Environment

Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment

There are more than 45,000 of them in the world. They have altered the speed of the planet’s rotation, the tilt of its axis, and the shape of its gravitational…

September 22, 2016
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Cool It (Movie Tie-in Edition): The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming

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Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s…

September 22, 2016
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

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An Inconvenient Truth―Gore’s groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance―is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the…

September 22, 2016
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Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America’s Drinking Water

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Second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. The brands have become so ubiquitous that we’re hardly conscious that…

September 22, 2016
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Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert’s Peak

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With world oil production about to peak and inexorably head toward steep decline, what fuels are available to meet rising global energy demands? That question, once thought to address a…

September 22, 2016
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Category: Environment

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Sustainability

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The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

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The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch…

September 22, 2016
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Category: Environment

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Sustainability

Type: Book