| The Truth About Climate Change
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| Thursday, 10 November 2011 06:00 |
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David Attenborough's engaging BBC documentary details the plight of our world at the hands of our ever-changing climate.
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This book outlines the social experiences of living in green built environments. Focusing on social sustainability, it showcases some extraordinary communities across North America paying particular attention to communities that have integrated social and human factors into their design.
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The Rise of Conservation in South Africa is an innovative contribution to the growing comparative field of environmental history. Beinart's major theme is the history of conservationist ideas in South Africa. He focuses largely on the livestock farming districts of the semi-arid Karoo and the neighboring eastern Cape grasslands, conquered and occupied by white settlers before the middle of the nineteenth century. The Cape, like Australia, became a major exporter of wool. Vast numbers of sheep flooded its plains and rapidly transformed its fragile natural pastures
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|  This is the first in what is bound to become a whole new book genre – the ecoguide. It sets out not merely some of the best and most beautiful places to see in our extraordinary country, but points the local or foreign traveller to those which are more than less attempting to become sustainable in their practices and eco-friendliness. All the usual sorts of things one would expect to find in a travel guide are to be found, except in this one everything has a greener slant. Expect more of the same coming soon.Emilia le Roux & Francois Smuts
August Sycholt Briza
ISBN 978 1 875093 60 1 |
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|  This much is known and, more or less, is beyond reasonable contention: at current rates of ice melt-off, by 2050 the sea will have risen globally by 2-3 feet (or between about 60 and 90cms), leaving most coastal cities that can afford to, fighting a constantly rising tide with levees, dykes, floodgates and the like while also inexorably losing the battle to maintain their underground infrastructures
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| OCEANS
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| Monday, 09 August 2010 06:00 |
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Written as a companion piece to the acclaimed film of the same name, this one’s subtitle is: The threats to our seas and what you can do to turn the tide.
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Ignoring the bleating from the lunatic fringe and those in the pay of carbondependant interests, the fact is that the vast majority of scientists now agree that human-induced climate change is a reality which is dawning upon us.
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| YOU ARE HERE
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| Wednesday, 30 June 2010 06:00 |
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|  Written by the co-author of the New York Times Bestseller The Green Book, this one is designed to drive home the point that each one of us
is individually responsible for the very fragile state of the planet; but also, each one of us has an as-yet not fully grasped capacity to alter
the environmental balance towards a far more sustainable future.
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One can only wish that there existed such a wonderful book (tempting to describe as coffee table-type, but really not an accurate characterisation) decades ago when our
gorgeous planet began to react to more than a century of intensive industrialisation. But back then satellite technology was only just on the horizon, as it were, and
not made routinely available to us, either in images or in terms of what are now everyday facilities like cell phones, the internet and satellite TV.
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Move over, Eat Local. Kate Heyhoe challenges us to reduce our other food-related carbon footprint — our “cookprint.” Heyhoe’s latest book, Cooking Green, is based on the idea that how we cook can make as much an environmental difference as what we cook.
The book covers many of the current issues like food choices, food miles, food labels and sustainable seafood choices. It also ventures into some new territory with information on reducing packaging waste, greenest kitchen tools, kitchen waste and how to store foods to get the longest life from them.
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Just like many other social phenomena that are good for the environment, the exploding trend of people growing their own chickens in the backyard has its naysayers. Naysayers come in a wide variety of stripes. For example, the widespread understanding that global warming is real and that we’re causing it has its naysayers, many of whom stand to lose a lot of money when their oil and coal has to internalize the cost of the pollution they’ve been making us pay for since their inception. Or those that say that electric cars are not realistic…sure there are naysayers…wait, is there a trend here that the oil industry is against everything good? Hmm…
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