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David Suzuki's Green Guide by David Suzuki
epub |eng | 2008-03-30 | Author:David Suzuki [Suzuki, David]

SWITCH TO CLEANER FUELS Because of climate change, concerns about running out of oil, and rising gas prices, there is growing interest in alternative fuels. Potential substitutes for gasoline include ...
( Category: Conservation March 31,2016 )
Half-Earth by Edward O. Wilson
epub |eng | 2016-03-22 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

The West Indies CUBA AND HISPANIOLA. The two largest islands of the Greater Antilles contain an exuberant fauna and flora that form the bulk of the biodiversity of all the ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 23,2016 )
The Upcycle by William McDonough
epub |eng | | Author:William McDonough

Soil Not Oil Chapter 4 Food as a battery—that is what we would like you now to consider. But before we get to the full expression of that proposal, we ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 15,2016 )
In Pursuit of Butterflies by Matthew Oates
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Oates

19 High adventures in the mid-1990s The 1994 butterflying season was launched by a Small Tortoiseshell at Chartwell, Sir Winston Churchill's former residence west of Sevenoaks in Kent, with shimmering ...
( Category: Butterflies March 14,2016 )
The Hunt for the Golden Mole by Richard Girling
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Girling [Girling, Richard]

Uninvited guest – the lioness brought a sudden end to breakfast Another day, we rumble across the plain to the conservancy’s airstrip. It is heavily grazed and, at ground level, ...
( Category: Conservation March 6,2016 )
1408809052 (H) by Sandy Gall
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Sandy Gall [Gall, Sandy]

13 The Protection-Money Racket We don’t trust what they say any more. Pushtun elder, Kandahar, quoted in the New York Times, 26 March 2010 Kandahar is Afghanistan’s second city, the ...
( Category: General March 6,2016 )
The Black Rhinos of Namibia by Rick Bass
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass [Bass, Rick]

In the morning, the nifty little refrigerator is broken, doubtless the result of Andreas’s mad cannon-ride run down off the red mountain, so Dennis and I are forced to eat ...
( Category: Wildlife March 5,2016 )
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life by George Monbiot
epub |eng | | Author:George Monbiot [Monbiot, George]

10 The Hushings . . . the smashed faces Of the farms with the stone trickle Of their tears down the hills’ side. R. S. Thomas Reservoirs Of all the ...
( Category: Environmental February 29,2016 )
Of Orcas and Men by David Neiwert
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:David Neiwert [NEIWERT, DAVID]

CHAPTER Seven Salmon, Boats, and Oil THE SUMMER OF 2013 WAS A PECULIAR YEAR—A WORRISOME YEAR—for whale watchers in the San Juan Islands, and it all came down to salmon, ...
( Category: Marine Life February 29,2016 )
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring by William Souder
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:William Souder [Souder, William]

The “safety” of a pesticide is a relative question, as the toxicity of any substance depends on the dose and the route of exposure. Calling a compound an “insecticide” identifies ...
( Category: Environmental February 24,2016 )
Rainbow Dust by Peter Marren
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Marren

9. Fire and Brimstone Butterflies and the Imagination The earliest writers about our butterflies were concerned with a matter to which few today give any thought. They wanted to know ...
( Category: Butterflies February 15,2016 )
The Species Seekers by Richard Conniff
epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Richard Conniff

“An Animal of an Extraordinary Character” His moment came, oddly, after he had already sailed for home early in 1847, at the end of his years in Africa. The ship ...
( Category: Conservation February 14,2016 )
Nextinction by Ralph Steadman
epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:Ralph Steadman

Giant Ibis Thaumatibis gigantea Another once-abundant bird, the Giant Ibis, of which there are only about 230 mature individuals remaining, is found in northern Cambodia, southern Laos, and there has ...
( Category: Birds February 2,2016 )
The Toxin-Free Home by Haynes Alison
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Haynes, Alison

MOLD ATTACK Improving ventilation is the long-term solution, either by opening windows immediately after a steamy bath or shower, installing extractor fans, or fitting the room with wall vents so ...
( Category: Cleaning, Caretaking & Relocating December 30,2015 )
Fire Outside My Window by Sandra Millers Younger
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Sandra Millers Younger

Retirees Bob and Barbara Daly had also been forced back by the flames. Awakened by the sound of the wind rearranging their patio furniture, Bob Daly had immediately roused his ...
( Category: State & Local November 21,2015 )

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