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Big World, Small Planet by Johan Rockström & Mattias Klum
epub |eng | 2015-08-19 | Author:Johan Rockström & Mattias Klum

Economic Benefits from Wise Management of Ecosystems Wise management of ecosystems gives economic benefits. There are ample examples today showing that when we value, even at a conservative level, the ...
( Category: Conservation August 20,2016 )
Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies by Calestous Juma
epub |eng | 2016-06-05 | Author:Calestous Juma [Juma, Calestous]

Calling the Tune The emergence of recorded music drastically changed the music landscape. Sound recording democratized music and made listening more convenient. But it threatened the employment of live musicians ...
( Category: Environmental Policy August 19,2016 )
Backyard Woodland by Josh VanBrakle
epub |eng | 2016-08-02 | Author:Josh VanBrakle

Insecticide treatments won’t last forever. Depending on the species you want to control, some insecticides will only work for two or three years. The emerald ash borer falls into this ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry August 3,2016 )
The Wonder of It All by Yosemite Conservancy
epub |eng | 2016-02-13 | Author:Yosemite Conservancy

Great Smoky Mountains National Park A Good Old-Fashioned Mountain Rescue Jane Marie Allen Farmer In the 1980s, cell phones were nonexistent, which meant rescue could be a long way off. ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists July 24,2016 )
The Man Who Built the Sierra Club by Robert Wyss
epub |eng | 2016-06-06 | Author:Robert Wyss

14. Diablo and Galápagos Taking risks has been my trouble in the environmental movement. Because I am a climber, I am aware that there’s a certain amount of danger in ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 24,2016 )
Tipping Point for Planet Earth by Anthony D. Barnosky
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony D. Barnosky

7 TOXINS Tony in Fes, Morocco, March 1996 I couldn’t quite figure out which of my senses was being most assailed. I was in the Fes el Bali medina, one ...
( Category: Human Geography July 17,2016 )
Extinction: A Radical History by Ashley Dawson
epub |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Ashley Dawson

Rewilding also promises to rework environmental space. Looking forward to the calamitous impact of climate change, biologists have proposed radical new doctrines with the ominous-sounding names assisted colonization and ecological ...
( Category: Conservation July 10,2016 )
Permaculture by Jan Martin Bang
epub |eng | | Author:Jan Martin Bang

Rough stones require great skill to build with. Easily shaped soft stone like this from Iceland can be cut to fit together. Earth Earth has been used in building for ...
( Category: Natural Resources July 10,2016 )
Green Metropolis by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

Golden ragwort (Packera aurea) Such was the condition of the Ramble when the Central Park Conservancy was created in 1980. With more Olmstedian passion for re-creating the original sight lines ...
( Category: State & Local June 27,2016 )
Resurrection Science by M. R. O'Connor
epub |eng | 2015-07-22 | Author:M. R. O'Connor

6 Metaphysical Rhinos Ceratotherium simum cottoni In early 2008, stem cell researcher Jeanne Loring decided to take her staff on a field trip to the San Diego Zoo. Loring had ...
( Category: Natural History June 15,2016 )
Heal the World: David Icke's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Human & Planetary Transformation by David Icke
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-05-23 | Author:David Icke [Icke, David]

11 A Time to Feel You will probably have come across the term ‘going within’. When someone not in the know asks “what can I do?”, and they are told ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 9,2016 )
Rewilding the World by Caroline Fraser
epub |eng | | Author:Caroline Fraser

Kenya and “the Government’s Cattle” Kenya is divided by the Great Rift Valley, a wide plain formed thirty million years ago when tectonic plates collided and then heaved apart. To ...
( Category: Environmental May 12,2016 )
Bushmaster by Dan Eatherley
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Dan Eatherley

Raymond Ditmars extracts venom from a cottonmouth pitviper (Agkistrodon piscivorus), c. 1935. “It’s part of my job,” he once said. (© Wildlife Conservation Society) ONE Sunday afternoon in July 1893 ...
( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians May 11,2016 )
The Face on Your Plate by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
epub |eng | 2009-05-05 | Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Once again, a professional philosopher refuses to engage his heart at the same time as his head, and leaves behind his imaginative faculty, the very thing that is supposed to ...
( Category: Food Science May 6,2016 )
Rightful Heritage by Douglas Brinkley
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

CHAPTER FIFTEEN “I HOPE THE SON-OF-A-BITCH WHO LOGGED THAT IS ROASTING IN HELL” I Not all of Franklin Roosevelt’s American adventures in 1937 were on the open sea or in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 6,2016 )

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