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Neurobiologist Mancuso reveals the ability of plants to innovate, to remember, and to learn. Plants perceive their surroundings with a greater sensitivity than animals. They efficiently explore and react promptly to potentially damaging external events and can remember prior catastrophic events and actively adapt to new ones.
Based on the six-part BBC program by writer and filmmaker David Attenborough, this book delivers an intimate view of the plant world where multitudes of miniature dramas unfold.
Journalist Adam Minter travels into a vast multibillion-dollar industry that is transforming our economy and environment. Minter traces the export of America's recyclables and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. Junkyard Planet reveals how "going green" usually means making money, and why that's often the most sustainable choice.
This tenth volume in the SAGE Series on Green Society explores the essential role of technology and its most recent developments toward a sustainable environment. With a primary focus on waste management, the volume presents over 150 articles in A-to-Z format.
Nuclear physicist Goldemberg takes readers through the basics of the world energy system, its problems, and the technical as well as non-technical solutions to the most pressing energy problems.
Teaches students how to analyze and solve green and sustainable chemistry problems that occur in an environmental context, and encourages creativity in developing solutions to situations based on actual events. The final chapter contains proposed solutions and provides commentaries and references to relevant literature.
Highlights key principles in ecology from species extinction to the sun's role in powering ecosystems. Each chapter introduces a question and links it to pressing ecological issues in which humans play a central role, such as the spread of invasive species, climate change, overfishing, and biodiversity conservation.
This encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide to trees of the world organized as an A-Z directory. Information for each tree includes a concise taxonomic description with detailed captions describing the dimensions and characteristics of each tree.
Color photographs and illustrations depict each tree family in summer and fall, with descriptions of trunk structure, bark texture, root systems, leaf shapes and functions, flowers, fruit, seeds and nuts.
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