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The eco hero handbook : simple solutions to tackle eco-anxiety
\"Looking behind the slogans and exploring the myths, The Eco Hero Handbook is a clear and balanced exploration in to the major eco-debates, enabling you to make decisions based on facts. As we face a global environmental crisis, The Eco Hero Handbook addresses all your eco-anxieties and dilemmas to empower you to become part of the solution. Looking behind the slogans and exploring the myths, this handy guide offers a clear and balanced exploration of the major eco-debates, enabling you to make decisions based on facts. Featuring practical steps for positive action in all areas of your life, find solutions to all your environment-related challenges, including: How can I keep my house clean but low impact? How can I reduce my overall energy use in the home? How can I protect my plants without using chemicals? Which transport choices will help cut carbon emissions? Is it okay to eat any meat? Organised by area of life (home, out and about, work, food and activism), each issue is paired with a practical solution and the evidence to back it up. From recycling to eating sustainably, ethical fashion to being an eco-conscious tourist, this book is the essential guide to the little changes that will make a big difference\"--Publisher's description.
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Street smart sustainability : the entrepreneur's guide to profitably greening your organization's DNA
Go Green While Making GreenYou already know why your company should go green. This comprehensive guide tells you how to do it profitably. It details every step of the process--from getting employee buy-in and conducting a current sustainability audit to developing a plan of action and measuring progress. Nuts-and-bolts guidance helps you make continuous, cost-effective improvements and shift the prevailing business culture by infusing green practices into your organization's very DNA. Through illustrative examples from a wide variety of industries, this book shows how to:* Design sustainable products * Green your facilities * Find green vendors * Use renewable energy * Reduce harmful emissions * Recycle waste products, and more The emphasis is on practicality--stand-alone chapters you can read when you need them and tools you can use to implement change in any area of your organization.enough.
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Not the end of the world : how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet
In this bold, radically hopeful book, a data scientist, drawing on the latest research, practical guidance and eye-opening graphics, gives us the tools for understanding our current environmental crisis and making lifestyle changes that actually have an impact.
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Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems
This handbook includes contributions from established and emerging scholars from around the world and draws on multiple approaches and subjects to explore the socio-economic, cultural, ecological, institutional, legal, and policy aspects of regenerative food practices.
The future of food is uncertain. We are facing an overwhelming number of interconnected and complex challenges related to the ways we grow, distribute, access, eat, and dispose of food. Yet, there are stories of hope and opportunities for radical change towards food systems that enhance the ability of living things to co-evolve. Given this, activities and imaginaries looking to improve, rather than just sustain, communities and ecosystems are needed, as are fresh perspectives and new terminology. The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems addresses this need. The chapters cover diverse practices, geographies, scales, and entry-points. They focus not only on the core requirements to deliver sustainable agriculture and food supply, but go beyond this to think about how these can also actively participate with social-ecological systems. The book is presented in an accessible way, with reflection questions meant to spark discussion and debate on how to transition to safe, just, and healthy food systems. Taken together, the chapters in this handbook highlight the consequences of current food practices and showcase the multiple ways that people are doing food differently.
The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems is essential reading for students and scholars interested in food systems, governance and practices, agroecology, rural sociology, and socio-environmental studies.
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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production provides authoraitative reviews on measure GHG emissions from livestock as well as the range of methods that can be applied to reduce emissions, ranging from breeding to animal health and manure management. The collection also reviews nutritional approaches such as improving forage quality and the use of plant bioactive compounds and other feed supplements to limit emissions by modifying the rumen environment.
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Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science
In many academic fields, the number of papers published each year has increased significantly over time. Policy measures aim to increase the quantity of scientists, research funding, and scientific output, which is measured by the number of papers produced. These quantitative metrics determine the career trajectories of scholars and evaluations of academic departments, institutions, and nations. Whether and how these increases in the numbers of scientists and papers translate into advances in knowledge is unclear, however. Here, we first lay out a theoretical argument for why too many papers published each year in a field can lead to stagnation rather than advance. The deluge of new papers may deprive reviewers and readers the cognitive slack required to fully recognize and understand novel ideas. Competition among many new ideas may prevent the gradual accumulation of focused attention on a promising new idea. Then, we show data supporting the predictions of this theory. When the number of papers published per year in a scientific field grows large, citations flow disproportionately to already well-cited papers; the list of most-cited papers ossifies; new papers are unlikely to ever become highly cited, and when they do, it is not through a gradual, cumulative process of attention gathering; and newly published papers become unlikely to disrupt existing work. These findings suggest that the progress of large scientific fields may be slowed, trapped in existing canon. Policy measures shifting how scientific work is produced, disseminated, consumed, and rewarded may be called for to push fields into new, more fertile areas of study.
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Sustainable architecture
Reveals the different connections between the planning and construction phases of a project, which reflect the joint efforts of architects, designers and builders to transform an industry that plays a key role in environmental conservation processes.
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From Rheology to Mechanical Strength: Methodological and Experimental Investigation of the Fine Fraction (<400 µm) of Soils for Low-Carbon Earthen Construction
Earth-based materials are increasingly considered as low-carbon alternatives for sustainable building construction. However, the high variability of natural soils and the complex behaviour of their clay fraction remain major barriers to the standardisation of characterisation and formulation methods. This study proposes a methodological and experimental framework based on the fine fraction (<400 µm) of soils to predict the fresh-state and hardened-state performance of earthen construction materials. Two natural soils from southwestern France with contrasted mineralogical compositions were investigated using rheological studies, compaction, linear shrinkage, and unconfined compressive strength (UCS) tests. The results show that the fine fraction plays a dominant role in governing material behaviour: smectite-rich soils reach higher dry densities (up to ≈2.10 g•cm -3 ) and compressive strengths (up to ≈6 MPa) but exhibit greater shrinkage sensitivity, whereas kaolinite-illite-rich soils display reduced shrinkage and improved dimensional stability. By demonstrating the predictive capacity of fine-fraction-based indicators for mechanical performance and dimensional stability, this work contributes to the development of simplified, reproducible, and environmentally relevant methodologies for the design of low-carbon earthen building materials using locally sourced soils.
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