Download or read book Energy and Civilization written by Vaclav Smil and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. —Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity—for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.

Download or read book Finding The Balance written by Robert Ziefel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return once again to Demongate High, the only supernatural high school on Earth. If you went there for three years, then were forced to attend a regular high school, where no one had powers, you would be depressed too. Dean certainly is. He's the ""new kid"" in his senior year, and all his friends are elsewhere in the world because they can't go to school on the island anymore. But the supernatural world is everywhere, and as chaos grows, more and more improbable things start happening. Join Dean and his friends as they discover that source of chaos and try to restore balance before it's too late. If the guy who runs the Foundation will let him, that is. Martin DeVille is none to pleased with Dean, who keeps making talismans for his friends. After all, he is the greatest talisman maker on Earth, and he's still just a kid. His creations are much more powerful then they have a right to be, and that makes the Foundation just a little bit nervous. After all, what if he decides to take over?

Download or read book Finding Home written by Emilia Keller and published by Word Alive Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arly Graber didn't run away from home. Home ran away from her. Fifteen-year-old Arly is accustomed to her mother's occasional absences, brought about by her addictive lifestyle. This time, however, her mother doesn't return, leaving Arly without a permanent home. Arly is conflicted between loyalty to her mother and anger for being pressed into a life of deceit in order to survive. She finds occasional reprieve in the care of her next door neighbor Cheryl, but the relief is temporary since Cheryl has her own personal struggles to deal with. Ultimately Arly discovers that home is more than a place... and that we are never really alone.

Download or read book The Energy Book written by Kalisa Augustine and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are your own healer. Discover how with this book. We are in 'The Age of Energy' Gwyneth Paltrow 'A must read for all healers and those seeking healing.' David Grand, PhD (Developer of Brainspotting) Your energy is your essence. It's your personal power source. It influences the life choices you make. If your energy is blocked, you can feel unwell and you can get stuck in negative routines. This down-to-earth, comprehensive guide to the ancient and modern traditions of energy healing will enable you to tune in to your energy and awaken your power. Explore ancient and modern healing techniques - from reiki to sound healing, crystal healing to shamanic healing, meditation to breathwork. Use your energy to live more positively, to manifest your goals, to stay grounded, and to find greater calm and happiness.

Download or read book Prefabulous Almost Off the Grid written by Sheri Koones and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 1183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful, user-friendly overview to building more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly homes using prefabrication. Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid explores the many ways of using prefabrication to build beautiful homes that are not only environmentally friendly, but also incredibly energy efficient. Profiling more than thirty of the most energy-efficient homes in the United States, this user-friendly guide reveals how homebuilders can achieve similar results—whether they want to earn an advanced green certification or just incorporate a few energy-saving measures—with the help of floor plans, detailed resource lists, explanations of the latest technologies, and brilliant photographs. Author Sheri Koones shows that building green doesn’t have to be more expensive, and in fact, can lead to dramatic savings. Koones’s almost-off-the-grid homes, which take energy from the grid when necessary and return any excess energy produced, are healthier, quieter inside, and far cheaper to operate. As energy costs continue to rise, energy independence is becoming increasingly essential, and as this guide shows, the almost-off-the-grid home is a solution that is achievable for everyone. Recipient of the 2013 Robert Bruss Gold Book Award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) Praise for Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid “The time has come to throw out the old stereotypes and to embrace prefab building techniques as the way of the future?and the best approach for today. For anyone wanting to create a house that’s sustainable in every sense of the word, this book is an excellent place to start.” —Sarah Susanka, architect and author of The Not So Big House series “You can build a high quality, environmentally friendly and efficient home at a reasonable price with a look and feel of a traditional home. Advancements like those used in our house and the other houses in this book will transform the homebuilding industry.” —Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency “This is an easy-on-the-eyes guide that includes floor plans and multiple images of the exterior and interior of each home. It is not a manual for green construction, but a general overview of aspects of prefab and green construction. And it does that well.” —Natural Life magazine

Download or read book Energy Sprawl Solutions written by Joseph M. Kiesecker and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the next several decades, as human populations grow, the demand for energy will soar. But renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl--the amount of land needed to produce energy--which can threaten biodiversity. In Energy Sprawl Solutions, scientists Joseph M. Kiesecker and David Naugle provide a roadmap for preserving biodiversity despite the threats of energy sprawl. Their strategy--development by design--identifies and sets aside land where biodiversity can thrive while consolidating development in areas with lower biodiversity value. This contributed volume features case studies from countries around the world, each describing a different energy sector and the way they have successfully maximized biodiversity protection. This book provides a needed guide for elected officials, industry representatives, NGOs and community groups who have a stake in sustainable energy-development planning.

Download or read book Toward a Sustainable Energy Future written by International Energy Agency and published by OECD. This book was released on 2001 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manner in which we produce & consume energy is of crucial importance to sustainable development, as energy has deep relationships with each of its three dimensions -- the economy, the environment & social welfare. These relationships develop in a fast-moving & complex situation characterized by increasing globalisation, growing market liberalisation & new technologies, as well as by growing concerns about climate change & energy-supply security. In order to make energy an integral part of sustainable development, new policies need to be developed. Such policies must strike a balance among the three dimensions of sustainable development. They must reduce our exposure to large-scale risk. The IEA has synthesized a number of experiences with policies aimed to promote sustainable development. These experiences are reported in seven subject chapters on energy supply security, market reform, improving energy efficiency, renewable energies, sustainable transport, flexibility mechanisms for greenhouse gas reductions & on non-Member countries.

Download or read book Sempre Finding Home written by Raymond Silverthorne and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an old man dies in a London park, a family heirloom slips from his finger, and is found by a young woman who is instrumental in reuniting the past with the present as old and new love stories are told. Through these interweaving stories we witness destiny’s hand in both historic and contemporary Portugal and Britain, and the drama comes not from villains in black cloaks, but from situations which are out of the characters’ control. It is due to the trials of these ordinary people, and a happy ending that ties in so many of the plot’s strings, that this is one of those stories you will want to read a second time in order to fully appreciate how the characters’ lives overlap, and the hand fate plays. This story owes a great amount to four songs: ‘Ordinary Girl’ by Alison Moyet; the author wanted to know why the protagonist of the ‘story’ thought she had to leave the way she did. ‘Take a Drunk Girl Home’; a country song about a man who takes a drunk girl home and doesn’t take advantage of the situation. ‘Symphony’ by Sarah Brightman; about the end of a love affair that leaves one half of the couple uncertain of what went wrong. The fourth song is, ‘If You Could Read My Mind’ by Gordon Lightfoot; it mentions ‘a ghost in a wishing-well’ and was a spur for writing about the mystery which the author feels has a place in all our lives...

Download or read book Green Home Computing For Dummies written by Woody Leonhard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make your computer a green machine and live greener at home and at work Get on board the green machine! Green home computing means making the right technology choice for the environment, whether it be a Windows-based or Mac-based computer and all the peripherals. In addition, it means learning how to properly and safely dispose of those items and how to use your computer to create a greener life at home and at work. Computer expert Woody Leonhard and green living guru Katherine Murray introduce you to the many green products that exist in the world of technology, including eco-friendly desktops, laptops, and servers; energy-efficient peripherals; and the numerous Web sites that offer advice on how to go green in nearly every aspect of your life. Bestselling author Woody Leonhard and green living guru Katherine Murray show you how to make your computer more eco-friendly Discusses buying a green computer and choosing eco-friendly peripherals Discover ways to manage your power with software and servers Provides helpful explanations that decipher how to understand your computer's power consumption With this invaluable insight, you'll discover that it actually is easy being green!

Download or read book Finding Home written by Julie K. Aageson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all who know the security of home—in all its iterations—and for those who don’t, finding home is complicated. Home always is characterized by joy and sorrow, grief and gladness, the realities of complicated lives. What is it like to flee the horrors of war as a refugee in search of home? When daily life is unbearable, what exactly does home mean? How do we learn to be at home in our bodies, at home with ourselves? What does it mean to be made in the likeness of the Holy One? Can we find home in the company of strangers and how do we reclaim our earth home? So many images swim just below the surface of my memory, all the houses where I came to know home. It takes little to retrieve them—a shared story, the pungent smell of tide flats, the sound of rain on a tin roof. But home, of course, is much more than houses. These reflections invite readers to explore identity, the importance of rootedness, discovering home away from home, what it means to be home for one another. Finding home—literally and metaphorically—is challenging.

Download or read book Energy Makes Things Happen written by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-12-24 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that energy comes from the food you eat? From the sun and wind? From fuel and heat? You get energy every time you eat. You transfer energy to other things every time you play baseball. In this book, you can find out all the ways you and everyone on earth need energy to make things happen.

Download or read book Seven Stages of Authenticity written by Neil Crofts and published by Seven Stages of Authenticity. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven Stages of Authenticity is a clear and detailed map that will help you find everything you need for health, success and happiness. Seven Stages of Authenticity guides you, stage by stage, on a deep personal journey using easy to understand language, exercises and recommendations of movies, books and music to inspire you on your way.

Download or read book Finding Home written by Colleen Johnson and published by Amazon Pro Hub. This book was released on 2023-01-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a unique approach to the idea of soul care by comparing it to the concept of home. When we allow Jesus to do a transformational work in our souls to give us the feeling of home; loved, secure, nourished, accepted and healing every day. When we make it a practice to cultivate Jesus’ presence within us, we will feel at home in our inner being instead of being spiritually and emotionally “homeless”. When we cultivate the presence of Jesus and work through key soul care principles and develop a rhythm of a practices that incorporate the spiritual disciplines of feeding on God’s Word, worship and thanksgiving, listening prayer, praying scripture, and times of fasting and solitude it leads our soul home. These practices create an atmosphere that God uses to fill us with more of Himself and His ways. The more of God we have, the more He guides us to tear down walls of self-protection, find the truth of who we are in Christ, and defeat the attacks of our enemy, Satan, so that we start walking more as Jesus walked. This process brings our soul to the home where it belongs.

Download or read book 100 Clean Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything written by Mark Z. Jacobson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook on the science and methods behind a global transition to 100% clean, renewable energy for science, engineering, and social science students.

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Download or read book Places Rated Almanac written by David Savageau and published by Places Rated Books LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique reference, every one of America’s 379 metropolitan areas is rated by factors that are important to anyone considering a move. Divided into nine thoroughly researched main topics, this guide derives its information as much from private sources as government sources, providing a well-rounded description of all that each metro area has to offer: ambience, housing, jobs, crime, transportation, education, health care, recreation, and climate. With a personalized quiz to help determine the most important factors of an area, this ratings sourcebook provides a wealth of information for those looking to move and the armchair traveler alike.

Download or read book Finding Home written by Kristen Casey and published by Gallant Fox Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting Away Was Supposed to Fix Everything. Divorce might have thrown Morgan’s life into a tailspin, but at least she had a plan for recovery. Going on a girls’ trip—as far away as possible—was supposed to be just the thing to pull her out of her funk and get things back on track. But when tragedy strikes before she even makes it home from the safari, Morgan finds herself unable to return to the broken life she knew before. Instead, she stays put and takes a safe, unassuming job as one man’s housekeeper—Owen, an intriguing game warden with a sticky problem of his own. Caught up in dangerous forces they don’t understand, Morgan and Owen work together to unravel what—or who—is killing a rare animal in Owen’s nature preserve. They can’t deny the growing attraction between them, but when foes look like friends, the couple is pushed to the brink—and threatened with consequences worse than either is willing to contemplate. Will they learn the truth in time to save the last of the herd, and themselves? Or will they fall victim to the treachery surrounding them, and lose their hopes for a new life together? Only time will tell. Finding Home is book one in the Lost and Found series. With a dash of suspense, an exotic setting, and slow-burn chemistry, this steamy travel romance will have you turning the pages and longing for more. A previous version of this novel was published as book one in the Second Chances series. This edition has been extensively re-edited and updated. About the Series: What once was lost, can now be found. Meet the Flynn and O’Connell sisters: four women who just need one more chance to get things right…and fall in love with the four heroes who are only too happy to hand it to them. Interconnected standalones filled with emotion and heat, this series is packed with real, relatable romance and plenty of sparkling dialogue.