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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear

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What keeps us going when times get tough? How do we act to create a more humane world, no matter how hard it seems? How do we offer models of involvement for our students when many feel their actions cannot matter? The Impossible Will Take a Little While gathers stories and essays of engagement that range across nations, eras, and political movements. These visionary and eloquent voices include Diane Ackerman, Sherman Alexie, Maya Angelou, Mary Catherine Bateson, A… More >>

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Land Use and the Causes of Global Warming

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Global watming through the enhanced greehouse effect is one of the major and most uncertain forces of global environmental change presently facing the earth. This book is a guide to the scientific and policy debate concerning the roles of agriculture, forestry and other activities leading to global warming. The influence of land use on the greehouse effect is important, not only in terms of net emissions of greenhouse gases, but also in the potential to reduce emiss… More >>

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Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: Greenhouse Gas, Effects of Global Warming, Parts-per Notation, Dennis Tirpak, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and … to Global Warming, Abrupt Climate Change.

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Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: A Scientific Symposium on Stabilisation of Greenhouse Gases was a 2005 international conference that examined the link between atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration, and the 2 °C (3.6 °F) ceiling on global warming thought necessary to avoid the most serious effects of global warming. Previously this had generally been accepted as being 550 ppm. The conference took place under the United Kingdom’s presidency of the G8, with the… More >>

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