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Orbit
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2020.
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First edition.
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From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world--rather, he imagines a more hopeful...
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The influential economist offers a persuasive strategy for a more just and sustainable economy-with a forward by Bernie Sanders.
The New York Times has said that Jeffrey D. Sachs is "probably the most important economist in the world." Now, in a book that combines impassioned manifesto with a plan of action, Sachs charts a path to move America toward sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach to public policy that unifies...
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Distilling the work of Father Vincent McNabb's years of preaching in London's Hyde Park, this challenging and entertaining book examines urbanized and industrialized life. The arguments claim that urban life has a deleterious effect on nature, community, family, and the spirit and offer a challenge to "flee to the fields," seeking a life not dominated by technology and artificial schedules but by the forces of God and nature. Newly edited and annotated,...
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Do you know what's in your gasoline?
Our addiction to gasoline threatens our lives as we breathe toxic carcinogens in our fuel. For over 100 years, the oil industry duped the public and collaborated with the federal government to protect its gasoline market. As a result, consumers waste billions of dollars, public health is compromised, and the nation remains captive to foreign oil.
Authors Burl Haigwood and Doug Durante tell this story based...
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Published for the first time in the United States, The Little Green Handbook is a unique reference work that illustrates the most important global developments facing us today, explains them, and suggests area for positive change. It relates physical trends to social and political repercussions, drawing together evidence from many interrelated fields to explain the science behind the news stories, sound bytes, and cocktail-party banter. Just how serious...
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«C'est alors que la terrible nouvelle est tombée. Maman était morte depuis moins d'un an, la douleur était toujours présente et pourtant, bien que perdre sa mère soit l'évènement le plus difficile à vivre pour presque chacun d'entre nous, sa mort était dans l'ordre normal de la vie. En comparaison, c'était une telle injustice, l'assassinat de tous ces jeunes gens! Et ce fut un choc, car nous ne pensions pas que ces fanatiques seraient capables...
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FIRE is a love letter to a small community who has a message for the world. The time for hollow words and targets and plans is over. Communities need to take back their control and consciously adapt to living in a world with more apocalyptic wildfires, killer heat domes, catastrophic rain bombs, lethal floods and mudslides, deadly droughts, and violent sandstorms.
In 2019 and 2020 fires ripped across Kangaroo Island's iconic landscape in the catastrophic...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "SEAG0211 - GESTIÓN AMBIENTAL". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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More than a billion people worldwide lack access to clean, safe water. Some 12 million people die annually as a result, and millions more are struck by diseases associated with the lack of sanitary water. Those afflicted live mainly in poor countries where water distribution is run by inefficient public providers-97 percent of all water distribution in poor countries is public. In recent years, a small number of developing country governments have...
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Is human-induced global warming a real threat to our future? Most people will express an opinion on this question, but relatively few can back their opinions with solid evidence. Many times we've even heard pundits say "I am not a scientist" to avoid the issue altogether. But the truth is, the basic science is not that difficult. Using a question and answer format, this book will help readers achieve three major goals: To see that anyone can understand...
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Conducted from 1984 to 1996, these interviews first appeared in the books Chronicles of Dissent, Keeping the Rabble in Line, and Class Warfare, all published by the independent publisher Common Courage Press in Monroe, Maine.
This omnibus collection includes a new introduction by David Barsamian, looking back on conversations and engagement with Chomsky's ideas that now spans decades, as well as a classic essay by Alexander Cockburn on Chomsky that...
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Fort McMurray, dans le nord de l'Alberta, est le Klondike d'une ruée vers l'or du XXIe siècle, ville-champignon au milieu d'un enfer écologique, o des travailleurs affluent de partout attirés par les promesses de boom économique. L'or qu'ils convoitent: les gisements de sables bitumineux, le pétrole le plus sale qui existe et qui est exploité au péril de la planète entière par les compagnies pétrolières comme Total. Nancy Huston est allée...
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CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT ONLY AN ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM. It is also a public-health issue, a national security risk, and an economic challenge of considerable magnitude. And it has only been recently that the public debate has shifted away from weighing the evidence to asking what we should do about our changing climate and the effects that are beginning to be felt. Deliberative forums on this issue may not be easy. It may be helpful to remind participants...
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Green will illustrate and shed new light on the gamut of issues associated with renewable energy, a topic whose importance increases exponentially with every temperature record-setting year. Jane and Michael Hoffman use their years of experience to explain the technological and economic future of this ecologically significant issue. They incisively explain its politics: what countries are doing right now and, most importantly, what the U.S. should...
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Paramount
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2006
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English
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Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.
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Inspired by Thomas Paine's classic, Common Sense, Frances Beinecke provides a concise account of what is at stake in the climate change debate. The impact of global climate change extends beyond environmental destruction. She challenges all Americans to demand a clean and sustainable energy future before it is too late. Doing so will help put Americans back to work, reduce our reliance on foreign oil, and create a healthier planet, for ourselves and...
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Elément essentiel du bien-être individuel et social comme de la qualité de vie des populations, le paysage contribue à l'épanouissement des êtres humains ainsi qu'à la consolidation de l'identité européenne.
Adoptée sous les auspices du Conseil de l'Europe, la Convention européenne du paysage a pour objet de promouvoir la protection, la gestion et l'aménagement des paysages et d'organiser la coopération internationale dans ce domaine....
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Le marché aveugle accompagne une croissance infinie du profit, mais la terre n'est-elle pas finie ? Faut-il être économiste pour voir que le capitalisme se base sur une idéologie qui profite d'abord au capital ? Et assister à la destruction de la nature et à la mainmise des multinationales sur les destins de nos sociétés ? Comment provoquer un changement social comparable à celui rendu nécessaire pour lutter contre le Covid19 ? Face aux...
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As a key element of individual and social well-being and quality of life, landscape plays an important part in human fulfilment and in reinforcement of European identity.
Adopted under the auspices of the Council of Europe, the European Landscape Convention aims to promote the protection, management and planning of landscapes, and to organise international co-operation in this field. It applies to the entire territory of the contracting parties and...
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