Environment
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Andy Sharpless

TWO GREAT RIVERS zigzag to the Bering Sea from the mountains across Alaska’s western tundra. The Yukon and the Kuskokwim snake for thousands of switchbacked miles across a permafrost where ...
( Category: Engineering April 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-28 | Author:Oliver, Kelly;

Russia and America, seen metaphysically, are both the same: the same hopeless frenzy of unchained technology and of the rootless organization of the average man. When the farthest corner of ...
( Category: Philosophy April 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Monbiot

The Distributive Economy Though it has been discussed for centuries, a universal basic income (UBI) was treated until recently as a marginal and outlandish idea. UBI is an income paid ...
( Category: Anthropology April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-16 | Author:Jonathan Bloom

Judging a Food by Its Cover Packaging also causes problems with hard (or “dry”) groceries. Damage to a box or container often means goods are thrown away, even though the ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Susan J. Buck

Suggested Reading Grotius, Hugo. Freedom of the Seas, or The Right Which Belongs to the Dutch to Take Part in the East Indian Trade (Mare Liberum) (1608), trans. Ralph Van ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Daniel Wahl [Wahl, Daniel]

Collective visioning and design conversations change culture Vision without action is useless. But action without vision does not know where to go or why to go there. Vision is absolutely ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-16 | Author:Garth W. Paltridge [Paltridge, Garth W.]

A Couple of Bottom Lines In the early days of the global warming business there was a reasonably sensible attitude around the traps to the effect that, in view of ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 15,2018 )
epub | | 2012-04-15 | Author:Beth Terry

Bottom line Let's refuse disposable products of all types whenever possible and opt for bio-based alternatives when disposables can't be avoided. The point is to realize that we have choices ...
( Category: Sustainable Living April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Martin Blank, PhD

Objective No. 2: To lift the cigarette from the cancer identification as quickly as possible and restore it to its proper place of dignity and acceptance in the minds of ...
( Category: Physics April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:Fred Pearce

CHAPTER 8 MYTHS OF THE PRISTINE Take a journey up the Amazon and you are soon floating past riverbanks festooned with primeval rain forest unchanged for millions of years. So ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-14 | Author:J. A. Mills

Tiger farming has proven to be a divisive issue and one that has distracted many in the conservation community from the common goal of saving wild tigers. . . . ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Edward L. McCord

SIX Free Market Environmentalism Places Profits Above the Public Interest It may be tempting to conclude that the only way to rescue the earth’s living heritage from competition with money ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edward O. Wilson [Wilson, Edward O; Hass, Robert; Briccetti, Lee]

APPENDIX A short list of great classic literary works of science or nature writing and what these books in particular reveal about our evolving attitudes toward science Robert Hass: You ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 14,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:Maggie Koerth-Baker [Koerth-Baker, Maggie]

Conservation is solely about using less energy. Efficiency is about using less energy, while still being every bit as productive as you were before. Turn off a 60-watt incandescent lightbulb ...
( Category: Engineering April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Bates, Albert

19 Compost MIDWAY THROUGH THE FIRST CENTURY of the current era, the Roman naturalist Palladius referred to goose droppings being turned into a soil amendment called “laetamen.” A little later, ...
( Category: Engineering April 14,2018 )