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 |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Martenson, Chris [Martenson, Chris]

Figure 16.8 indicates that even a historically modest 4 percent rate of global growth would require an advance from the 84.4 mbd (million barrels per day) in 2009 to 89.1 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Elizabeth Royte

A lot can go wrong with your home’s plumbing, but even more goes wrong in the streets. Every year, according to the American Water Works Association, between 250,000 and 300,000 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

Warden Guy Bradley was murdered in Florida for trying to protect bird rookeries from plume hunters. Warden Guy Bradley. (Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The National Association of ...

mobi |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Robert Sullivan

THE REVIEWER OF A WEEK who perhaps most upset him was Emerson. Emerson had praised the book to Thoreau in person. Eventually, Thoreau realized that Emerson was not being honest ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-09-23 | Author:Sebastian Junger

GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC In a few days the El Dorado expedition went into the patient wilderness, that closed upon it like the sea closes over a diver. Long afterwards ...

mobi |eng | 2008-05-15 | Author:Barbara Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp; Camille Kingsolver

Our turkeys were looking gorgeous after their awkward adolescent molt into adult plumage. Bourbon Reds are as handsome as it gets on the turkey runway, with chestnut-red bodies, white wings, ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Russell Foster

8 TIMING REPRODUCTION IN HUMANS In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin’s breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a ...

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, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Heidi Cullen [Cullen, Heidi]

In any case, Erik the Red must have been a good pitchman, because in 985 he led a fleet of twenty-five Viking longships to settle two new colonies on Greenland. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Parker, Geoffrey [Parker, Geoffrey]

16 Getting it Right: Early Tokugawa Japan1 The Pax Tokugawa EARLY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, THE FOREMOST JAPANESE CHRONICLER of his day rejoiced that ‘In this age, there are none ...

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 |eng | 2013-07-08 | Author:Margaret M. Wittenberg [Wittenberg, Margaret M.]

Exploring Beans and Peas Given the immeasurable number of bean varieties available, including those that have a limited regional availability, no book could possibly ever catalog every bean known to ...