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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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En Biodigestor describimos primero de qué está compuesto el biogás y nos referimos a algunos descubrimientos científicos que contribuyeron a entender cómo se produce. Posteriormente explicamos cómo funcionan los biodigestores anaeróbicos, tecnología diseñada para producir biogás, y su uso en algunas regiones del mundo.
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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...
12) La composta
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La composta presenta el uso de composteros caseros para interiores, una alternativa para aprovechar los residuos orgánicos para hacer composta; una forma segura de transformar los residuos orgánicos en insumos para la producción agrícola o para su uso en la jardinería o en las macetas, ya sea como mejorador de suelo o como aportador de nutrientes.
13) 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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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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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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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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We're all prone to excess, even in discussions of excess, observes biologist and science writer Marlene Zuk. This year has been marked by another rainfall of books about humans destroying the environment in which they evolved, a few about the a priori Darwinian mismatch between humans and their so-called "natural" environments, and a great many more about the even greater mismatch between humans and their constructed environments. This month's Digital...
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The underlying premise of this book is as follows, taken from the introduction: "Every substance and raw material required for our existence comes from Earth's biosphere, and all depleted or discarded substances and materials are returned to the biosphere as waste to be absorbed or recycled by Earth's ecological systems. These materials and ecological systems are the foundation upon which all economic activity and every other human endeavor are based....
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Los alimentos que tienen un mayor contenido de humedad suelen tener una vida útil más corta, ya que existen microorganismos que, al encontrar las condiciones necesarias, tienden a desarrollarse en ellos. Con este libro podrás fabricar tu propio secador solar de alimentos.
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