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Where Our Food Comes From by Gary Paul Nabhan
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Paul Nabhan

CHAPTER EIGHT Apples and Boomtown Growth: Kazakhstan The fragrance of the Kazakh forest was unlike any I have ever known, for the pervasive smell of ripening and rotting apples and ...
( Category: Scientists March 23,2020 )
Sustainable Compromises by Alan Boye
epub |eng | 2014-02-12 | Author:Alan Boye [Alan Boye]

11. The Straw That Broke The When Harold showed up a couple of days later, he got down on his knees and spit on the concrete. He took out a ...
( Category: Sustainability & Green Design March 23,2020 )
An Enduring Wilderness by Robert Burley
epub |eng | 2017-05-09 | Author:Robert Burley

This approach gained official sanction as part of the Toronto Parks Plan 201 3–2017, adopted by council in 2013. The plan included recommendations such as implementing a program to strengthen ...
( Category: Landscapes March 23,2020 )
The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Policy by
mobi |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:

For further discussion of “transferable development rights” (TDRs), see Chapter 27 in this volume. 27 A Market Approach to Land Preservation Elizabeth Kopits, Virginia McConnell, and Margaret Walls As more ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 23,2020 )
Superstorm by Kathryn Miles
epub |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:Kathryn Miles

SANDY IS FORECAST TO BE A LARGE CYCLONE AT OR NEAR HURRICANE INTENSITY THROUGH THE END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. That’s what John Svendsen most remembers about the forecast advisory ...
( Category: Atmospheric Sciences March 23,2020 )
A Perfect Moral Storm by Gardiner Stephen M
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Gardiner, Stephen M.

VIII. THE “ANYTHING GOES” ARGUMENT Before closing, I want briefly to mention one last argument for CBA that seems implicit in the attitudes of many of its proponents, and which ...
( Category: Modern March 23,2020 )
Under an Ionized Sky: From Chemtrails to Space Fence Lockdown by Elana Freeland
epub |eng | 2018-02-13 | Author:Elana Freeland [Freeland, Elana]

Something unexpected is happening on the sun. 2013 is supposed to be the year of Solar Max, the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle. Yet 2013 has arrived and solar ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 23,2020 )
Radical Ecology by Merchant Carolyn;
epub |eng | | Author:Merchant, Carolyn;

Figure 6.1 Marxist Framework of Social Analysis Source: Howard Sherman, Foundations of Radical Political Economy (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1987), 44, reprinted by permission. ANARCHIST SOCIAL ECOLOGY Current theories of ...
( Category: Human Geography March 23,2020 )
The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd by Beresford Quentin
epub |eng | | Author:Beresford, Quentin

8 Done deal? At 1 pm on 14 March 2007, Gunns issued a press release stating its intention to withdraw the pulp mill project from the Resource Planning and Development ...
( Category: Industrial Relations March 22,2020 )
Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything by Patrick J. Michaels & Paul C. Knappenberger
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Patrick J. Michaels & Paul C. Knappenberger [Michaels, Patrick J. & Knappenberger, Paul C.]

Typically, a doubling of the air ’s CO2 content above present-day concentrations raises the productivity of most herbaceous plants by about one-third; this positive response occurs in plants that utilize ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 22,2020 )
Cracking the AP Environmental Science Exam, 2013 Edition by Princeton Review
epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Princeton Review [Review, The Princeton]

SMOG As you might be aware, the setting for many of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries was the foggy, smoggy city of London. The smog that covered London throughout the nineteenth ...
( Category: Advanced Placement March 22,2020 )
The Next Species by Michael Tennesen
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Tennesen

11 PREDATORS WILL SCRAMBLE OVER THE LAST 600 million years, during most of the extinction events, predators were the last to go. During the Cretaceous extinction, which knocked out the ...
( Category: Natural History March 22,2020 )
Emplotting Virtue by Treanor Brian
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Treanor, Brian

Poetic Justice The fourth ethical power of the literary form that Nussbaum finds aligned with the Aristotelian ethical view, the ethical relevance of emotions, is addressed in depth in Poetic ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality March 22,2020 )
The West without Water by B. Lynn Ingram
epub |eng | | Author:B. Lynn Ingram

FIGURE 25. An ancient tree stump submerged in the West Walker River, eastern Sierra Nevada. (Photo courtesy of D. J. DePaolo, University of California, Berkeley.) By counting the annual growth ...
( Category: Weather March 22,2020 )
Seven Modern Plagues by Mark Jerome Walters
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Jerome Walters

2. The Colorado Plateau, which stretches across 130,000 square miles of southeastern Utah, northern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and western Colorado, has seen more rain and snow during the past ...
( Category: Medicine March 22,2020 )

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