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The Little Book of Going Green by Harriet Dyer
epub |eng | 2019-02-04 | Author:Harriet Dyer

INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE AND ENERGY—DAMAGE AND DEMAND The food supply industry, from farm to supermarket, is one of the biggest users of fossil fuels, accounting for 20 percent of human-generated greenhouse ...
( Category: Conservation March 10,2020 )
Primer of Ecological Restoration by Dr. Karen Holl
epub |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Dr. Karen Holl

Biological Control Biological control agents have been used successfully to control invasive species in some cases. For instance, sterile grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) have been introduced to lakes to consume ...
( Category: Ecology March 10,2020 )
Bat Basics by Karen Krebbs
epub |eng | 2019-03-09 | Author:Karen Krebbs

RANGE: Southern Ontario, Canada, and most of the eastern U.S. HABITAT, ROOSTS, AND MIGRATION: Evening bats live in tree cavities; behind loose tree bark; and in hollow trees, man-made structures, ...
( Category: Mammals March 10,2020 )
New Guinea by Bruce M. Beehler;Tim Laman;
epub |eng | 2020-01-30 | Author:Bruce M. Beehler;Tim Laman;

A male Lesser Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea minor) displays in a lowland rainforest near Oransbari, WNG. This species typically displays in a communal lek of two or more males in ...
( Category: Plants & Animals March 9,2020 )
Mortal Sea : Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail (9780674070462) by Bolster W. Jeffrey
epub |eng | | Author:Bolster, W. Jeffrey [Bolster, W. Jeffrey]

CLOSE TIME FOR MACKEREL? Common wisdom during the nineteenth century was that mackerel’s abundance “varied greatly from year to year.” Sometimes, as one expert put it, “their numbers have been ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture March 9,2020 )
Outsmart Waste by Tom Szaky
epub |eng | 2014-03-08 | Author:Tom Szaky

Leave Your Assumptions at the Door The best way to wrap your head around upcycling is to stop looking at objects as waste. Take a tip from nature and look ...
( Category: Environmental March 9,2020 )
The Environmental Capitalists by Making Billions
epub |eng | 2014-03-08 | Author:Making Billions

CHAPTER 9. One day I received a very strange request from a friend. Would I agree to be interviewed by an Irish journalist making a documentary about a new concept ...
( Category: Conservation March 9,2020 )
The Breath of a Whale by Leigh Calvez
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Leigh Calvez

* * * It was midwinter in Puget Sound when a small black dorsal fin broke the surface. The event went unnoticed. Surrounded by unfamiliar waters, a young orca continued ...
( Category: Marine Life March 9,2020 )
Water in Texas by Andrew Sansom
epub |eng | 2013-02-27 | Author:Andrew Sansom

National Nonprofit Conservation Organizations American Rivers: This organization is dedicated to protecting and restoring rivers to benefit humans, fish, and wildlife. Each year the group identifies the ten most endangered ...
( Category: Canoeing March 8,2020 )
365 Ways to Live Green by Diane Gow McDilda
epub |eng | 2012-05-23 | Author:Diane Gow McDilda

You can also look to club soda or seltzer water. Seltzer water is filtered water that's been carbonated. Club soda is water that's had minerals and mineral salts added to ...
( Category: Home Repair March 8,2020 )
The Bluefin Tuna Fishery in the Bay of Biscay by José Luis Cort & Pablo Abaunza
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:José Luis Cort & Pablo Abaunza

5.1.3.3 Session 3: Tuna Traps as a Reliable Scientific Observatory for Bluefin Tuna Stocks Six presentations were given during this session. They presented results of scientific value obtained from a ...
( Category: Ichthyology March 8,2020 )
Organic Manifesto by Maria Rodale
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Maria Rodale

GOVERNMENT AS USUAL I recently had the honor of meeting Tom Vilsack, President Barack Obama's secretary of agriculture, at a forum on the People's Garden Initiative. Vilsack made the very ...
( Category: Organic March 8,2020 )
Whose Water Is It, Anyway? by Maude Barlow
epub |eng | 2019-09-03 | Author:Maude Barlow

The first Blue Communities Concerned about the government promotion of P3s in the fall of 2009, the Council of Canadians and CUPE held a Canada-wide gathering called the Blue Summit. ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 8,2020 )
Reef Life by Roberts Callum
epub |eng | | Author:Roberts, Callum

1. Access by sea is very easy in one of the dozens of tourist boats that go there every day. CHAPTER TEN The aftermath of war Arabian Gulf, 1992 SOON ...
( Category: Coral Reefs Ecosystems March 7,2020 )
Slow Violence by Rob Nixon
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Rob Nixon

Roy thus turns to the essay as a form that, in temporal and sensory terms, holds the promise of the immediate, of a quick, inhabited retort to the unimaginable—and unimaginative—culture ...
( Category: Conservation March 7,2020 )

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