You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
This book was written in fulfillment of a Masters thesis in English Literature at Mercy College.
Think you know all about how your stuff impacts the environment? Think again! Where did all our “stuff” come from? And where does it go when we’re done with it? Kids find out by tracking the life cycles of typical items in a school backpack — water, food, clothing, paper, plastic, metals and electronics. Though they all end as waste, there are lots of decisions to be made along the way. And kids will see that there’s an important, constructive role they can play by making choices that are good for them — and for the planet! A cotton T-shirt. A plastic water bottle. A cell phone. Kids will never look at their stuff the same way again!
Global material crises are imminent. In the very near future, recycling will no longer be a choice made by those concerned about the environment, but a necessity for all. This means a paradigm shift in domestic behavior, manufacturing, construction, and design is inevitable. The Architecture of Waste provides a hopeful outlook through examining current recycling practices, rethinking initial manufacturing techniques, and proposing design solutions for second lives of material-objects. The book touches on a variety of inescapable issues beyond our global waste crisis including cultural psyches, politics, economics, manufacturing, marketing, and material science. A series of crucial perspectiv...
EBOOK: Principles and Practice of Marketing, 9e
The next revolution in business will provide for a sustainable future, from founder, CEO and circular economy expert Ron Gonen Our take-make-waste economy has cost consumers and taxpayers billions while cheating us out of a habitable planet. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The Waste-Free World makes a persuasive, forward-looking case for a circular economic model, a “closed-loop” system that wastes no natural resources. Entrepreneur, CEO and sustainability expert Ron Gonen argues that circularity is not only crucial for the planet but holds immense business opportunity. As the founder of an investment firm focused on the circular economy, Gonen reveals brilliant innovations emergin...
Fountains of Granada is a graphic documentary, a work created in order to provide information about the public fountains around the historic and most beautiful spots in the city. It is divided in four itineraries designed to reveal the small fountains of the Alhambra, the Albaicín, the Realejo and the historic centre of Granada. These artistic structures were erected in order to fill the jugs and pitchers which quenched the thirst of the inhabitants of palaces and that of the citizens in streets and squares. Works of art, commemorative monuments and modest hydraulic structures which still today fulfil their main purpose: provide drinking water. The book includes about one hundred exclusive photos arranged four itineraries which traverse the water network
This is a guide to the most usual species of birds to be found in the Spanish national park ‘Parque Nacional de Doñana’, which includes index, cards, pictures, descriptions, and scientific and vernacular designations. Amongst everglades, reserves, sand dunes and beaches, River Guadalquivir creates a paradise inhabited by birds originating from Europe and Africa. It is a 543 square kilometres area holding survival for part of the fauna and flora in the whole world. This is a guidebook to help you learn about the species that inhabit in the Doñana National Park and its surroundings, in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. It contains 150 cards including exclusive pictures made by the authors themselves. These cards hold the data and characteristics of the species, with the scientific and vernacular names. It is a basic, fundamental booklet in order to watch the bird life in this privileged territory, considered to be the major biodiversity space in the south of Europe, involving marshlands, woods, beaches and everglades.
As populations continue to increase, society produces more and more waste. Yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to build new landfills, and the existing landfills are causing significant environmental damage. Finding solutions is not simple; the problem is enormous in size, vital in terms of its impact on the environment, and complex in scope. This book provides a vast look at solid waste management in North America and seeks solutions to the waste crisis. It describes the magnitude and complexity of the problem, focusing on municipal wastes and placing them in the perspective of other wastes such as hazardous, biochemical, and radioactive debris. It describes the components of an integ...
Rapid industrialization is a serious concern in the context of a healthy environment. With the growth in the number of industries, the waste generated is also growing exponentially. The various chemical processes operating in the manufacturing industry generate a large number of by-products, which are largely harmful and toxic pollutants and are generally discharged into the natural water bodies. Once the pollutants enter the environment, they are taken up by different life forms, and because of bio-magnification, they affect the entire food chain and have severe adverse effects on all life forms, including on human health. Although, various physico-chemical and biological approaches are ava...
A "powerful and indispensable" look at the devastating consequences of environmental racism (Gerald Markowitz) -- and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities. Did you know... Middle-class African American households with incomes between $50,000 and $60,000 live in neighborhoods that are more polluted than those of very poor white households with incomes below $10,000. When swallowed, a lead-paint chip no larger than a fingernail can send a toddler into a coma -- one-tenth of that amount will lower his IQ. Nearly two of every five African American homes in Baltimore are plagued by lead-based paint. Almost all of the 37,500 Baltimore children who suffered lead po...