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Very Helpfull
If you're interested in design for water and waste water treatment I recommend this text for you ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    2. Engineering - Civil    3. Environmental Engineering & Technology    4. Handbooks, manuals, etc    5. Hydrology    6. Mathematics    7. Purification    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Waste Disposal And Treatment    12. Water    13. Water Supply And Treatment    14. Water-supply    15. Mathematics for scientists & engineers    16. Reference works    17. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical    18. Water supply & treatment   

Editorial Review

Paper or plastic? Cloth or disposable? Regular or organic? Every day, environmentally conscious consumers are faced with the overwhelming catch-22 of a capitalist society--reconciling the harm we do by consuming, while still providing ourselves and our families with the goods and services we need. It's enough to make a city dweller crazy. Fret no more! The Union of Concerned Scientists has put together a well-researched and eminently practical guide to the decisions that matter. The authors hope that the book will help you set priorities, stop worrying about insignificant things, and understand the real environmental impacts of household decisions. For instance, you may be surprised to learn that buying and eating meat and poultry is much more harmful to the environment than the packaging the meat is wrapped in, even if it's Styrofoam. This guide takes on both sides of the consumer-impact argument, goring sacred cows of the environmentalist movement (like the strident emphasis on recycling) and the industrialist perspective (like the relentless message to buy more, more, more). If you're confused and overwhelmed by all the environmental decision-making in the modern world, you'll find new inspiration in this book. Read more

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Pratical Advice
This book offers a lot of scientific input of our environmental problems, but I think it also gives people a choice to whether they want to make it. I would say that this is a helpful book in gearing people to make smarter choices, but at the same time almost tells people that somethings are not a big deal. Which can be debated.Read it and enjoy.

Strange omission
This was an interesting enough book, if slightly repetitive. The best part about it was telling people not to sweat the small stuff like deciding between paper and plastic bags. But what I found particularly odd was that there was absolutely no mention of cigarettes anywhere. It's strange because tobacco is a crop like fruits and vegetables and therefore effects land use, water pollution, and stuff like that. It's clearly a personal health risk (cancer), and it may contribute to air pollution since there's tar and other toxic chemicals that are released into the air when they're smoked. I can't believe it's more important to eat organic foods than to stop smoking. Why such a glaring omission??

great and practical advice
i agree with all the other reviewers.
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Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Consumer Behavior    3. Consumer Behavior - Consumer Guides    4. Consumer goods    5. Environmental Conservation & Protection - General    6. Environmental Engineering (General)    7. Environmental Science    8. Environmental aspects    9. Green products    10. Nature    11. Nature/Ecology    12. United States    13. Consumer guides & advice    14. Environmentalist thought & ideology    15. Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection   

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Rethinking is the right word
Being an environmentalist isn't just about enjoying the outdoors or recycling.This is an in depth study of the complex interactions between humans and our world and an examination of our historical and cultural relationship with our environment.In particular, I found the discussion of our meaning for the word and our concept of nature to be particularly enlightening.There is simply no place in the world that isn't touched by human impact and noone on the planet who isn't touched by our environment and what we do to it. A MUST for anyone serious about the study of environmental study.

the result of a year-long project in critical thinking
Cronan has done it again!This volume of essays critically examines the concept of wilderness, nature, and humanity's role in the modern world.Though the individual essays are somewhat uneven, the main theme of thebook is clearly communicated, especially in Cronan's introductory piece. That is, that the concept of wilderness needs careful rethinking,particularly with our world nearing 10 billion persons. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Environmental Science    2. Environmental movement    3. Environmental policy    4. Environmentalism    5. General    6. History - General History    7. History: World    8. United States    9. Conservation of the environment    10. History of ideas, intellectual history    11. Human ecology    12. Pollution & threats to the environment   

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Keep this in your pack.
This book is the best starting place for those wishing to learn about wilderness survival.The book is well organized and a pleasure to read.The subject matter can be dry, but Mr. Brown does a good job of interlacing his personal experiences with the instructional material.There are two reasons I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5. 1)I think it could use more diagrams and pictures.Without an instructor by your side it would be easy to misunderstand some of the more technical skills covered.2) This book is mainly for temperate regions.While much of the material is useful for any climate, it is missing tropical and artic specific information. Mr. Brown's knowledge of survival and tracking techniques is second to none.His field guides should be on every outdoor enthusiast's book shelf, and this book should be in your pack with you at all times.

Credit well deserved in this "have it all" guide.
I must give credit where deserved and Tom Brown, Jr. certainly deserves it.
Some good nuggets, largely impractical
In my experience, wilderness survival books come in at least two distinct flavors: from-scratch survival (like this book) and practical outdoors education.
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Subjects:  1. Nature    2. Nature/Ecology    3. Outdoor life    4. Reference    5. Wilderness survival    6. NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS    7. Nature / Ecology   

Editorial Review

Is there really a population crisis looming due to reduced human sperm counts?Is there anything we can do about it?This work by two leading environmental scientists and an award-winning journalist picks up where Rachel Carson's Read more

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This book will make you think
This book is an incredible read. I highly recommend it for anyone who is concerned about the environment and their own health. This book contains a lot of research, which contributes to its credibility, however it is far from your typical scientific book. It's a fascinating read for anyone, whether they have a background in biology or environmental science or not. I actually read it as part of an extra credit assignment for one of my college classes. My original intention was to skim the book and write a summary. I became so wrapped up in the book that I literally read it cover to cover - including the forward and the afterward. I later purchased my own copy. This book is both challenging and fascinating. Read it!

eye opening reality
A great, easy to read arguement that we are creating our own demise to profit in the short term. Theo has had a daunting task and put together the pieces of scientific evidence into a timely work of art that questions the side effects of our daily practices.I'd love a sequeal for personal and corporate change that would, of course, only slow the possible outcomes of our daily lives and of thosewonderous creatures which have no choice inhabiting and inheriting the tainted sphere with us.

An alert for us to heed now and to prevent further damage ..
This book is a must read for all who are concerned about improving their own quality of life and that of our future generations, as well as preserving life in every facet.It is our responsibility to pass on thisinformation in whatever capacity we are equipped to do so. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Chemical Pollution    2. Environmental Engineering & Technology    3. Environmental Science    4. Environmental Studies    5. Environmental health    6. Reproduction    7. Reproductive toxicology    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Sterility And Fertility    10. Technology    11. Toxicology   

Subjects:  1. Environmental Conservation & Protection - General    2. Genetics    3. Life Sciences - Biology - General    4. Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics    5. Science    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Cellular biology    8. Conservation of the environment    9. Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection   

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"Canopy Meg" is the Perfect Role Model for All of Us
What a really terrific read!In this book Dr. Lowman has co-authored with her sons, we find a beautiful story of developing a conservation ethic for families. The tone is so positive and inviting, I felt like I was up in the canopy with them.
Notes On Meg's Book
Notes on Margaret Lowman's book, "It's a Jungle Up There---More tales from the Treetops," with Edward and James Burgess.Yale University Press, 2006.
Wonderfully Inspiring for Young and Old Alike
This book is a great read.Written by a mom-scientist and her two sons, it offers a captivating look into some of the most interesting natural environments around the world-all viewed from the treetops.Armchair ecologists, parents, kids, teachers, and tree climbers interested in adventure, science, and/or world travel will thoroughly enjoy this book.It's the perfect follow-up to Life in the Treetops.
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Subjects:  1. Australia    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Ecologists    5. Environmental Conservation & Protection - General    6. Fiction    7. General    8. Personal Memoirs    9. Psychological    10. Rain forest ecology    11. Scientists - General    12. Women ecologists    13. Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology    14. Biography: general    15. Forests, rainforests    16. NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS   

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STREAM MONITORING
This book is invaluable to citizen volunteers who monitor the streams of Virginia.

Freshwater Invertebrates of North America
I purchased this title as a fly fisherman wanting to learn more about entomology.This was a very helpful book written at a high school level which is good for someone wanting to tackle the subject for the first time and to get a good grasp of the vocabulary and science before moving on to more detailed college texts on the subject.
Extremely useful to both amateurs and professionals
This book is an excellent guide to family-level invertebrate identification.It has wonderful pictures and excellent background information on the organisms.
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Subjects:  1. Freshwater animals    2. Freshwater invertebrates    3. Identification    4. Invertebrates    5. Lakes & Ponds    6. Marine Life    7. Nature    8. Nature / Ecology    9. Nature/Ecology    10. North America    11. Rivers    12. Ecology    13. Freshwater life    14. Reference works   

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Beston is without a doubt the best!
I wouldn't dream of heading for the Cape without this book--Henry Beston captures the Cape more beautifully than any other author.THE OUTERMOST HOUSE is one of those enchanting books which improves with each rereading.

Customers interested in this title may also be interested in ...
Since Amazon hasn't provide a link between Outermost House, by Beston, and The Winter Beach, by Charlton Ogburn (ISBN 068809418X), I would like to suggest here that, if you like Outermost House, you will almost certainly enjoy The Winter Beach, as well.From the jacket description: "A naturalist and man of rare wisdom shares with you his journeys along the Atlantic shore."

Bird-watching the Soul
There's an H.G. Wells story (in Bloom's anthology for children) called "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes"; the title character is struck by lightning and undergoes a visual hallucination in which he believes he sees a desolate island, or as he puts it, "Dark sea and sunrise!And yet I'm sitting on a sofa in old Boyce's room!...God help me!"I didn't think much of the story at the time I read it, but now, on reading "The Outermost House," I find it a remarkably excellent and relevant critique of American nature writing.Surrounded by friends and family, Davidson's gaze is turned inward-or rather projected far outward-to a pristine setting that becomes a horror to the reader.
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Subjects:  1. Biography/Autobiography    2. Ecology    3. Essays    4. Essays & Travelogues    5. Natural History    6. Nature    7. Oceans & Seas   

Subjects:  1. Development - Sustainable Development    2. Environmental Conservation & Protection - General    3. Government - General    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: American    7. Petroleum    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Public Policy - Economic Policy    10. United States - 20th Century    11. History / United States / 20th Century    12. Petroleum & oil industries    13. Sustainability    14. Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Chemistry - Industrial & Technical    2. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    3. Environmental Science    4. Industrial Health & Safety    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Industrial chemistry    9. Physical chemistry    10. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical   

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Snowflake
This book has lots of wonderful interesting pictures as well as inspirational quotes. A very tranquil book to look at if you need a little escape from the hectic world.

Great Gift with Beautiful Photography
The size and style of this little book is fantastic--the photos make you love winter! The inspirational quotations are an added bonus along with the details about snowflakes and how to photograph them. I got this for a friend whose wedding had a snowflake theme.It was perfect and provided a great memento of her day! I was not a snowflake lover before I saw this book, but now I am hooked.You can even buy the actual photos of the snowflake from Caltech and next winter they will be featured on US postal stamps.Amazing and beautiful.I am so happy with this purchase!

Great for teachers
I use this book as inspiration for my second grade students when we learn about snow and weather. They love it. Beautiful natural photgraphs. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Americana    2. Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology    3. Nature    4. Physics    5. Pictorial works    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Snow    9. Snowflakes    10. Weather    11. House & Home / General   

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A Good Book!
I first met the book in the uni library. Having been teaching natural resources and environmental economics, I find this intermediate textbook with is useful and worthy of recommendating for those postgraduates whohave strong interests in theoretical exploration. Since almost alltextbooks in the market are elementary and are not suitable for theadvanced readers, this book with new approaches has been increasingly usedin the uni. However, this book does not pay enough attention toenvironmental policy. This should be considered by the authors when thethird edition is composed. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Development - Sustainable Development    4. Economics - General    5. Environmental Conservation & Protection - General    6. Environmental economics    7. Management    8. Natural Resources    9. Nature    10. Sustainable development    11. Business & Economics / Economics / General    12. Macroeconomics   

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More Republican atrocities
As if there were any doubts about the atrocities perpetrated by the Republican government, here's an account of what they're doing to science: to stem cell research, to the environment, to endargened species, to the teaching of evolution, etc., while deriding people who live "in what we call the reality-based community," which consists of those who "believe that solutions emerge from judicious study of discernible reality." (I'm not joking.)Read it and be prepared to take a bath with Clorox and a steel brush when you are done.

Well researched & documented
A very thorough and well-written book.Certainly a must-read for anyone interested in science, public policy, political tactics, current events, or any combination of the above.

Republicans' Orwellian "sound science" no science at all in their upside down world
Chris Mooney's passionate, thoroughly researched book concludes: the Bush administration ignores or denies mainstream research to please its conservative base. Business groups and certain religious lobbies helped while Bush-era treatment of scientists did a 180-degree reversal from that of Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Reagan. The Republican Congress passed laws - endorsed by the Bush White House -- designed to disable clean air and water efforts, and has dismantled safeguards, such as the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, originally intended to give legislators unbiased advice.
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Subjects:  1. Environmental Science    2. Government - U.S. Government    3. Modern - 21st Century    4. Philosophy & Social Aspects    5. Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism    6. Political Process - Political Parties    7. Political Science    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Public Policy - Environmental Policy    11. Central government policies    12. Philosophy of science   

Subjects:  1. Animals    2. Classification    3. Environmental Science    4. Interior Design - General    5. Mammals    6. Sociology    7. Soviet Union    8. Voles   

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Save your money - buy Bergey's manual
The book begins with a decent 6 page chapter on the "Initial Stages to the Identification of a Bacterial Culture," then has a condensed version of Bergey's manual, which theoretically could allow identification to the species level, provided the information is correct and complete.I got this book yesterday, and found an error on the first thing I looked up. (in table 7.1 - Streptomyces does produce aerial hyphae.)Read more

Subjects:  1. Atlases    2. Bacteria    3. Bacteriology    4. Identification    5. Life Sciences - Bacteriology    6. Life Sciences - Biology - General    7. Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology    8. Medical    9. Microbiology    10. Science    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Microbiology (non-medical)    13. Nature / Water Supply   

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Not as good as The Party's Over...
While Heinberg summarizes the lit. on oil depletion and fuel shortages, this book branches into imagined political outcomes--basically, the demise of liberal culture, the individual, and our civilization.(Examples: no oil, little fuel, population decline to 3.8 billion humans, etc.)He offers "rational" alternative end-games and scenarios, but his thinking predicates that human beings and societies are and can be "rational."If you accept that, then, OK, this analysis is for you.
Heinberg Reports, You Decide
Heinberg writes as friend who has the regrettable task of informing us our way of life is over.He gives a concise, readable account of why change is coming.In short, the age of cheap oil is soon to end and viable substitutes (if they are to appear at all) are decades away.We are now at the point, or we will soon be at the point, where supply cannot keep up with demand.Demand is rising (thanks in part to the industrialization of China and India) and supply is at its peak. This new reality will have disastrous consequences for our economic, political and social institutions."It literally changes everything."
Better than the Long Emergency
Very concise review of alternative energy options, and why repair, re-use, maintain will become very important as we learn to live with energy resource limitations.Its not as alarmist as the Long Emergency (James Howard Kunstler), but puts the onus on policy makers to make hard choices now, or be faced with some unwinnable strategies,e.g. "Last One Standing" which appears to be the policy of the Bush administration, perhaps unconsciously.I enjoyed it.Very well written, well researched, and easy to understand. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Environmental Conservation & Protection - General    2. General    3. History    4. History: American    5. Political Process - General    6. Politics / Current Events    7. United States - 20th Century    8. Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology    9. History / United States / 20th Century    10. Management of land & natural resources    11. Sustainability    12. USA   

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Excellent information!An Easy & Fun Read!
Ryan and Durnings book contains excellent information about products we use everyday, and how our choices matter.After reading the first section tracing the history of coffee, I was prompted to go to my health food store and purchase "shade coffee" (organic or cooperatively produced).
Serious but fun read
This is one fun and informative book and one I am buying for young as well as older friends. I sit here typing on a computer keyboard and because of the book I see things I never really stopped to see before.And with this comes questions and answers about how many people and natural resources does it take to make all the elements of this modern marvel. Not just the keyboard, monitor and speakers, but the people behind Amazon.com who are consuming coffee, flushing toilets, using lights and machines to process my order.
Limited as an Environmental Guidebook, but Informative.
In "Stuff", Ryan provides a comprehensive description of the materials and processes used to produce, use, and dispose of a variety of everyday consumer products (automobile, hamburger, coffee, newspaper, etc.).He presents precise statistics on the quantity of raw and recycled materials, energy, and pollution caused by this production and consumption of each product."Stuff" is concise and thoroughly researched.
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Subjects:  1. Anthropology - General    2. Consumer goods    3. Ecological Anthropology    4. Environmental Science    5. Environmental Studies    6. Environmental aspects    7. Green products    8. Natural Resources    9. North America    10. Politics/International Relations    11. Social Science   

Subjects:  1. Atlases    2. Atlases - World    3. General    4. Reference    5. Reference / Atlases   

Subjects:  1. Business/Economics    2. Earth Sciences - Geography    3. Environmental Science    4. Environmental Studies    5. Geographic information systems    6. Management    7. Natural Resources    8. Natural Resources Management    9. Nature    10. Computers / Information Technology    11. Geographical information systems (GIS)    12. Management of land & natural resources