Ecology category: 3266 books

Land Restoration: Reclaiming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future provides a holistic overview of land degradation and restoration in that it addresses the issue of land restoration from the scientific and practical development points of view. Furthermore, the breadth of chapter topics and contributors...

The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects.

Can you live without creating waste? How about doing it while saving money and living a better life? These are the questions many people may ask, however most of them just simply does not know how to start doing it. This interesting book is about to give you the answers with some great tips and ideas...

On a sunny October morning in 1999, three friends set off to find the source of their local creek, the Merri. Starting where the Merri joins the Yarra River, they followed the watercourse through city, suburbs, outer industrial wastelands, farmscapes and the foothills of the Great Divide. Temples, goddesses,...

Damanhur and Damanhurians: Here is a guide to the Federation of Communities and its many aspects: spirituality, research, art, sustainability, politics and solidarity, which have characterized this unique experience in the world for 40 years. With practical information for a visit, a course or a period of regeneration on this magical land.

This ebook provides practical information on wind energy, with information on design, development, and financing, small wind power consumer guide for homeowners and businesses, federal government incentives for development, plans and programs, siting and environmental issues, and much more. Introduction to Wind Energy; Small Wind Electric Systems - U.S. Consumer's Guide; more.

Priscilla Short lived off the grid for a year in a strawbale house in Taos NM with no electricity no running water and a wood burning stove for heat. At the end of the year Short returned home to Denver committed to making a smaller ecological footprint by consuming less and conserving more. In Thrifty...

Climate change is a major challenge for us all, but for African countries it represents a particular threat. This book outlines current thinking and evidence and the impact such change will have on Africa's development prospects. Global warming above the level of two degrees Celsius would be enormously...

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses. Using Bernard Lonergan’s functional specialization method, developed to facilitate collaboration among specialists, Raymaker and Durrani not only analyze data and rebut the claims of climate change...

These two books explain each other. The first is a fictional account, based on the science behind agriculture. The second is a shortened explanation of that science. When you read his fiction-based-on-fact, you can get moved by the drama, but also get educated meanwhile. Even...

POULTRY production is commonly practiced on every farm, but profitable poultry production so far as the farm is concerned, is rare indeed. No one, as a rule, has better natural conditions for poultry raising than has the farmer. It is only a matter of embracing opportunities that is wanting. This...

Want to save money on your monthly electricity bill? Well, solar energy can be the answer to this. This ebook compiles tons of tips from REAL solar energy users, sharing how they start using solar energy and what devices you can tap the solar energy and use. Read through this ebook,...

Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive—the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth—and both possess a vast amount of natural biodiversity. At the same time, both nations...

We live in a diverse world.We have people who believe in science, read/learn to see what's going on and then act on what we need to do to help our planet heal. But there also those that still question it. What is it going to hurt if we make our Earth clean and green? But if we do nothing we will...