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A guided tour of a revolution in the making that promises to change our lives
Global warming, rolling black outs, massive tanker spills, oil dependence: our profligate ways have doomed us to suffer such tragedies, right? Perhaps, but Vijay Vaitheeswaran, the energy and environment correspondent for The Economist, sees great opportunity in the energy realm today, and Power to the People is his fiercely independent and irresistibly entertaining look...
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Este libro pretende dar una mirada sobre el proceso general que da origen a los servicios ambientales, desde su inicio solar y su incidencia en la biodiversidad, en el bienestar humano y en los flujos de energía de los ecosistemas. Enfatiza en la relación entre el hombre y el agua, exponiendo ideas fundamentales en la gestión hídrica y la calidad hidroecológica como herramienta para la toma de decisiones y la formulación de políticas públicas....
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From Michael Klare, the renowned expert on natural resource issues, an invaluable account of a new and dangerous global competition
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion-a crisis that goes beyond "peak oil" to encompass shortages of coal and uranium, copper and lithium, water and arable land. With all of the planet's easily accessible resource deposits rapidly approaching exhaustion, the desperate hunt for supplies has...
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¿Qué es el cambio climático? ¿Por qué debería preocuparnos el hábitat de los osos polares mientras podamos mantener nuestras rutinas cotidianas?
La temperatura promedio de la Tierra subió 1,2 °C desde 1750. Parece poquito, una pavada. Pero fue suficiente para desencadenar una serie de modificaciones irreversibles en todo el mundo, con consecuencias devastadoras: incendios indomables, que pueden devorar desde Córdoba hasta California, desde...
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Hoy hablamos de hongos, líquenes, ingeniería de bacterias, microbiota, inteligencia artificial. Ya no estamos en un mundo de objetos que responden a la voluntad humana, sino en uno de vivientes que se superponen con nosotros y nos generan desconcierto. ¿Son amigos o enemigos? ¿Cómo funcionan? Si el mandato de "modernizar" que nos trajo hasta acá buscaba cortar amarras con todo lo que parecía arcaico y proyectarnos, gracias a la ciencia, directamente...
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Historians of wilderness have shown that nature reserves are used ideologically in the construction of American national identity. But the contemporary problem of wilderness demands examination of how profoundly nature-in-reserve influences something more fundamental, namely what counts as being well, having a life, and having a future. What is wellness for the citizens to whom the parks are said to democratically belong? And how does the presence...
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El colapso ecológico –y el discurso que insiste con la catástrofe planetaria– se han vuelto parte de nuestro sentido común. En esta antología, Eduardo Galeano propone una mirada alternativa, que es en realidad una constante en toda su obra, para acercarnos al mismo problema: nos recuerda nuestro vínculo insoslayable con la naturaleza, explora su riqueza y sus formas de resistencia, y hasta señala con alarma nuestra tenacidad urbana y "moderna"...
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¿Por qué luchan los que luchan? Este libro expresa la síntesis teórica-empírica de las luchas por el agua en México, en particular la Ciudad de México y la zona metropolitana, de una manera muy original que no imaginábamos en la década de los noventa, cuando iniciamos los primeros registros.
Otra aportación es que pone en correspondencia el proceso de las luchas por el agua en México con las transformaciones estructurales vividas en estas...
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Oubliez tout ce que vous croyez savoir sur le réchauffement climatique. La « vérité qui dérange » ne tient pas aux gaz à effet de serre, la voici: notre modèle économique est en guerre contre la vie sur Terre.
Au-delà de la crise écologique, c'est bien une crise existentielle qui est en jeu — celle d'une humanité défendant à corps perdu un mode de vie qui la mène à sa perte. Pourtant, prise à rebours, cette crise pourrait bien...
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Tucked up against the Rocky Mountains, just west of Denver, sits the remnants of one of the most notorious nuclear weapons sites in North America: Rocky Flats. With a history of environmental catastrophes, political neglect, and community-wide health crises, this site represents both one of the darkest and most controversial chapters in our nation's history, and also a conundrum on repurposing lands once considered lost. As the crush of encroaching...
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Recientemente se comprobó que el hielo del Ártico podría llegar a desaparecer mucho antes de la mitad de este siglo por el aumento de la temperatura de la tierra.
Esta circunstancia, entre otros efectos, podría desencadenar en que el calentamiento global se acelere aún más puesto que este hielo es un gran depósito de metano -el gas de efecto invernadero más poderoso-, y sirve como espejo de la radiación del sol que entra al planeta. Este...
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In this timely book, former Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham debunks the myths that warp our current debate over energy, and offers new solutions to the real problems we face in America.
Drawing on the very latest thinking from experts in industry and academia, and his own experiences running America's Energy Department, he proposes a fresh approach to meeting our daunting energy threats. This book effectively answers how America and the world...
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"Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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