Ecology category: 3266 books
by Chip Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Long-overdue foundation to critical global issue that is Peak Oil. With a deceptively light-hearted and witty tone, Haynes reveals how deeply connected oil is to virtually everything we buy and use, how looming scarcity will change how we live, and what we can do to prepare. After all, after Peak...
by John Meier
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
50% of all author proceeds from this book are donated to environmental causes.
It is written by former Howard Hughes aide and world recognized environmentalist John Meier.
Written in 1970 for the 1st Earth Day, it is re-released now for the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day as Meier finds...
Data, facts, background and hypotheses with participatory actions about the of wild bee dying, flying insect dying and honey bee dying – and becoming extinct
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
The dramatic death of wild bees is further elucidated in facts and theses. For this purpose, researchers have been contacted in the media, and scientists have been contacted internationally, which is possible thanks to the Internet quickly and easily. Bee dying can be observed all over the world,...
Understanding Nature Vol. 2: Fun Outdoor Activities for Kids
Understanding Nature, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
This is the second volume in the Understanding Nature series. My purpose for writing this volume is to encourage young people to get outdoors and enjoy the natural world. The benefits are many - exercise and fresh air, sparking curiosity and stimulating the imagination, developing a healthy attitude...
Cause and Correlation in Biology
A User's Guide to Path Analysis, Structural Equations and Causal Inference with R
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Many problems in biology require an understanding of the relationships among variables in a multivariate causal context. Exploring such cause-effect relationships through a series of statistical methods, this book explains how to test causal hypotheses when randomised experiments cannot be performed....
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This is the only book which deals with the correlatory comparison between hierarchical living systems and inorganic physical ones. The culmination of the book is the proposition of research to discover and understand the natural underlying level of organization which produces the descriptive commonality...
Something to Believe In
Creating Trust and Hope in Organisations: Stories of Transparency, Accountability and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
In a world where trust in politicians, corporations and the processes that determine our lives continues to dwindle, this innovative book brings together research, case studies and stories that begin to answer a central question for society: How we can create organisations, institutions, groups and...
by Bob Waldrop
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This is a good-life design guide forMillennials, Boomers, and Generation X.Contains strategies, tools, and techniques to help you navigate the cardinal threatsof peak oil, climate instability,economic irrationality, and political criminality.iPermie is an almanac of useful information...
Digging the City
An Urban Agriculture Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
At the last census in 2006, just over 80 percent of Canada’s population lived in urban centres. How we feed that population and protect its food sources is an enduring subject of debate in food security circles these days. As consumers and citizens, we all need to take a hard look at the deficiencies...
by Allan Savory, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
While viewing the impending threat of climate change, Allan Savory invites the audience to take a global view of the current situation of...
Sustainability
Making your life a little greener in the middle of the city
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
In recent years, the way to plan and develop large urban centers has changed drastically. Around the world, there are proven models to build more lively, ecologic and safer cities, which offer a high quality of life to all its inhabitants.
How to Survive Civilization
Reconstruction by Way of The Soil
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
They have already come to learn that this age, so distinguished for its scientific progress and its widespread knowledge has, in spite of these advantages, completely failed in its promise of peace and prosperity. Even in such vital social problems as feeding and employment, it has failed and failed...
Grass Productivity
An Introduction to Rational Grazing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
SIMPLE questions often help us to understand problems better; and I think it indispensable, at the beginning of this work, to ask a question which appears simple in the extreme:
“What is grazing?”
The answer is generally as follows:
“Causing grass to be eaten by an animal.”...
Soil Fertility, Animal Health
With "The Loss of Soil Organic Matter and Its Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Nature works and has been working for a billion and a half years—ever since there were living things on earth. This is important. We talk of controlling nature, but any wise farmer or stockman knows that nature makes the rules for us to learn and follow, if we can. In short, the ecologist is in...