Product Description: Presents various ways in which everyone can help protect the environment and save the earth.

Product Description: A well-stocked larder contains all those homemade essentials which do not need a refrigerator, such as cheese, pies, sausages, condiments, breads, jams and preserves. David Mabey aims to show how simple it is to make provisions like these - the cornerstones of British cookery - whether or not you have a real larder to put them in...read more

Introduces conditions on 'Spaceship Earth,' describes how the human crew has changed them, and suggests ways to help in the conservation and improvement of the environment

Offers a passionate, visionary call to enlightened consciousness that combines spiritual thought and ecological principles to promote a positive future for the planet and its inhabitants. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Starting with a review of energy use since the industrial revolution, the author analyzes the numerous threats inherent in the current approach to energy supply. He outlines how solar energy is capable of meeting all our energy needs, the consequent economic and social benefits, and addresses the counter-arguments against such a radical strategy. The final chapters cover the practical measures needed to achieve the fundamental changes implicit in this programme.

According to the author, competition does not work to protect the interests of the people, and is often at the expense of the environment. The argument is that other concerns need to be given priority and that the market needs to be controlled.

Product Description: Die Vereinten Nationen durch drei Jahrzehnte wissenschaftlich-publizistisch, aber auch politisch so loyal zu begleiten, wie dies mein Münchner Kollege Peter 1. Opitz getan hat, setzt ein bewundernswertes Maß an Idealismus, Optimismus, aber auch Leidensfähigkeitvoraus...read more

An engaging and comprehensive look at the intersection of financial innovation and the environment This unique book provides readers with a comprehensive look at the new markets being created to help companies manage environmental risks, including weather derivatives, catastrophe bonds, and emission trading permits. Filled with real-world case studies and timely advice, Environmental Finance contains corporate strategies that financial service professionals as well as their clients must understand in order to proactively improve a company's environmental performance. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In the decade since the 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janiero, the response of the world's governments and authorities to the threats to the global environment has been to enforce the reduction of energy consumption and harmful emissions - solutions primarily based around conventional energy resources and conventional thinking...read more

Product Description: Topics covered: Environmental Management , Air and Water Management , Nature and Biodiversity Management , Economy, Society and Environment , Sectoral Integration: Energy , International Co-operation This book is part of the OECD Environmental Performance Reviews Programme which conducts peer reviews of environmental conditions and progress in each member country...read more

Tells the story of two children journeying around a town, learning about the environment and how to care for it. This title shows how we can all make our world a cleaner, healthier place to live. Part of a four-level pictorial reading scheme, it helps a child learn to read and encourages a life-long love of reading Earth matters.

Did you know that changing just one high energy lightbulb to a low energy one saves 75kg of carbon dioxide a year? This book provides hundreds of practical ideas for making small changes to your lifestyle that can make a big difference to the environment.

Product Description: This book is part of the OECD Environmental Performance Reviews program that conducts peer reviews of environmental conditions and progress in each member country. The program scrutinizes efforts to meet both domestic objectives and international commitments...read more

A well-stocked larder contains all those homemade essentials which do not need a refrigerator, such as cheese, pies, sausages, condiments, breads, jams and preserves. David Mabey aims to show how simple it is to make provisions like these - the cornerstones of British cookery - whether or not you have a real larder to put them in. Why settle for dull, pasty, factory-made sausages with commercial tartrazine-coloured mustard when they can be made at home with your own course-grained condiment? This book offers over 100 recipes for breads, soft cheeses and dairy foods, bacon and cured meats, sausages, potted dishes, pies, pasties, smoked fish, condiments, jams, jellies, marmalades and ciders. It also provides an explanation of how and where these foods were first made and what place they have had in the kitchens of the past.

Product Description: "Understanding Environmental Issues will stimulate critical thinking and debate about the inextricable links between the physical and socio-political determinants of our planet's future."―Julian Agyeman, Tufts University"In a world where concrete environmental systems are in a state of change at the same time our understandings of these systems are in upheaval, teaching environmental issues has become impossible without meaningful integration of earth systems and political-economic relationships...read more

Presents 365 photographs that capture the splendors of the natural world, accompanied by practical suggestions and simple environment-friendly actions that can help protect the fragile ecosystems and wildlife of the planet.