A preview of the unpublished book A CIVILIZATION WITHOUT A VISION WILL PERISH: AN INDEPENDENT SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH by David Willis. CHAPTER 1: INDIFFERENCE TO POVERTY (Part 43). This blog is a continuation of the review of The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Life Time, by Jeffrey Sachs, …
DEVELOPING A PLAN FOR THE PLANET A BUSINESS PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING IAN CHAMBERS & JOHN HUMBLE GOWER 2011 The Green Economics and Sustainable Growth Series PART 6 Chapter 3: Executive Brief No. 2: Climate Change Summary The issue of Climate Change has moved quickly over the last five years from ‘is it real?,’ to …
Book Review Introduction In Part 1 of A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, Clive Ponting tells us that since the fall of the Soviet Union “billions of tons of carbon dioxide have been put into the atmosphere and the threat of global warming is even more …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY CYRILL AYDON CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART I Introduction This is the story of how human beings spread around the world from their original home in Africa, and of the adventures and misadventures that the human race has experienced since then. It …
OUTGROWING THE EARTH THE FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE IN AN AGE OF FALLING WATER TABLES AND RISING TEMPERATURES LESTER BROWN EARTHSCAN 2005 PART IX Chapter 7: Stabilizing Climate In July of 2004, the US National Academy of Sciences released a research report by a team of nine scientists from China, India, the Philippines, and the United …
OUTGROWING THE EARTH THE FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE IN AN AGE OF FALLING WATER TABLES AND RISING TEMPERATURES LESTER BROWN EARTHSCAN 2005 PART VIII Chapter 6: Stabilizing Water Tables Although public attention has recently focused on the depletion of oil resources, the depletion of underground water resources poses a far greater threat to our future. …
OUTGROWING THE EARTH THE FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE IN AN AGE OF FALLING WATER TABLES AND RISING TEMPERATURES LESTER BROWN EARTHSCAN 2005 PART VI Chapter 4: Raising the earth’s Productivity During the last half of the 20th century the world’s farmers more than doubled the productivity of their land, raising grain yield per hectare from 1.1 …
OUTGROWING THE EARTH THE FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE IN AN AGE OF FALLING WATER TABLES AND RISING TEMPERATURES LESTER BROWN EARTHSCAN 2005 PART II Growth: The environmental fallout The world economy, as now structured, is making excessive demands on the earth. Evidence of this can be seen in collapsing fisheries, shrinking forests, expanding deserts, rising CO2 …
OUTGROWING THE EARTH THE FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE IN AN AGE OF FALLING WATER TABLES AND RISING TEMPERATURES LESTER BROWN EARTHSCAN 2005 PART I About the author Lester R. Brown is President of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit, interdisciplinary research organization based in Washington, D.C., which he founded in May 2001. The purpose of the …
THE ETHICS OF MANAGEMENT Fifth Edition LARUE TONE HOSMER Professor Emeritus of Corporate Strategy and Managerial Ethics School of Business Administration University of Michigan McGraw-Hill 2006 PART II Chapter 1: Moral Problems in Business Management Chapter 2: Moral Analysis and Economic Outcomes Chapter 3: Moral Analysis and Legal Requirements Chapter 4: Moral Analysis and …
