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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch:...
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Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"For more than a century, we have relied on chemical cures to keep our bodies free from disease and our farms free from bugs and weeds. We rarely consider human and agricultural health together, but both are based on the same ecology, and both are being threatened by organisms that have evolved to resist our antibiotics and pesticides. Patients suffer from C.diff, a painful, potentially lethal gut infection associated with multiple rounds of antibiotics;...
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Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A stand-out from the sea of despairing messages about climate change, well-known sustainability elder John Todd, who has taught, mentored, and inspired such well-known names in the field as Janine Benyus, Bill McKibben, and Paul Hawken, chronicles the different ecological interventions he has created over the course of his career. Each chapter offers a workable engineering solution to an existing environmental problem: healing the aftermath of mountain-top...
4) Eco cars
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Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Find out what it takes to put together the perfect eco car.
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Scientific investigations report volume 20165004
Publisher
U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Series
U.S. Geological Survey open-file report volume 2016-1001
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English