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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn't exist, hidden inside a massive volcano. As she uncovers more about their past, Destry begins to question the mission she's devoted...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The national bestselling author of The God Equation traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies.
“Amazing … Kaku is in smooth perfect control of it the entire time.” —The Christian Science Monitor
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“Amazing … Kaku is in smooth perfect control of it the entire time.” —The Christian Science Monitor
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English
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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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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Right now, scientists are working on ways to minimize the catastrophic impact of global warming. But they're not designing hybrids or fuel cells or wind turbines. They're trying to lower the temperature of the entire planet--with huge contraptions that suck CO2 from the air, machines that brighten clouds and deflect sunlight, even artificial volcanoes that spray heat-reflecting particles into the atmosphere. This is the radical and controversial world...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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In an effort to rethink our responses to the crisis of global warming, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring proposals for planned human intervention in the climate system: a stratospheric veil against the sun, the cultivation of photosynthetic plankton, fleets of unmanned ships seeding the clouds--all technologies of the new field of "geoengineering." In The planet remade, journalist Oliver Morton explores the history,...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 Data Quality Objectives; 2.1.2 Monitoring Plan Example; 2.1.3 Selection of a Monitoring Site; 2.2 Environmental Sampling Approaches; 2.2.1 Sampling Approaches; 2.3 Laboratory Analysis; 2.3.1 Extraction; 2.3.2 Separation Science; 2.4 Sources of Uncertainty; 2.5 Measurements and Models; 2.6 Contaminants of Concern; 2.7 Environmental Indicators; 2.7.1 Oxygen; 2.7.2 Indices; 2.8 Emerging Trends in Measurement; 2.8.1 Sensors; 2.8.2...
10) Going green
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Learn simple and easy tips to make your library and its services more environmentally friendly. The program is divided into two sections. One features tips and strategies for building a new, green library building, while the other discusses ways to make your current facilities more environmentally friendly. Included in the program are tips on "green" programming, environmentally-friendly cleaning policies, and simple tips that can be used by any library....
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Publisher
RIBA publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
Description
The argument for low-cost, zero-energy, zero-waste architecture has never been timelier, while the mainstream has largely abandoned or neglected this agenda: in the UK the recent mandatory zero-carbon performance targets for new homes have been postponed or forgotten at a time when thousands of new homes will be built, and there is already a shortage of electric generating capacity. This book offers a forceful challenge to the current addiction to...
12) Time to think small: how nimble environmental technologies can solve the planet's biggest problems
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Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A guide to how small technologies can solve environmental problems in ways unimaginable just a decade ago"--
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Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
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How can we combat climate warming? Some scientists say geoengineeringinterfering with Earth's systems to counteract climate changeis the answer. Explore ideas such as reforestation, space mirrors, and carbon capture, and learn about the pros and cons of these controversial technologies.
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Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Trash is America's largest export. Individually, we make more than four pounds a day, sixty-four tons across a lifetime. We make so much of it that trash dominates America's place in the global economy--now the most prized product made in the United States. In 2010, China's number-one export to the U.S. was computer equipment. America's two biggest exports...
16) Bites back
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Series
Project Terra volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Elara just wants to learn how to build new worlds with her best friends Knot, Beezle, Sabik, and her alien-sponge roommate, Clare. But when an evil time-hopping force threatens to take down the galactic order, Elara's 'normal' school year might turn into something weird"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Environmentally Sustainable Construction is a philosophy for designing and constructing homes and communities. By incorporating these principles, architects, designers, builders and tradesmen can create a living environment that is truly sustainable. Each chapter in the DVD is devoted to separate concepts that combine to contribute to the overall philosophy.
18) Crash course
Author
Series
Project Terra volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Elara from the planet "Nowhere" begins school at the Academy of Terraforming Arts, where she befriends Clare, a mute intergalactic sponge, and learns how to farm in space without blowing up planets.
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Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Green and Environmental Careers - Career Collection Spotlight
STEM Careers - Career Collection Spotlight
STEM Careers - Career Collection Spotlight
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"Emphasis on environmental issues has made high-tech careers related to the environment and energy technology among the fastest growing occupations in the United States. Comments from people in the industry, current statistics and forecasts, and realistic descriptions provide a useful look at high-tech environmental and energy technology jobs ranging from fuel cell engineers to environmental analysts to renewable energy project developers"--Amazon.com....
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
1. Retrofitting suburbia: Dr. Richard Jackson MD MPH, investigates the link between our nations obesity and Type 2 Diabetes epidemic with urban sprawl fueled by car dependency. To prevent disease through better urban planning, Boulder, CO redesigns the city to make bicycles a safe alternative transportation. Two Denver suburbs transform dead malls into --2. Rebuilding places of the heart: When U.S. industry and manufacturing collapsed or went elsewhere,...
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