Conservation
mobi, epub |ru | 2012-04-18 | Author:Edward Humes

TRASHY DELUSIONS From a Garbage Project study for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on the Lean Cuisine syndrome (how people overestimate and underestimate their consumption of certain foods based on ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-10-14 | Author:Paul Greenberg

With fish, though, hope must always be put in context. Around the time of the North American cod crises and the passage of the Sustainable Fisheries Act, Daniel Pauly, known ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Coyle, Diane [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: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Brown, Lester R. [Brown, Lester R.]

* * * Data, endnotes, and additional resources can be found on Earth Policy’s Web site, at www.earth-policy.org. * * * 9 Harnessing Wind, Solar, and Geothermal Energy As fossil ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Elizabeth Royte

A lot can go wrong with your home’s plumbing, but even more goes wrong in the streets. Every year, according to the American Water Works Association, between 250,000 and 300,000 ...
( Category: Ecology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

Warden Guy Bradley was murdered in Florida for trying to protect bird rookeries from plume hunters. Warden Guy Bradley. (Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The National Association of ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Robert Sullivan

THE REVIEWER OF A WEEK who perhaps most upset him was Emerson. Emerson had praised the book to Thoreau in person. Eventually, Thoreau realized that Emerson was not being honest ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-15 | Author:Barbara Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp; Camille Kingsolver

Our turkeys were looking gorgeous after their awkward adolescent molt into adult plumage. Bourbon Reds are as handsome as it gets on the turkey runway, with chestnut-red bodies, white wings, ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-02-26 | Author:Maude Barlow [Barlow, Maude]

Ecuador On March 1, 2007, the mayor of Quito, Ecuador’s capital, announced he had halted plans to privatize the city’s water, plans that had been seriously underway for four years. ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-11 | Author:Maude Barlow

BRAZIL IN THE LEAD Brazil and the United States produce almost 90 percent of the world’s biofuels. Brazil is the leading manufacturer and exporter of sugarcane ethanol, and most cars ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-12 | Author:Bridgewater, Alan & Bridgewater, Gill [Bridgewater, Gill]

FOOD-PRODUCTION WASTE Used vegetable oil can be filtered, chemically treated, and turned into biodiesel relatively easily. BIODIESEL Biodiesel will work in just about any conventional diesel engine. At a relatively ...
( Category: Conservation March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1991-12-13 | Author:Douglas Adams; Mark Carwardine

Blind Panic Assumptions are the things you don't know you're making, which is why it is so disorienting the first time you take the plug out of a wash basin ...
( Category: Endangered Species March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1991-01-29 | Author:Douglas Adams

Blind Panic Assumptions are the things you don't know you're making, which is why it is so disorienting the first time you take the plug out of a wash basin ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Naam, Ramez

Increasing our governmental investments in R&D, introducing competition and incentives into schooling, and funneling more college students into science and engineering are all key steps to boosting our long-term rate ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Alan Weisman [WEISMAN, ALAN]

In the village of Ahmed Khan Zour, fifty kilometers farther north, a HANDS theater troupe is giving its 640th performance. More than one hundred women in bright salwar kameez and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )