Environment
epub |eng | 2002-09-10 | Author:Marilee Foster

PART OF BEING YOUNG AND FEARLESS on a farm was taking advantage of its architecture. A huge, rickety barn with crumbling lean-tos that once occupied most of our backyard was ...
( Category: Regional U.S September 10,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Kristen Iversen [Iversen, Kristen]

THE INCINERATOR at our little old house in Arvada is long gone and turned into a garden planter by the new owners. We don’t have an incinerator at the house ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tony Bradman [Bradman, Tony]

Translator: We scientists will be here for only a few months. But we want to support you in Siberia to take responsibility for understanding the climate alteration that affects your ...
( Category: Science, Nature & How It Works September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-07 | Author:Lucinda Fleeson

CHAPTER FIFTEEN A Walk on Mahaulepu — Deconstructing Extinction WHENEVER IN NEED of a restoration of the spirit, I drove to Mahaulepu, the stretch of deserted white sand I deemed ...
( Category: Gardening & Landscape Design September 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-06 | Author:Ellen Meloy [Meloy, Ellen]

BROOM RIDING In the painting on the wall, the mountain sheep peered down from an alpine slope flooded in a golden syrup of Bierstadt light. Contemporary western wildlife art seems ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-06 | Author:Helen Caldicott

Although China is now the number one consumer of fertilizer, using more than 40 million tons in 2004, the average American uses an estimated 530,000 gallons (about 2 million liters) ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Michael Tennesen [Tennesen, Michael]

With ocean acidification, we may be harming the environment less purposefully than by overfishing, but the two combined are a bombshell to our present-day marine environments. It’s amazing to consider, ...
( Category: Evolution September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-12 | Author:Wade Davis

FROM THE START, I pursued two avenues of research. To satisfy Kline and his colleagues, I sought to document the elaboration of the poison, in the hope of identifying a ...
( Category: Anthropology September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:Dr. Richard Oppenlander

CHAPTER IX Tread Lightly Entering the no-wake zone “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” —Daniel J. Boorstin GLOBAL DEPLETION IN SOME FORM ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-06-28 | Author:Krishnamurti [Krishnamurti]

Brockwood Park, 10 September 1970 WE REALIZE THERE is a division in life, in me, in you. The you and me are many fragments. Oneself is made up of many ...
( Category: Philosophy September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Steve Thayer [Thayer, Steve]

THE VISIT Ramsey County Adult Detention Center-2 West, D Pod, Cell 340. Dixon Bell sat alone on his bunk, staring out the window at the sunny weather above the muddy ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Annie Leonard [Leonard, Annie]

The New Economics Foundation, the think tank that produces the annual Happy Planet Index, explains that “it is possible to live long, happy lives with a much smaller ecological footprint ...
( Category: Environment September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Geoff Rodkey [Rodkey, Geoff]

PIGS My first impression of being dead was that it was awfully loud. There were screams and shrieks and great blasts of noise and chaos, and when I opened my ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures September 3,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-02-22 | Author:Anyi, Wang [Anyi, Wang]

Sasha Sasha was a half-breed child of the revolution—a product of the Comintern. He was by right one of the city’s new masters, but his heart had no home here. ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 2,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:William Stolzenburg

In 2003, Ripple and Beschta went to press with their first Yellowstone collaboration, delving more deeply into the beginnings of the willow’s and cottonwood’s recovery and honing their case for ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 1,2017 )