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Publisher
Potowmack Chapter
Pub. Date
2002-
Language
English
Description
The Virginia Native Plant Society (VNPS), founded in 1982 as the Virginia Wildflower Preservation Society, is a nonprofit organization of individuals who share an interest in Virginia's native plants and habitats. The Potowmack chapter newsletter contains news and events of the Society and news related to conserving wildflowers and wild places in the counties of Arlington, Fairfax and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, and Falls Church.
Author
Publisher
Countryman Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"The coastal wilderness of Virginia is the last unspoiled barrier island ecosystem in the eastern United States. A beaded chain of eighteen islands separates the inland shore from the Atlantic, and in this zone of protected waters lives a startling array of plants and animals. Salt Tide is about the shore, its habits and creatures, and its fragile ecology. As he writes about looking for milky ribbon worms in the mudflats or paddling through spartina...
Author
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The United States has pledged to the world community a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 26--28 percent below 2005 levels in 2025. Because much of this reduction must come from electric utilities, especially coal-fired power plants, coal states will make or break the U.S. commitment to emissions reduction. In Climate of Capitulation, Vivian Thomson offers an insider's account of how power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state...
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