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Green Gone Wrong by Rogers Heather
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Rogers, Heather [Rogers, Heather]

CHAPTER SIX The Price of Air: Carbon Offsets Gudibanda is a string of dusty villages about sixty kilometers north of Bangalore in the southern state of Karnataka, India. The landscape ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis by Cynthia Barnett
mobi, epub |ru | 2011-09-20 | Author:Cynthia Barnett

After the philosophers, the academics, and the Christians, there was still one crucial authority I had yet to mine for ethical truths about water. And that was YouTube. One Saturday ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Steven Solomon

By every measure, the canal was a stupendous success. Within a decade, some 5,000 vessels were passing through it every year, as many as through Suez. By 1970, over 15,000 ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Timothy Egan

10. Blowup A WIND OUT OF the American West that tumbles in roller-coaster fashion is known as a Palouser, a Sahaptin Indian word that sounds poetic, named for the lilt ...
( Category: Fire Science March 25,2014 )
Running Dry by Jonathan Waterman
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Waterman

The next day, bobbing in a boat next to the “Keep Out” signs 200 yards upstream of the dam, I’m talking with the director of the Glen Canyon Institute (GCI), ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources by Klare Michael T
mobi |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Klare, Michael T. [Klare, Michael T.]

TABLE 6.1: THE RARE EARTHS AND THEIR USES Sources: U.S. General Accounting Office, Rare Earth Materials in the Defense Supply Chain, April 1, 2010; Keith Bradsher, “China Tightens Grip on ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg
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 )
Earth Wars by Hiscock Geoff
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Hiscock, Geoff [Hiscock, Geoff]

In the early 1980s, Jack Welch, then head of the U.S. conglomerate General Electric, decided he no longer wanted to be in commodities. He set about divesting GE’s commodity assets, ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
Young Men and Fire by Maclean Norman
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Maclean, Norman [Maclean, Norman]

A few summers ago, thirty years after the fire, I sent what I hoped was gentle word through a common friend to a mother of one of the Mann Gulch ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 25,2014 )
Blue Covenant by Maude Barlow
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 )
Blue Future by Maude Barlow
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 )
By All Means Necessary by Levi Michael Economy Elizabeth
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Levi, Michael, Economy, Elizabeth [Levi, Michael, Economy, Elizabeth]

Law to the Rescue? Many hope that international law will impose a resolution to the conflicts over resource ownership. This would, however, be a strong departure from historical precedent. (Moreover, ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )
Last chance to see-- by Douglas Adams; Mark Carwardine
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 )
Drinking Water by James Salzman
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:James Salzman [SALZMAN, JAMES]

This incredible—truly incredible—tale invented at Winchcombe Abbey was a likely result of such boosterism, as pilgrimage sites competed with one another to get a cut from the revenue stream. One ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
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 )

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