mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Coyle, Diane [Coyle, Diane]

CONCLUSION High trust is essential to the kind of economy we have now, but at the same time fragile. Building social capital needs more careful attention; future prosperity will depend ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Brown, Lester R. [Brown, Lester R.]

* * * Data, endnotes, and additional resources can be found on Earth Policy’s Web site, at www.earth-policy.org. * * * 9 Harnessing Wind, Solar, and Geothermal Energy As fossil ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Elizabeth Royte

A lot can go wrong with your home’s plumbing, but even more goes wrong in the streets. Every year, according to the American Water Works Association, between 250,000 and 300,000 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

Warden Guy Bradley was murdered in Florida for trying to protect bird rookeries from plume hunters. Warden Guy Bradley. (Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The National Association of ...

mobi |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Robert Sullivan

THE REVIEWER OF A WEEK who perhaps most upset him was Emerson. Emerson had praised the book to Thoreau in person. Eventually, Thoreau realized that Emerson was not being honest ...

mobi |eng | 2008-05-15 | Author:Barbara Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp; Camille Kingsolver

Our turkeys were looking gorgeous after their awkward adolescent molt into adult plumage. Bourbon Reds are as handsome as it gets on the turkey runway, with chestnut-red bodies, white wings, ...

epub |eng | 2007-02-26 | Author:Maude Barlow [Barlow, Maude]

Ecuador On March 1, 2007, the mayor of Quito, Ecuador’s capital, announced he had halted plans to privatize the city’s water, plans that had been seriously underway for four years. ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Editors of Green Guide

* * * Another perc alternative uses liquid carbon dioxide (CO2), also used for decaffeinating coffee, which has no reported adverse health risks. In this process, developed by a private ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-11 | Author:Maude Barlow

BRAZIL IN THE LEAD Brazil and the United States produce almost 90 percent of the world’s biofuels. Brazil is the leading manufacturer and exporter of sugarcane ethanol, and most cars ...

epub |eng | 2005-03-24 | Author:de Graaf John

WEALTH AS DISPOSABLE TIME Neither would “an enforced equality of wages,” made law by a socialist government, lead to happiness, which, Marx believed, was to be found instead in our ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Alan Weisman [WEISMAN, ALAN]

In the village of Ahmed Khan Zour, fifty kilometers farther north, a HANDS theater troupe is giving its 640th performance. More than one hundred women in bright salwar kameez and ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Stephen Emmott [Emmott, Stephen]

The global carbon cycle is absolutely critical to the ability of us, and almost every other species on Earth, to survive on this planet. We are now radically changing every ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:Rupert Darwall [Darwall, Rupert]

The Buenos Aires COP4 was held in the first two weeks of November 1998. It adopted the Buenos Aires Plan of Action to put flesh on the bones of the ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-01-29 | Author:Ian McCallum

wishful thinking. Whilst it is impossible to participate in our own fate without a deep sense of awe and gratitude for the forces of creation and evolution, it is important ...