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50 Green Projects for the Evil Genius by Shariff Jamil
epub |eng | 2009-08-16 | Author:Shariff, Jamil

• www.activepower.com—a commercial non-chemical, battery-based uninterruptible power supply that uses stored heat to improve the air pressure conversion efficiency. • quasiturbine.promci.qc.ca—an innovative engine that runs off of compressed air without ...
( Category: Sustainable Living August 16,2017 )
Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care) by William Marsden
epub |eng | 2010-05-28 | Author:William Marsden [Marsden, William]

Bribery is another method Alberta has for dealing with the opposition. In 2005, Alberta tried to buy off Quebec. Quebec’s hydroelectric energy dams make the province the cleanest economy in ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 15,2017 )
The Poetic Species by Edward Wilson Robert Hass Lee Briccetti
epub |eng | | Author:Edward Wilson, Robert Hass, Lee Briccetti [Wilson, Edward O; Hass, Robert; Briccetti, Lee]

APPENDIX A short list of great classic literary works of science or nature writing and what these books in particular reveal about our evolving attitudes toward science Robert Hass: You ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 15,2017 )
A Perfect Time for Pandas by Mary Pope Osborne
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne [Osborne, Mary Pope]

CHAPTER SEVEN Jack the Giant Jack felt as if someone was gripping his head—and pulling him up, and up, and up! He looked down and watched his arms and hands ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 15,2017 )
The Complete Mushroom Hunter: An Illustrated Guide to Finding, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms by Lincoff Gary
epub |eng | 2011-01-19 | Author:Lincoff, Gary [Lincoff, Gary]

Eating Lobster Mushrooms It is imperative to clean lobster mushrooms thoroughly before cooking. They are best used in soups and are also good grilled. The best way to preserve them ...
( Category: Cooking by Ingredient August 15,2017 )
Bird Sense by Tim Birkhead
epub |eng | 2012-01-11 | Author:Tim Birkhead

In 1989, Jack Dumbacher, a PhD student at the University of Chicago, made a remarkable discovery: he found the world’s first distasteful bird. Jack was studying Raggiana birds of paradise ...
( Category: Field Guides August 15,2017 )
Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
epub |eng | 2014-06-13 | Author:Henry Williamson

Chapter Twelve AT SUNSET, as he was crossing a shoal to deep water under an old ash tree, he stopped at the taint of hounds lying on the scour pitted ...
( Category: Biological Sciences August 15,2017 )
Piano Tide by Kathleen Dean Moore
epub |eng | 2016-10-15 | Author:Kathleen Dean Moore

THE BEAR BOLTED out of the trap through the door into the cistern, then braced to a stop, swinging her great head and stumbling over her cub, he was that ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 15,2017 )
Wild Comfort by Kathleen Dean Moore
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Kathleen Dean Moore

Things with Feathers I was drinking tea with Hank’s family in their southeast Alaskan cabin, when a bird flew against the window. We heard the thud and looked up in ...
( Category: Death & Grief August 15,2017 )
A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Merritt

Nor did a lot of other birders. Peregrines carried on quietly but steadily building up their numbers in their strongholds, until they reached the point at which the young birds ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 15,2017 )
Encounters with Animals by Gerald Durrell
epub |eng | 2012-08-06 | Author:Gerald Durrell [Durrell, Gerald]

I suppose it must have been about a year later I was talking to a lady who had travelled on the same ship with the same captain. ‘Wasn’t he a ...
( Category: Biological Sciences August 15,2017 )
The Aye-Aye and I by Gerald Durrell
epub |eng | 2012-08-02 | Author:Gerald Durrell [Durrell, Gerald]

Chapter Six Crystal Country and Beyond We left early the next morning and, although it seemed impossible, the road got worse. Flurries of huge stones sent us sliding into the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 15,2017 )
The Ark's Anniversary by Gerald Durrell
epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Gerald Durrell

The Jigsaw Strategy Over the years, Jeremy has always referred to the Trust’s multifaceted approach to captive breeding for conservation and, although we tend to pull his leg over this ...
( Category: Biological Sciences August 15,2017 )
Alan the Christmas Donkey by Tracy Garton
epub |eng | | Author:Tracy Garton [Tracy Garton with Danielle Hoffman]

10 In Too Deep It’s a cliché, but the good old British weather really is unpredictable. It certainly keeps us on our toes. One day we’re preparing for a scorching ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 15,2017 )
Letters to my Grandchildren by David Suzuki
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:David Suzuki

mammals—5,487 birds—9,990 reptiles—8,734 amphibians—6,515 fish—31,153 In contrast, the number of identified insect species is more than a million.3 Scouring the literature, Wilson calculated that about 1.5 million species have actually ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 15,2017 )

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