wyszukanych pozycji: 33
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Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
ISBN: 9780393337198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, we have begun investing in energy sources that can last forever. Plan B 4.0 explores both the nature of this transition to a new energy economy and how it will affect our daily lives.
As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is e...
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67,65 |
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The Twenty Ninth Day
ISBN: 9780393056730 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The global lily pond in which four billion of us live may already be half full. Although UN projections show world population continuing to grow until it reaches ten to sixteen billion, Lester Brown believes this is unrealistic. In this fascinating analysis of the fisheries, forests, grasslands, and croplands--the author shows that the demands at current levels of population and per capita consumption often exceed the long-term carrying capacity. He documents the overfishing, deforestation, and overgrazing that are gradually undermining human life support systems. He also explains that with...
The global lily pond in which four billion of us live may already be half full. Although UN projections show world population continuing to grow until...
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104,57 |
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Vital Signs 1997
ISBN: 9780393316377 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This annual volume from Brown and the Worldwatch Institute concisely presents the good news, the bad news, and some surprises about the health of our planet and civilization. Worldwatch's award-winning researchers have culled information from around the globe to come up with key indicators that best track change in the environmental, economic, and social health of the world. Graphs & tables.
This annual volume from Brown and the Worldwatch Institute concisely presents the good news, the bad news, and some surprises about the health of our ...
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85,20 |
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Tough Choices: Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity
ISBN: 9780393315738 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a world where the need for seafood and grain for the 90 million people being added each year is being satisfied in part by reducing consumption among those already here, the world has little choice but to try and quickly slow population growth. Historically, farmers and fishermen bore the primary responsibility for balancing supply and demand. Now with the fish catch no longer expanding and with the growth in grain production slowing, the principal responsibility rests with the family planners.
In a world where the need for seafood and grain for the 90 million people being added each year is being satisfied in part by reducing consumption amo...
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73,57 |
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Earth Policy Reader
ISBN: 9780393324068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Brown explains, for example, why wind-generated electricity with its abundance and falling cost is emerging as the foundation of the new post-fossil fuel energy economy: now cheaper than electricity from coal, oil, or natural gas, it can be used to electrolyze water and produce hydrogen, the fuel of choice for the new fuel cell engines that every major automobile manufacturer is working on. And since an eco-economy relies heavily on recycling materials already in the system, such as steel and aluminum, we learn how, in this new economy, recycling industries will largely replace mining... Brown explains, for example, why wind-generated electricity with its abundance and falling cost is emerging as the foundation of the new post-fossi... |
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96,82 |
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Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet
ISBN: 9780393314090 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In an integrated world economy, China's rising food prices will become the world's rising food prices. China's land scarcity will become everyone's land scarcity. And water scarcity in China will affect the entire world. China's dependence on massive imports, like the collapse of the world's fisheries, will be a wake-up call that we are colliding with the earth's capacity to feed us. It could well lead us to redefine national security away from military preparedness and toward maintaining adequate food supplies.
In an integrated world economy, China's rising food prices will become the world's rising food prices. China's land scarcity will become everyone's la...
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73,57 |
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State of the World 2000
ISBN: 9780393319989 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The newest volume in the annual series that has become the bible of the global environmental movement--and indispensable for anyone concerned with the future of our world. State of the World 2000 provides national leaders and concerned citizens with a comprehensive framework for the global debate about our future in the new century. This annual survey by the award-winning Worldwatch Institute has become an invaluable analysis of negative environmental trends and a guide to emerging solutions. The book shows how our current fossil-fueled, auto-centered, throwaway economy is steadily destroying...
The newest volume in the annual series that has become the bible of the global environmental movement--and indispensable for anyone concerned with the...
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112,32 |
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Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy
ISBN: 9780393308235 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The authors of the highly acclaimed State of the World series elaborate upon their vision of a global economy that does not destroy its own natural support systems. Authoritative yet extremely readable, this book addresses control of energy resources, population, poverty, transportation, taxes, and other issues necessary to create an environmenatally sound global economy.
The authors of the highly acclaimed State of the World series elaborate upon their vision of a global economy that does not destroy its own natural su...
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85,20 |
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Eco-Economy: Building a New Economy for the Environmental Age
ISBN: 9780393321937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the view that the Sun revolved around the Earth, arguing instead that the Earth revolved around the Sun. His paper led to a revolution in thinking to a new worldview. "Eco-Economy" discusses the need today for a similar shift in our worldview. The issue now is whether the environment is part of the economy or the economy is part of the environment. Lester R. Brown argues the latter, pointing out that treating the environment as part of the economy has produced an economy that is destroying its natural support systems. Brown notes that...
In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the view that the Sun revolved around the Earth, arguing instead that the Earth revolved aro...
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100,70 |
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Full House: Reassessing the Earth’s Population Carrying Capacity
ISBN: 9781032548401 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1995, this book was written at a time when the world’s food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. This book examines the causes of the imbalance in the food/population equation and suggests ways in which Malthusian checks can be countered. Originally published in 1995, this book was written at a time when the world’s food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. ... |
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469,97 |
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Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege
ISBN: 9780465017812 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A dissection of the Soviet Union's legacy of health and environmental disaster, this book examines a former country of 103 cities - home to 70 million people - where the air is unfit to breathe and pollution fouls 75 percent of the water.
A dissection of the Soviet Union's legacy of health and environmental disaster, this book examines a former country of 103 cities - home to 70 million...
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96,82 |
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Beyond Malthus: The Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge
ISBN: 9781138164437 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On the bicentennial of Malthus' legendary essay on the tendency of population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, this book examines the impacts of population growth on 19 global resources and services, including food, fresh water, fisheries, jobs, education, income and health. Despite current hype of a 'birth dearth' in parts of Europe and Japan, the fact remains that human numbers are projected to increase by over 3 billion by 2050. Populations in rapidly growing nations are in danger of outstripping the carrying capacity of their natural support systems and governments in such...
On the bicentennial of Malthus' legendary essay on the tendency of population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, this book examines the impact...
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766,88 |
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The Earth Policy Reader: Today's Decisions, Tomorrow's World
ISBN: 9781138411333 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this study, the award-winning environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues have charted progress in building the eco-economy - an economy in harmony with the Earth's ecosystems, not undermining them. This edition of the biennial reader highlights 12 key trends, from population growing by 80 million annually, to ice melting, to the boom in use of solar cells. It explains, for example, why wind-generated electricity is emerging as the foundation of the new post-fossil fuel energy economy. It also specifically investigates China's desertification problem, the issues surrounding food...
In this study, the award-winning environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues have charted progress in building the eco-economy - an economy ...
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940,04 |