Pollution
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 Ecological FootprintManaging Our Biocapacity Budget |
Our economy is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet. We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish. Like any such scheme, this works for a … | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 290 | 2019 | View |
 Fighting DirtyHow a Small Community Took on Big Trash |
Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a … | Poh-Gek Forkert | 208 | 2017 | View |
 From Hiroshima to Fukushima to YouA Primer on Radiation and Health |
The bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, brought radiation to international attention but the exact nature of what had been unleashed was still unclear to most. The 1986 meltdown at the … | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 216 | 2014 | View |
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From IntroductionFootprint: Why? From: Ecological Footprint |
- | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From Preface |
Preface | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 4 | 2014 | $0.40 Add |
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From PrefaceFrom: Fighting Dirty |
- | Poh-Gek Forkert | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From Area as CurrencyHow Much Biocapacity Does a Person Need? From: Ecological Footprint |
A deeper introduction to the Footprint, explaining the underlying physical principles and idea of accounting. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From From the Lab to the TrenchesFrom: Fighting Dirty |
The author talks about how he came to join the fight between a small but determined group of rural folks and the biggest garbage company in the world, which happened when he agreed to work as a … | Poh-Gek Forkert | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From Introduction |
Introduction | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From Chapter 1Historical Background |
This chapter includes the following sections: Mysterious Sickness – Discovery – Early Effects on Health – Radiation Protection Measures – Effect of Hiroshima and Nagasaki … | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From David vs. GoliathFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter explores how, as the public consultation process developed, so did opposition from local citizens. In this instance, Goliath is the dump currently owned by Waste Management of Canada … | Poh-Gek Forkert | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From Ecological HinterlandHow much Biocapacity Does a City Need? From: Ecological Footprint |
This chapter uses the city lens – explaining a city metabolism and its requirement of distant ecosystems to operate. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Paradox of AgricultureFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
The paradox of agriculture. Our image of what we want farming to be and the reality of what it has become. The words unsustainable, dangerous, inhumane, dehumanizing, and toxic are barely … | Gary S. Kleppel | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Water, Water, Clean Water — But Not EverywhereFrom: Canada after Harper |
Maude Barlow next focuses on the alarming shrinkage and pollution of Canada’s fresh water supply, a precious resource which lacks the effective laws and regulations needed to protect it | Maude Barlow | 13 | 2015 | $1.30 Add |
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From  When Things Bite Back: Some Unintended Consequences of Modern TechnologyFrom: Techno-Fix |
When Things Bite Back explores, in depth, some of the many unintended environmental and social consequences of modern technologies, ranging from environmental pollution, global warming, species … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 38 | 2011 | $3.80 Add |
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From Chapter 2Radiation Science |
This chapter includes the following sections: Atoms – Radioactive Decay – Types of Radiation – Half-Life – Background Radiation – Units of Measurement | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 16 | 2014 | $1.60 Add |
