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Investors today need to understand the dynamics of how macro and micro economies operate and how they affect the property markets. Margaret explains this theory in her trademark easy-to-understand style. The book also includes information on: • The current property landscape • Matching property with investors' profiles • Timing the markets to invest when an area is about to take off • Finding strong cash flow and capital growth investments...
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Alarmist (pre 2020): Someone who exaggerates a danger and so causes needless worry or panic.alarmist (post 2020): Someone who justifiably raises the alarm about a global danger to Earth's biosphere.
His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it' s critical.
In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist Dave Lowe was posted at an atmospheric monitoring station on the wind-blasted southern coast of New Zealand' s North Island. On a shoestring salary...
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The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this relationship impels us towards a revolutionary and as-yet undiscovered shift in strategy. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative...
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Sabiduría Conectada: Historias de todos los tiempos sobre los sistemas vivientes reúne doce cuentos de diversas culturas, cada uno de los cuales revela un ejemplo único de un "sistema viviente". A través de ellos, la autora Linda Booth Sweeney muestra que lo que hoy llamamos pensamiento de sistemas tiene una larga historia entre nosotros. Un cuento popular balinés narra la historia de una salamandra que no puede dormir debido a las chispas de...
5) Biodigestor
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En Biodigestor describimos primero de qué está compuesto el biogás y nos referimos a algunos descubrimientos científicos que contribuyeron a entender cómo se produce. Posteriormente explicamos cómo funcionan los biodigestores anaeróbicos, tecnología diseñada para producir biogás, y su uso en algunas regiones del mundo.
6) La composta
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La composta presenta el uso de composteros caseros para interiores, una alternativa para aprovechar los residuos orgánicos para hacer composta; una forma segura de transformar los residuos orgánicos en insumos para la producción agrícola o para su uso en la jardinería o en las macetas, ya sea como mejorador de suelo o como aportador de nutrientes.
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Les services rendus par les écosystèmes contribuent autant au bien-être des individus et des collectivités qu'à l'activité économique. Mais quelle est la valeur de ces actifs naturels non marchands? Une demande sociale, entrepreneuriale et institutionnelle croissante se manifeste pour de nouveaux indicateurs économiques permettant la mesure et le suivi des variations dans l'état des écosystèmes. Cette demande se traduit par une intégration...
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On the eve of its 50th anniversary, the Landscape Architecture Foundation asked a diverse group of the world's leading landscape architects to reflect on the last half-century and present bold ideas for what the discipline should achieve in the future. Well beyond the public conception of the profession as "gardener" or "park designer," these landscape architects discussed their role in addressing weighty issues like climate change, urbanization,...
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Get the Summary of Douglas W. Tallamy's ‘Nature's Best Hope’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Douglas W. Tallamy's first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step...
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In this Age of Misinformation, an increasing number of people seem to be unable or unwilling to tell facts from fiction, communicate effectively, learn from the past, think independently, or have fun with knowledge. CAUTION! Reading This Book Can Make You Think provides challenging exercises for out-of-shape brains and sharpens modern day survival skills. Is it time for a mental tune-up? Do you know: * The key difference between Bias and Prejudice?*...
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Connected Wisdom: Living Stories about Living Systems gathers twelve stories from different cultures that each reveal a unique example of a "living system." Through them, author Linda Booth Sweeney shows that what we now call systems thinking has been around for a very long time. A Balinese folktale tells the story of a gecko who cannot sleep because of the sparks from a firefly. He traces the cause of his complaint from one animal to another, and...
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At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously...
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The world's premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator, in search of clues to the history of climate change. His most innovative work has taken place on these mountain glaciers, where he collects ice cores that provide detailed information about climate history, reaching back 750,000 years. To gather significant data Thompson has spent more time in the death...
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Handbook of Environmental Sciences-Complete Questions & Answers is specially developed for Candidate under Graduate and Post Graduate Students. The Book is also equally useful for the NTA-UGC NET JRF/SET/SLET (PAPER 2) and any country Services Competitive Examination if the basic environmental science is include in the syllabus. Based on the latest pattern and syllabus, the book will prove useful for the study, practice during precious moments before...
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Acting as the planet's air conditioner, the rainforest sucks up millions of tons of greenhouse gases and stores them safely out of the atmosphere. South America's deforestation threatens to unleash a kind of "carbon bomb" that will add to our already deteriorating climate difficulties. As he travels across Peru and Brazil, recognized South America expert Nikolas Kozloff talks to locals, scientists and activists about the rainforest and what should...
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El presente libro consta de cuatro capítulos que abordan la dinámica boscosa y sus conductores, la función de las áreas protegidas en la conservación de los bosques y, finalmente, el deshielo glaciar en el departamento de Boyacá. La dinámica boscosa y sus conductores se estudian inicialmente para 2001-2010 con un sensor de teledetección de resolución espacial grueso como lo es el MODIS. En el Capítulo 2 se estudia tan solo la variación...
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La industria siderúrgica genera un sinnúmero de residuos sólidos contaminantes. Las escorias básicas (blancas) producidas durante el afino del acero en el horno cuchara, es un residuo que amerita ser investigado y valorado en sus efectos por el impacto que representa ambientalmente su disposición final y manejo. Agronómicamente se atribuye a las escorias básicas un alto potencial para controlar la acidez de suelos agrícolas limitados en su...
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Environmental Biology is designed to arrange diverse areas of environmental biology in a coherent manner. The subject matter, both as regards the arrangement of chapters as well as contents is designed to meet the requirements of the students in several Indian universities. The present book New Dimensions of Environmental Biology has been written especially to suit the need of undergraduate and post graduate students of the Indian Universities. This...
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Choose the red pill and
Escape the Meatrix
What if you suddenly discovered you were trapped inside a dystopian cult of oppression, murder, and profit-and that your greatest source of calories was an artificially invented diet created by powerful lobbies, designed to line the pockets of the 1% at the cost of your own health and the planet's very survival?
What would you do?
Escape the Meatrix chronicles Stuart Waldner's eye-opening battle against...
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This book is a pioneering effort to meet the challenging requirements of understanding environmental pollution. The book has been written especially to fill the need for a one-volume general discussion of the major types of environmental pollution-air, water, noise, solid waste, thermal, marine, and radiation pollution and their adverse effects on man and on the environment. Historical and current statistics have been included mainly from Indian,...
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