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Handbook 101-A Guide to Sustainability for the Individual Consumer
It is easy to get lost in all the information regarding our planet and its current situation. This book was designed to make complex relations simple and to help us understand what happened, why it happened, and what we can do to help create a safe future for humanity.
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La Tierra siempre ha sufrido transformaciones que han predeterminado su devenir, muchas de ellas de origen natural. Sin embargo, en los últimos siglos las actuaciones ocasionadas por el hombre están teniendo graves repercusiones ambientales y están condicionando el futuro y la sostenibilidad del planeta.
La situación actual nos obliga a adoptar un nuevo paradigma de consumo y desarrollo que no hipoteque nuestro futuro ni arruine las condiciones...
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Der Klimanotstand bedroht die Existenz des gesamten Planeten! Die internationale Staatengemeinschaft hat die globale Erwärmung als größte Bedrohung zwar anerkannt, aber getan hatte sich bisher trotz allem relativ wenig. Doch das scheint sich jetzt endlich zu ändern. Wird im Jahr 2021 endlich die Wende eingeläutet? Immerhin beflügeln bereits zwei Ereignisse die Hoffnungen der Menschen, denn zum einen hatte Joe Biden, der neue Präsident der USA,...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 We all have stories about how we became vegan or plant-based. They all start the same: we stopped knowing, and we didn't realize it until we woke up. We willingly choose to know and change, despite the comfort of ignorance.
#2 We turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, and we play a game of pretend like the child who covers...
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Back to the city, or back to nature? Seattle author David Williams shows us how we can get the best of both. Botany and bugs, geology and geese, and creeks and crows; living in a major city doesn't have to separate us from the natural world. Stepping away from a guidebook format, Williams presents the reader with a series of essays and maps that weave personal musings, bits of humor, natural history observations, and scientific data into a multi-textured...
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Aunque el desarrollo tecnológico y la vida en las grandes urbes nos han alejado de la Naturaleza, poco a poco estamos retornando a ella. El objetivo de este ensayo es que este retorno a la Naturaleza no solo sirva para evitar que esta pierda sus formas de vida y ambientes frágiles y especiales, sino también para que nosotros mismos evolucionemos como especie hacia un mundo más armónico en todo sentido.
Esta evolución implica que nos conozcamos...
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The constant assault of natural forces make fragile barrier islands some of the most rapidly changing locations in the world, but human activities have had enormous impact on these islands as well. In Altered Environments, Jeffrey and Kathleen Pompe explore the complex interactions between nature and human habitation on the resilient Outer Banks of North Carolina. The Pompes employ modern and historical photographs and maps to illustrate the geographic...
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London's Natural History describes how the spread of man's activities has affected the plants and animals in them, destroying some and creating others. Up to now there has been no real attempt to write a comprehensive history of a great human community in terms of the animals and plants it has displaced, changed, moved and removed, introduced, conserved, lost or forgotten. In selecting London as an area for such study Mr. Fitter, himself a Londoner,...
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Ecology is the study of organisms and the way in which they interact with the environment. In a time where a lot of focus is placed upon the state of our environment and conservation, our gardens and local green spaces can be havens for a huge amount of diversity. In Heston, where I grew up, our garden and local fields have provided me with endless engagement and wonder. It's astounding the level of diversity that seemingly ignored areas of land harbour...
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El desarrollo de los centros urbanos y el crecimiento constante de su población ha tenido efectos notorios en la conservación de los ambientes naturales. La disminución de las áreas verdes y su sustitución por áreas habitacionales, escolares, centros de trabajo e incluso industrias ha ocasionado en las ciudades la pérdida de animales que se alimentan de las plantas que crecen en estos sitios. Los polinizadores son un ejemplo de esto. Con el...
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And so, instead of reciting figures and spewing forth yet more apocalyptic forecasts, Matjaž and I decided to highlight the communities and individuals who are bravely taking on the calamity. It is high time to add them all up, the members of the homo sapiens true elite who have chosen not to be swept away in the tide of indifference and arrogance, the visionary women and men who are not banking on miraculous salvation from elsewhere.
Our ambition...
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In this collection of his works, Cal Cumin deepens our understanding of Montana-both past and present. When the Skunkbrush Turns is how the Crow describe that time in the fall of the year when the hardy shrub native to the rolling hills of Montana turns from its usual shy green to a brilliant red. Cumin has roamed the land around Billings since he was a boy, and he tells of Native American lore, the coming of the white people and the ensuing battles,...
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El ecologismo de los pobres tiene la intención explícita de contribuir a consolidar dos áreas de estudio recientes, la ecología política y la economía ecológica, al tiempo que analiza las relaciones entre ambas. El libro analiza diversas manifestaciones del creciente 'movimiento por la justicia ecológica', así como el 'ecologismo popular' y el 'ecologismo de los pobres', que en las próximas décadas se convertirán en fuerzas motrices para...
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If you love nature and being outdoors - hiking, smelling the fresh air, and feeling the warm sun on your skin - you will love this book! This little book is filled with activities to increase your enjoyment and understanding of the natural world. Not only will you understand nature at a deeper level, you will start to understand that you are a part of the natural world and it is part of you!
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Thorough, detailed, and scientifically up-to-date, Prairies: A Natural History provides a comprehensive nontechnical guide to the biology and ecology of the prairies, or the Great Plains grasslands of North America, offering a view of the past, a vision for the future, and a clear focus on the present. With a total area of more than 3.5 million square kilometers (500,000 in Canada and the remainder in the United States), the prairies occupy the heartland...
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"This Is Hope" is a crossover book for self-identified environmentalists, species rights advocates, vegans and vegetarians, those dedicated to true sustainability, fish and wildlife "management" professionals, students of deep ecology, and those who want to know the biocentric solutions for our dietary, consumer, and reproductive choices. Over a span of three decades, I managed campaigns for species rights and environmental organizations. We operated...
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Poised atop the high Himalayas is a frightening daisy chain of fragile glacial lakes, all produced by glacial melting as a result of climate change. When the lakes burst, the torrents of water sweep entire populations in their wake. In A Deluge of Consequences, intrepid journalist Jacques Leslie takes us along on a mythic, spell-binding trip to the bucolic kingdom of Bhutan, where the planet's next environmental disaster is set to unfold. Bhutan's...
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El presente título hace una relación entre citadinos y naturaleza. Analiza los orígenes de las ciudades y la interacción del humano con su medio ambiente desde el punto de vista de la ecología urbana, con el objetivo de comprender las relaciones complejas entre la naturaleza y las actividades sociales, políticas y económicas que se encuentran en estas metrópolis.
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No one likes listening to smug hippies bragging about how they don't use toilet paper, or worse yet, lecturing about the evils of plastic bags and SUVs. But most of us do want to lessen our ecological footprint. With this in mind, Farquharson takes on the intense personal challenge of making one green change to her lifestyle every single day for a year to ultimately figure out what's doable and what's too hardcore.
Vanessa goes to the extremes of...
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