Agrindex

Agrindex
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 872
Release: 1984
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Cradle to Cradle

Cradle to Cradle
Author: William McDonough
Publisher: North Point Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1429973846

A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world? In fact, why not take nature itself as our model? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we do not consider its abundance wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective; hence, "waste equals food" is the first principle the book sets forth. Products might be designed so that, after their useful life, they provide nourishment for something new-either as "biological nutrients" that safely re-enter the environment or as "technical nutrients" that circulate within closed-loop industrial cycles, without being "downcycled" into low-grade uses (as most "recyclables" now are). Elaborating their principles from experience (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, William McDonough and Michael Braungart make an exciting and viable case for change.

Practising Feminist Political Ecologies

Practising Feminist Political Ecologies
Author: Wendy Harcourt
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2015-05-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 178360090X

Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich. Offering a collective critique of the ‘green economy’, it features the latest analyses of the post-Rio+20 debates alongside a nuanced reading of the impact of the current ecological and economic crises on women as well as their communities and ecologies. This new, politically timely and engaging text puts feminist political ecology back on the map.

The El Niño Phenomenon

The El Niño Phenomenon
Author: United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher: UN
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1992
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9789211005806

An examination of the effects of, and research into, the El Nino phenomenon. Originating in the Pacific region, El Nino effects a reversal in the direction of winds and ocean currents, and changes in ocean temperature between Indonesia and the Pacific coas

DRASTIC

DRASTIC
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 622
Release: 1987
Genre: Groundwater
ISBN:

A Radical Green Political Theory

A Radical Green Political Theory
Author: Alan Carter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136290281

Original, provocative and cutting-edge Author is well-respected and well-networked Controversial and topical subject

Against War

Against War
Author: Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2008-04-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822341703

DIVAn analysis of Western attitudes toward war from a subaltern perspective that brings new insights into Western philosophical paradigms. /div

Encounters with Popular Pasts

Encounters with Popular Pasts
Author: Mike Robinson
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN: 9783319131849

This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage, whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities, as well as re-make "tradition". The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries or just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When and under what circumstances is the creation and expression of new cultural forms - popular culture - capable of being transformed into heritage?