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The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters by Diane Coyle
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-06 | Author:Diane Coyle [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 ...
( Category: Environmental Policy November 11,2014 )
The Climate War by Eric Pooley
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Eric Pooley

31 A Rebel Encampment She wore her hair short—not so much cut as sheered off at the nape, because what does hair matter?—and her indifference to style made her all ...
( Category: Environmental Policy November 11,2014 )
A Sea in Flames by Carl Safina
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Carl Safina [Safina, Carl]

By the start of the third week of June, one-third of the Gulf’s federal waters, 81,000 square miles, remain closed to fishing. And the Economist estimates that BP is on ...
( Category: Drilling Procedures November 11,2014 )
Plastiki by David de Rothschild
epub |eng | | Author:David de Rothschild

FELL ASLEEP ON THE FORE DECK UNDER AN AWNING, WOKEN UP TO THE SUN TRYING TO TRACK ME DOWN, THE BODY’S HYDRATION LEVEL IS MIDDLE OF THE RD! @DREXPLORE 3:07 ...
( Category: Sailing November 11,2014 )
Survival of the Beautiful by David Rothenberg
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Rothenberg

Fig. 30. Razzacam, an as-yet-unsold camouflage pattern from the HyperStealth Corporation. Put this idea into camouflage and you can dither it into overlapping scales, like adding the leaves to trees, ...
( Category: Aesthetics November 11,2014 )
Way of the Panda by Henry Nicholls
epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Henry Nicholls [Nicholls, Henry]

26. Zoologist Devra Kleiman at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo with Ling-Ling in 1982. In time, behaviour and vocalisations would also give an indirect measure of how comfortable the animals felt ...
( Category: Bears November 11,2014 )
The Development of Economics by William A. Scott
epub |eng | | Author:William A. Scott

His system of thought may be briefly summarized as follows: Society is an organism created by the division of labor, each person being a cog in a machine engaged in ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry November 7,2014 )
Think Like a Commoner by David Bollier
epub |eng | 2014-01-17 | Author:David Bollier [Bollier, David]

The Inalienable Rights of Commoners Property rights do not arise naturally, as the great Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley noted in 1659. They are the result of conquest: “For the power ...
( Category: Social Philosophy November 4,2014 )
Poison Spring by E. G. Vallianatos
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:E. G. Vallianatos

The IBT scandal merely revealed what my EPA colleague David Smithson would call “garbage science.” IBT was not a unique case of scientific fraud––it was emblematic of a dark and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy October 31,2014 )
Global Spin by Sharon Beder
epub |eng | | Author:Sharon Beder

Television: Promoting Consumerism Although media outlets avoid controversial material, they do not want to bore their audiences. This has brought about an increase in non-news content, or ‘fluff ’, aimed ...
( Category: Environmental October 29,2014 )
Bottled and Sold by Peter H. Gleick
epub |eng | | Author:Peter H. Gleick

A New Alchemy If you can come up with two or more pseudoscientific, hyphenated words—some of them adjectives and one of them “water”—you too can market bottled water as a ...
( Category: Environmental Policy October 28,2014 )
A Whale For The Killing (v5.0) by Farley Mowat
epub, mobi |eng | 1972-01-02 | Author:Farley Mowat [Mowat, Farley]

* * * * The guts of the cod. When the Hanns returned to the Pond on Wednesday, they noted changes in the whale’s behaviour and appearance. “She waren’t blowing ...
( Category: Mammals October 27,2014 )
Total Liberation - The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth by David Naguib Pellow
epub |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:David Naguib Pellow [Pellow, David Naguib]

Policy and Legislation Directed at “Ecoterrorists” in Historical Perspective Legislation such as the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) of 2006 declared it “terrorism” to harm the profits of an industry ...
( Category: Radicalism October 27,2014 )
Oil and Honey by Bill McKibben
epub |eng | 2014-10-17 | Author:Bill McKibben

5 ON THE ROAD AGAIN Pandemonium! We were in one of Kirk’s big beeyards on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, breaking down big hives into small colonies that would ...
( Category: Social Activists October 27,2014 )
The Dolphin in the Mirror by Diana Reiss
epub |eng | | Author:Diana Reiss [Reiss, Diana]

6. Through the Looking Glass THE DANCER IN ME was quite captivated as I watched Presley perform a bizarre sequence of horizontal swirls. He was lying below the water's surface ...
( Category: Marine Life October 16,2014 )

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