Environment
epub |eng | 2007-10-30 | Author:Jacques Cousteau & Susan Schiefelbein [Cousteau, Jacques & Schiefelbein, Susan]

CHAPTER EIGHT SCIENCE AND HUMAN VALUES I always wondered what lies under the sea—not under the surface of the sea, in the water, but under the water, under the sands ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Bill Mckibben [Mckibben, Bill]

When my wife and daughter and I left the Adirondacks, we moved about fifty miles to the other side of Lake Champlain and the quite different state of Vermont. Different ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Martin Keogh [Keogh, Martin]

Chameli Ardagh is one of the world’s leading pioneers on contemporary feminine spirituality. She is the director, founder, and senior teacher with the Awakening Women Institute. She is the initiator ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Judith A. Carney & Richard Nicholas Rosomoff [Carney, Judith A. & Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas]

NINE African Animals and Grasses in the New World Tropics The number of sheep in the Americas eventually became immense, but they were slower to adapt than most of the ...
( Category: Sociology June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:George B. Schaller

My projects in the 1960s on gorillas, tigers, and lions had been conducted in national parks, which in spite of various problems had a measure of security, but they had, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Climate Central [Central, Climate]

37 Arctic Sea Ice Has Been on a Mostly Downward Spiral for the Past Thirty Years. Every summer above the Arctic Circle, the sun rises relatively high in the sky ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Mike Berners-Lee [Berners-Lee, Mike]

The machine itself Even before you turn it on, a new iMac has the same footprint as flying from Glasgow to Madrid and back. Apple has carried out a detailed ...
( Category: Earth Sciences June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:The Union of Concerned Scientists

ASK THE EXPERTS Does Wood Harvested Sustainably Really Make a Difference? Most of us use wood products every day and purchase more than we realize. Of course, furniture and many ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-04 | Author:Stanley A. Rice [Stanley A. Rice]

Edaphic Conditions Edaphic conditions refer to the material in which a plant grows, usually but not always soil. It can also refer to rocks on which plants grow or the ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Charles Eisenstein [Eisenstein, Charles]

THE DEBT CRISIS: OPPORTUNITY FOR TRANSITION A golden opportunity to transition to negative-interest money may be nigh in the form of the “debt bomb” that nearly brought down the global ...
( Category: Economics June 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-27 | Author:Robert Swan & Gil Reavill

Icewalk Fifteen minutes of fame is short. The media glare shone brightly upon In the Footsteps of Scott, illuminated us for a brief moment, then winked out. But people remembered. ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics June 13,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Chris Goodall [Goodall, Chris]

6 ELECTRIC CARS The inevitable switch to battery propulsion IN 0CTOBER 2007, the Israeli-born Californian software engineer Shai Agassi announced a plan to accelerate the move to the all-electric car. ...
( Category: Engineering June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Sean Esbjorn-Hargens & Michael E. Zimmerman [Esbjorn-Hargens, Sean & Zimmerman, Michael E.]

To truly engage with inhabitants in community-directed work, the development practitioner must be able to “meet people where they are,” in terms of both their value systems and their ways ...
( Category: Philosophy June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Subhankar Banerjee

Red Dog Mine—the second largest zinc and fourth largest lead mine in the world, Western Arctic, Alaska. (Photograph by Florian Schulz, 2009.) Sadly, that too is already twenty years ago. ...
( Category: Photography & Video June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Alexandra Zissu [Zissu, Alexandra]

BEER Because the various ingredients that go into beer come from many different places, it reminds me more of packaged food than of wine. Consider ingredient sourcing, water usage, bottling, ...
( Category: Sustainable Living June 13,2017 )