch, which was a soggy sandwich from the canteen, the doorbell had rung and, after the usual banter between Clive and the undertaker, what lay ...