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Cash For Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America
ISBN: 9780813546940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Over the past two decades, concern about the environment has brought with it a tremendous increase in recycling in the United States and around the world. For many, it has become not only a civic, but also a moral obligation. Long before our growing levels of waste became an environmental concern, however, recycling was a part of everyday life for many Americans, and for a variety of reasons. From rural peddlers who traded kitchen goods for scrap metal to urban children who gathered rags in exchange for coal, individuals have been finding ways to reuse discarded materials for hundreds of...
Over the past two decades, concern about the environment has brought with it a tremendous increase in recycling in the United States and around the wo...
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151,53 |
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Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9781421421865 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Besides being the right thing to do for Mother Earth, recycling can also make money--particularly when it comes to upcycling, a zero waste practice where discarded materials are fashioned into goods of greater economic or cultural value. In Upcycling Aluminum, Carl A. Zimring explores how the metal's abundance after World War II--coupled with the significant economic and environmental costs of smelting it from bauxite ore--led to the industrial production of valuable durable goods from salvaged aluminum. Beginning in 1886 with the discovery of how to mass produce aluminum,... Besides being the right thing to do for Mother Earth, recycling can also make money--particularly when it comes to upcycling, a zero waste practice... |
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169,79 |
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Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
ISBN: 9781479826940 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him -clean and articulate, - he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race and waste have shaped where people have lived, where people have worked, and how American society's wastes have been managed. Clean and White offers a history of...
When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him -clean and articulate, - he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive rac...
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400,80 |
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Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: Encyc Consumption and Waste
ISBN: 9781412988193 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 1224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by behavioral scientists who use data com-piled from the exploration of dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. Why does the average American household send 470 pounds of uneaten food to the garbage can on an annual basis? How do different societies around the world cope with their garbage in...
Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining w...
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Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
ISBN: 9781479874378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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127,03 |
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Coastal Metropolis: Environmental Histories of Modern New York City
ISBN: 9780822946526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Technology and the Environment in History
ISBN: 9781421438993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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