Environmentalism
epub |eng | | Author:William Powers

ONE EVENING, while I’m picking up some kimchi at the Korean grocer’s around the corner from our apartment, a pair of bar-hopping young women come in behind me. One of ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Margo T Oge

PART THREE IMAGINING TOMORROW 14 THE “FOUR WHEELS” DRIVING THE CAR OF THE FUTURE In December of 2009, just seven months after President Obama had announced the first US action ...
( Category: Fuel Systems April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bram Buscher & Robert Fletcher

RADICAL DIFFERENCES? One crucial point about dealing with ‘radical differences’ is that in doing so, we are taken far beyond (already complex) differences between scientific traditions and disciplines. Perhaps, even ...
( Category: History & Theory April 10,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Marie Mutsuki Mockett [Mockett, Marie Mutsuki]

Eric’s son Winston once sent me an email asking if in the city, babies play with cups and bibs emblazoned with taxis and skyscrapers; he had noticed that his soon-to-be-born ...
( Category: Science & Religion April 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-14 | Author:Brian Eyler;

In response to concerns raised both locally and internationally, Laos’s Ministry of Energy and Mines produced a fact sheet called “Don Sahong Made Simple: Questions and Answers about the Don ...
( Category: Asian April 7,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-24 | Author:Timothy Morton [Morton, Timothy]

QUEER DUCKS These questions extend Turing’s proposition that if a machine walks like a mind and quacks like a mind, it might as well be one.107 The uncanny and uncertainty ...
( Category: Ecology April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Robert William Sandford

Chapter Seven Wisdom in an age of climate crisis “Point your toes, Herb,” you can hear him saying, “we are going in deep.” — Jan Zwicky Michelle Atterby, a colleague ...
( Category: Climatology April 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Richard Broinowski

Chapter Seven Nuclear Nations THE CATASTROPHE AT Fukushima generated immediate environmental concern. Japan was offered technical advice about containing the situation from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Meteorological ...
( Category: Energy Production & Extraction March 31,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Jaquette Ray

Compassion—Self-Preserving and Respectful Neuroscientists such as Tania Singer have shown that empathizing with someone in distress lights up parts of the brain associated with pain, while compassion lights up parts ...
( Category: Climatology March 31,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Fred Guterl

As an undergraduate at Swarthmore, David Baltimore changed his major from biology to chemistry in part because he was less interested in birds and ecosystems than in what was going ...
( Category: Environmental Science March 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Reitz [Reitz, Charles]

Marx also quite famously connected the human labor process with human insight into forms of the ideal, even an aesthetic ideal: A spider conducts operations which resemble those of the ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Caldicott [Caldicott, Helen]

MICHAEL T. KLARE Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at the Five Colleges, Inc.: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and ...
( Category: Conservation March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Wayne C. Weeks [Weeks, Wayne C.]

10.COSMIC RAYS Henrik Svensmark proposed that the Sun’s fluctuating magnetic field caused a change in the flux of incoming cosmic rays from the outer space. The Sun’s magnetic field which ...
( Category: Conservation March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-24 | Author:Daniel Butler

( Category: Trees March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Christopher J. Preston [Preston, Christopher]

• • • The nineteenth-century English political philosopher John Stuart Mill once suggested two different ways of thinking about the word nature. One is to suppose that the term designates ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 24,2020 )