The Causes of Climate Change
Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the human expansion of the “greenhouse effect”1 — […]
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THE BLOOMBERG CARBON CLOCK
Carbon dioxide pollution is the primary reason the Earth is warming. The number you will see is the estimates the
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“The Great Lakes Water Wars” by Peter Annin
FROM AMAZON…The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans
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New Investments in Blighted Commercial Strips.
Turning Abandoned and Marginally Used Buildings into Successful Business Locations. Blighted Commercial Strips. The proverbial “federal” highway that leads into
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“The Upcycle” A Presentation and Signing with William McDonough.
CharacterTowns.org regards William McDonough as one of the great thinkers of our time. His work on the built environment sets
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Bleak views of melting Antarctic ice, from above and below
From Yale Climate Connections Images from satellites high above the Earth have helped a research team put together a stark
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
FROM AMAZON…“It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of
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Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich
From Amazon: By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change―including how to stop it. Over the
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The Powers of Ten
Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this
The Resilient City. How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster by Vale, Lawrence J. and Thomas J. Campanella
The Resilient City was published over ten years ago. It established a term, coined a phrase and set many cities into