Environmentalism
epub |eng | | Author:Diane Ackerman

WEIGHING IN THE NANOSCALE We’re not just seeing invisibles; we’re engineering things on a minute, invisible-to-the-eye scale. “Nano,” which means “dwarf” in Greek, applies to things one-billionth of a meter ...
( Category: Natural History August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:Jerry Apps

Pond Magic While men believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought to be bottomless. HENRY DAVID THOREAU We are lucky to have two ponds at Roshara, one entirely ...
( Category: United States August 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bryce Andrews

7 Reaping When grizzly cubs lose their mother, they lose everything. The milk that they have depended on is gone, and just as damaging is the loss of a sow’s ...
( Category: Bears August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:Jude Isabella

CHAPTER FIVE Life, Anthropology and Everything They seemed to live on remembered things, to be so related to the seashore and the rocky hills and the loneliness that they are ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roland Kupers

Locked In before You Know It The early success of Tesla illustrates how incumbent car companies are unlikely to succeed at electric cars. Sure, it may be too early to ...
( Category: Environmental Policy August 1,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-10-29 | Author:Kate Bradbury

6. BAT Bats are the only flying mammals. They can see, but echolocate to fly and feed at night, sending out shouts and listening to the returning echoes to create ...
( Category: Wildlife July 31,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Murray Maclean

The leaves of the mountain ash. Taller Trees Sycamore (Acer psuedoplatanus): A fast-growing tree that will develop a fine domed canopy in maturity. It will grow to a height of ...
( Category: Conservation July 31,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Beyond Mammoth Cave- A Tale of Obsession in the World's Longest Cave (epub)

Don smiled. “How was your trip? Find much?” Pete looked exhausted. “We didn’t make it to the wet lead—forgot the Mylar notebook.” “So where did you go?” “Where else? We ...
( Category: Conservation July 31,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-14 | Author:Mark Harris

Even without an exact street address, it’s hard to miss Reef Innovations. One of a handful of contractors licensed to produce reef balls, the company cures its marine modules outdoors, ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement July 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-06 | Author:Vaclav Smil [Smil, Vaclav]

5 Populations, Societies, Economies: or growth of the most complex assemblies Terms always need clarifying in order to avoid misunderstandings and ambiguities. This book deals with nothing but the growth ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-09 | Author:Paul Hawken [Hawken, Paul]

Sustainable Agriculture (3,349): Sustainable agriculture and farming is the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock that is economically viable, socially responsible, and ecologically ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Wilson, Edward O.;

*E. O. Wilson and W. L. Brown, “The Subspecies Concept and Its Taxonomic Application,” Systematic Zoology 2(3) (1953): 97–111. *W. L. Brown and E. O. Wilson, “Character Displacement,” Systematic Zoology ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists July 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sharon Kallis [Kallis, Sharon]

Fig. 7.3: Todd Devries (Giihlgiigaa) shares stories about weaving and culture at Means of Production Garden. LORI WEIDENHAMMER And to be clear, just because I learn from a Haida weaver ...
( Category: Nature Crafts July 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-26 | Author:Stephen Leahy

The global average water footprint of whole cow’s milk is about 940 liters (248 gallons) for every kilogram (2 pounds). Butter derived from whole milk accounts for about 28% of ...
( Category: Natural Resources July 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-29 | Author:Dolly Jorgensen

Loss and grief for the pigeon were on Leopold’s mind. But his grieving was not for specific dead pigeons, individuals who had been trapped or shot or swatted down with ...
( Category: Environmentalism July 24,2020 )