epub |eng | 2014-01-17 | Author:David Bollier [Bollier, David]

The Inalienable Rights of Commoners Property rights do not arise naturally, as the great Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley noted in 1659. They are the result of conquest: “For the power ...

azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Boxwell, Michael [Boxwell, Michael]

Maximum power point tracking More expensive solar controllers incorporate a technology called maximum power point tracking (MPPT). An MPPT controller adjusts the voltage being received from the solar array to ...

azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:Paul Gilding

Let no waste go to waste Ensure that all used materials are recycled and reused, at the very least to recover the embedded energy. To force this, limit production of ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:J. William Thompson & Kim Sorvig [Sorvig, Kim]

Test Modern Hardware for Cleaner Piped Stormwater Pave-and-pipe stormwater “control” contributes to pollution and is not a recommended practice. Piped systems, however, remain an article of faith among engineers, and ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Sen, Amartya [Sen, Amartya]

CHAPTER 8 WOMEN’S AGENCY AND SOCIAL CHANGE Mary Wollstonecraft’s classic book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792, had various distinct claims within the general program of ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Mark Diesendorf

Breaking down car culture The traditional approach to transport planning – building or widening major roads and providing large numbers of parking spaces in urban centres and subcentres – was ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:Speth, James Gustave [Speth, James Gustave]

Transforming Communities It has been said that the nation-state is too big for the little things and too little for the big things. That is true if we think of ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-07-14 | Author:Ozzie Zehner

11. Improving Consumption And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! “Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:The Worldwatch Institute [The Worldwatch Institute]

When delegates to the UN climate conference in Indonesia in 2007 agreed to the so-called Bali Roadmap, ICLEI gathered local government organizations to form the Local Government Climate Roadmap 2007–2009—the ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Martenson, Chris [Martenson, Chris]

Figure 16.8 indicates that even a historically modest 4 percent rate of global growth would require an advance from the 84.4 mbd (million barrels per day) in 2009 to 89.1 ...