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Earth will have more than 9.6 billion people by 2050 according to U.N. predictions. With resources already scarce, how will we feed them all? Journalist Lisa Palmer has traveled the world for years documenting the cutting-edge innovations of people and organizations on the front lines of fighting the food gap. Here, she shares the story of the epic journey to solve the imperfect relationship between two of our planet's greatest challenges: climate...
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This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers the future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability and environmental education, pulls no punches: Even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will not reach a new equilibrium for centuries. Earth is becoming a different planet-more threadbare and less biologically...
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The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino,...
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Passionate and cogent, this could be the most important book of the year for Canadians We are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world's fresh water - water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could not be more wrong. In Boiling Point, bestselling author and activist Maude Barlow lays bare the issues facing Canada's water reserves, including long-outdated water laws, unmapped and unprotected groundwater reserves,...
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Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson, a team of national experts explores the book's historical...
6) Power, Politics and People's Welfare: The Magnetron Technology – A New Window in Power Generation
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The book presents an admixture of treasured initiatives to make it a handy package:
- of vital tips on enduring social development;
- of inspiring stimuli for positive intellectual exploits;
- of delight to research and development (R&D) enthusiasts, environmentalists and the academia;
- of pointers to an exciting new field for exploration by corporate investors; and
- of good tidings on enhanced quality of life worldwide-
all carefully structured...
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This book confronts the planetary emergency produced by the accelerated ecological devastation of the last half-century. The human species is in a race against time to salvage and restore what it can of the environmental conditions that make a healthy existence possible. This task requires us to reconsider not only the type of energy that we use, but also the institutions, the technology, and the social relationships that determine what is produced,...
8) Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, And Deception To Keep You Misinformed
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Liars-Al Gore, the United Nations, the New York Times. The global warming lobby, relentless in its push for bigger government, more spending, and more regulation, will use any means necessary to scare you out of your wits-as well as your tax dollars and your liberties-with threats of rising oceans, deadly droughts, and unspeakable future consequences of "climate change." In pursuing their anti-energy, anti-capitalist, and pro-government agenda, the...
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Many people believe that globalization and its key components have made matters worse for humanity and the environment. Indur M. Goklany exposes this as a complete myth and challenges people to consider how much worse the world would be without them. Goklany confronts foes of globalization and demonstrates that economic growth, technological change and free trade helped to power a "cycle of progress" that in the last two centuries enabled unprecedented...
10) La revolución ciudadana en Ecuador (2007-2017): posneoliberalismo y (re)colonización de la naturalez
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Esta obra representa un esfuerzo por analizar, desde una perspectiva transdisciplinaria y multiescalar, una de las manifestaciones paradigmáticas de depredación ambiental en Abya Yala/ América Latina en los albores del nuevo milenio. En un recorrido por las vicisitudes del sistema-mundo moderno / colonial y sus transiciones hegemónicas la investigación buscó evidenciar los límites y contradicciones internas de un proyecto político que, contrario...
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When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of their community, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives, community-based social services, local non-profit organizations, and charitable foundations are all examples of social economies that emphasize mutual benefit rather than the accumulation of profit. While such groups often participate in market-based activities to achieve their goals, they also pose an alternative...
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Human beings depend on energy. From burning wood to harnessing the atom, we have relied on the consumption of natural resources. As civilization grows and the demand for energy increases, we must ask ourselves how to best meet our energy needs while responsibly stewarding our resources. In Abundant Energy: The Fuel of Human Flourishing, Kenneth P. Green provides a brief history of our reliance on different sources of energy, explores the viability...
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Sustainability Sutra addresses the pursuit of sustainability as crucial in the transformation from an industrial to an ecological civilization, exploring in succinct detail how sustainability can be accomplished through an ecological global growth strategy that makes economic growth mean ecological improvement. It is a meditative journey of self-discovery. It is a path and record of a writer's and reader's heart way. The book includes an Introduction...
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The relationship between environmental regulation and economic growth has gone from dysfunctional to disastrous under the leadership of Barack Obama's USEPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson. Jackson's EPA has assumed broad new powers and promulgated sweeping new regulations unlike anything that America has seen since the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act were signed into law forty years ago. While much of the public has focused on the EPA's plans to regulate...
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El Riachuelo se asocia inmediatamente con un paisaje urbano altamente contaminado, un territorio de asentamientos para la población más pobre y desprotegida de la ciudad y décadas de inacción de los Estados. Sin embargo, los problemas sociales vinculados a la contaminación permanecieron invisibles hasta 2006, cuando la Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación declara su competencia en una causa relacionada con la contaminación y coloca la recomposición...
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Out of Bounds, Out of Control measures the enforcement activities of the Environmental Protection Agency against that standard and finds them disturbingly deficient. Environmental regulation is so detailed and obscure that no one can identify all relevant mandates, let alone ensure compliance. EPA maintains broad discretion to define legal violations and resists any checks. Discretion is exercised retroactively or arbitrarily. People fear to dispute...
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Dans le mode de vie impérial qui est le ntre, à ce stade avancé du capitalisme marqué par l'impératif de la croissance, les moindres détails du quotidien, la construction de notre identité comme société et comme individus, tout repose sur la constitution d'un ailleurs o nos entreprises exploitent la force de travail comme elles ne peuvent le faire ici, et o nous faisons disparaître nos déchets et fructifier nos surplus.
Cette dynamique...
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Este volumen comienza por examinar la historia de la ecología de Latinoamérica y el Caribe y su impacto en el desarrollo político. Continúa por explorar la idea de la naturaleza en la historia, una variable clave en el cómo las sociedades humanas interactúan con el medio ambiente, así como las actitudes hacia la producción y el consumo. Después hace una visión general de los temas principales en el estudio de las políticas ambientales:...
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Multiplication des ouragans. Disparition des glaciers. Prolifération des feux de forêt en Amazonie, en Australie et en Californie. Les désastres naturels font aujourd'hui partie intégrante de notre quotidien. À tel point que les nouvelles générations grandissent en sachant qu'au rythme o vont les choses, la Terre ne sera bientt plus habitable.
Mais un mouvement de transformation est en marche : celui de cette jeunesse, justement, qui lutte...
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In The Truth Has Changed, Josh Fox turns the rapid-fire shocks that are remaking the very fabric of our lives-writing as a first responder, a reporter, a documentarian, and an activist-into art, literature, and at least one answer to the question of what the future holds.
Our normal isn't normal anymore.
The paradigm shift that global warming represents parallels a paradigm shift in how we process truth. Both deeply affect democracy.
Josh Fox has...
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