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RADIOACTIVE CLOUDS OF DEATH OVER UTAH From 1950 to the 1958 moratorium on atmospheric testing, the Atomic Energy Commission detonated over 100 atomic bombs at the Nevada Test Site. The inhabitants of St. George, Utah--the so-called downwinders--were repeatedly in the fly zone of these toxic, windblown clouds--so much so that St. George became known nationwide as Fallout City, USA. In the fall of 1979, Stewart Udall, along with a team of lawyers, came...
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Get the Summary of Douglas W. Tallamy's ‘Nature's Best Hope’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Douglas W. Tallamy's first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step...
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Alarmist (pre 2020): Someone who exaggerates a danger and so causes needless worry or panic.alarmist (post 2020): Someone who justifiably raises the alarm about a global danger to Earth's biosphere.
His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it' s critical.
In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist Dave Lowe was posted at an atmospheric monitoring station on the wind-blasted southern coast of New Zealand' s North Island. On a shoestring salary...
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The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this relationship impels us towards a revolutionary and as-yet undiscovered shift in strategy. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative...
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Investors today need to understand the dynamics of how macro and micro economies operate and how they affect the property markets. Margaret explains this theory in her trademark easy-to-understand style. The book also includes information on: • The current property landscape • Matching property with investors' profiles • Timing the markets to invest when an area is about to take off • Finding strong cash flow and capital growth investments...
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The effects of climate change are reshaping the Arctic profoundly. Landscapes are being radically transformed, animal habitats are disappearing, and natural resources are being revealed to an energy-starved world. Veteran Arctic journalist Ed Struzik took eleven trips throughout the north to document this rapidly changing land, gaining unprecedented access to scientific expeditions, native communities and security and sovereignty experts. The product...
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Sabiduría Conectada: Historias de todos los tiempos sobre los sistemas vivientes reúne doce cuentos de diversas culturas, cada uno de los cuales revela un ejemplo único de un "sistema viviente". A través de ellos, la autora Linda Booth Sweeney muestra que lo que hoy llamamos pensamiento de sistemas tiene una larga historia entre nosotros. Un cuento popular balinés narra la historia de una salamandra que no puede dormir debido a las chispas de...
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Les services rendus par les écosystèmes contribuent autant au bien-être des individus et des collectivités qu'à l'activité économique. Mais quelle est la valeur de ces actifs naturels non marchands? Une demande sociale, entrepreneuriale et institutionnelle croissante se manifeste pour de nouveaux indicateurs économiques permettant la mesure et le suivi des variations dans l'état des écosystèmes. Cette demande se traduit par une intégration...
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On the eve of its 50th anniversary, the Landscape Architecture Foundation asked a diverse group of the world's leading landscape architects to reflect on the last half-century and present bold ideas for what the discipline should achieve in the future. Well beyond the public conception of the profession as "gardener" or "park designer," these landscape architects discussed their role in addressing weighty issues like climate change, urbanization,...
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Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leapfrogs the environmental movement's deadlock over our willingness to change our conduct, focusing instead on our ability to adapt to the impending ecological revolution.
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Part green-lifestyle guide, part popular science, How Bad Are Bananas? is the first book to provide the information we need to make carbon-savvy purchases and informed lifestyle choices and to build carbon considerations into our everyday thinking. The book puts our decisions into perspective with entries for the big things (the World Cup, volcanic eruptions, the Iraq war) as well as the small (email, ironing, a glass of beer). And it covers the range...
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Many books on environmental issues focus on contemporary wasteful practices and portend a gloomy future. This book is different: it delves into the most daunting ecological and environmental challenges humankind has faced and shows how scientists, citizens, and governments addressed them successfully. There is a way forward, and this book shows us how to begin the journey. Environmental Success Stories shares the unified strategies that have brought...
14) Dreams
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Jensen's furthest-reaching book yet, Dreams challenges the "destructive nihilism" of writers like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris who believe that there is no reality outside what can be measured using the tools of science. He introduces the mythologies of ancient cultures and modern indigenous peoples as evidence of alternative ways of understanding reality, informed by thinkers such as American Indian writer Jack Forbes, theologian and American Indian...
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At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously...
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Choose the red pill and
Escape the Meatrix
What if you suddenly discovered you were trapped inside a dystopian cult of oppression, murder, and profit-and that your greatest source of calories was an artificially invented diet created by powerful lobbies, designed to line the pockets of the 1% at the cost of your own health and the planet's very survival?
What would you do?
Escape the Meatrix chronicles Stuart Waldner's eye-opening battle against...
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This book is a pioneering effort to meet the challenging requirements of understanding environmental pollution. The book has been written especially to fill the need for a one-volume general discussion of the major types of environmental pollution-air, water, noise, solid waste, thermal, marine, and radiation pollution and their adverse effects on man and on the environment. Historical and current statistics have been included mainly from Indian,...
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La industria siderúrgica genera un sinnúmero de residuos sólidos contaminantes. Las escorias básicas (blancas) producidas durante el afino del acero en el horno cuchara, es un residuo que amerita ser investigado y valorado en sus efectos por el impacto que representa ambientalmente su disposición final y manejo. Agronómicamente se atribuye a las escorias básicas un alto potencial para controlar la acidez de suelos agrícolas limitados en su...
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Environmental Biology is designed to arrange diverse areas of environmental biology in a coherent manner. The subject matter, both as regards the arrangement of chapters as well as contents is designed to meet the requirements of the students in several Indian universities. The present book New Dimensions of Environmental Biology has been written especially to suit the need of undergraduate and post graduate students of the Indian Universities. This...
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Acting as the planet's air conditioner, the rainforest sucks up millions of tons of greenhouse gases and stores them safely out of the atmosphere. South America's deforestation threatens to unleash a kind of "carbon bomb" that will add to our already deteriorating climate difficulties. As he travels across Peru and Brazil, recognized South America expert Nikolas Kozloff talks to locals, scientists and activists about the rainforest and what should...
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