Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Environmental - General

Fool Willing is a playful, practical guide for welcoming and including all communities at the "green table." Putting a happy little kid, a salsa-dancing event planner, and Jane Goodall in the same room,...

Satellite Meteorology is the youngest and fastest growing branch of the science of meteorology and the present book traces its fascinating history, describes the current state of art, and envisions its potential and possibilities. The last decade has witnessed a significant improvement in the accuracy of short and medium range weather forecasting the world over, particularly in the tropics. Numerical weather prediction models seem to be taking over from synoptic meteorologists and may even be doing better. With the support of high power computers, numerical models have indeed become...

Welcome to the first in a series of books that showcases writings from Zygote Quarterly magazine. The Science of Seeing collects firsthand reports from the field by ZQ columnist Adelheid Fischer. Whether tromping across the slopes of the Mount St. Helens volcano, bending into a listening crouch in the night-time desert, or peering into an ephemeral pool, Fischer compounds our awe for the natural world and deepens our admiration for the men and women who study it.

"Once you meet the stars of these essays--outrageously tactile moles, volcano-healing spiders,...

This book will offer an optimistic collection of opportunities and practical policies that support beneficial solutions and open a wide horizon into a better, sustainable world. It is people who can and should move our civilization into the new direction - as they simultaneously create and live a new, enlightened philosophy.

Part One of this Report offers a descriptive diagnosis of the non-sustainable trends of our time. The Earths "planetary boundaries," established by physics, are in danger of being destroyed by the selfish priority of feeding human "need." The...