Renowned energy expert Michael T. Klare provides an invaluable account of the new and increasingly dangerous competition for the world's dwindling natural resources. Arguing that the world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion -- one that goes beyond "peak oil" to encompass shortages of coal and uranium, copper and lithium, water, and arable land -- Klare shows how the desperate hunt for raw materials is forcing governments and corporations...

Learn how small, everyday actions can conserve energy sources, reduce your carbon footprint, and even save money in the process. This program deciphers 'green' marketing claims and labels such as 'Energy star', 'DfE', renewable and sustainable. We illustrate eco-friendly ways to buy, prepare, store and dispose of food, and explore methods of saving water, reusing and recycling and trashing trash. Also learn about environmentally friendly clothing...

First published in 1917, "Growth of the Soil" is the epic and seminal work by Knut Hamsun, the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian writer. Originally published in Norwegian and subsequently translated into numerous languages and read around the world, "Growth of the Soil" has been lauded as one of the twentieth-century's most important and ground-breaking novels. Hamsun was a pioneer in a new more realistic style of literature and was one of the first to...

The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the overexploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution. In How to Think Seriously about the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects this view and offers a fresh approach to tackling the most important political problem of our time. He contends...

Acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart - a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of...

A man harvests and sells a bountiful crop of pumpkins so that he will be able to preserve the field from developers.

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.

Adquirir y/o actualizar conocimientos sobre la recepción, cocido y corte de planchas de corcho natural para la obtención del certificado de profesionalidad. Ebook ajustado al certificado de profesionalidad de Fabricación de objetos de corcho.

The author of the Sneaky Uses series shares creative ways to go green with forty projects that help you reuse, recycle, conserve energy-and have fun! In Sneaky Green Uses for Everyday Things, Cy Tymony combines his sneaky science known-how with Earth-friendly techniques to offer an all-new volume of easy, fun, and practical projects. With step-by-step instructions and illustrations, you'll learn how to conserve energy and reduce waste around the home...

Actually,A child asked me, " What is God Anyway". I didn't know exactly how to answer her as I did not want to offend her scientist,atheist father. After we discussed the the subject a bit,I told her that I would write her a story. I attended all Catholic Schools through graduate school and was given,at an early age, the marvelous gift of faith and wonder. I wanted to impart the innocence,hope, joy and awe that was given to me Since i was given these...