A Roadmap for PIER Research on Avian Collisions with Wind Turbines in California
Author : Dave Sterner
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Birds
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Author : Dave Sterner
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Birds
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Author : Kevin Hunting
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Birds
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Author : Kevin Hunting
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Birds
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Author : Joseph Toomey
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 148080892X
It is difficult to find an area of public policy more plagued by misunderstanding than energy policy. Even worse, every time the subject is raised, we are obligated to get mired in pointless arguments about the weather. This book helps set the record straight. Not convinced? Consider some of these inconvenient truths: The cost of green energy climate remediation is anywhere from 10-to-1,000 times greater than the damage from the climate change it attempts to alleviate. Germany, the worlds leader in solar energy, will spend more than $280 billion by 2030 on solar subsidies. But all of that investment will only forestall 22nd century global warming by 37 hours. Obamas carbon tax would cost Americans $1.2 trillion over just ten years. But it would only reduce the midrange 3 degree modeled 22nd century global temperature increase by 0.038 degrees Celsius. At their current emissions growth rate, it will take China nine months to replace the entire U.S. emissions cut that Obama wants to achieve over seven years, at a staggering cost in American jobs and lost economic growth. The U.S. biofuel program imposes a cost on consumers 9,862 times greater than any climate benefit they or their distant progeny will ever derive. This is not another skeptical global warming polemic but an economic evaluation of how and why green energy will fail. The world has too many pressing needs. For the money Obama squandered on just a single bankrupt crony solar company, the U.S. could have prevented 300,000 childhood malaria deaths in poor countries. A thoroughly researched, heavily documented book by an expert in his field, it will demonstrate in meticulous detail how wasteful and economically inefficient Obamas green energy dead end future will be compared to other worthy alternatives. Its time to end the hysterical climate cynicism and get on humanitys side.
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Bats
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 2005
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2007-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309108349
The generation of electricity by wind energy has the potential to reduce environmental impacts caused by the use of fossil fuels. Although the use of wind energy to generate electricity is increasing rapidly in the United States, government guidance to help communities and developers evaluate and plan proposed wind-energy projects is lacking. Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects offers an analysis of the environmental benefits and drawbacks of wind energy, along with an evaluation guide to aid decision-making about projects. It includes a case study of the mid-Atlantic highlands, a mountainous area that spans parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. This book will inform policy makers at the federal, state, and local levels.
Author : Melinda Dorin
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Birds
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Author : California State Library
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Page : 384 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2003
Category : California
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Author : Cameron La Follette
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1351652052
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in the United States and internationally in the fields of environmental law and environmental sustainability. This shift advocates building a relationship of integrity and reciprocity with the planet by placing Nature in the forefront of our rights-based legal systems. The authors discuss means of achieving this by laying out Nature’s Laws of Reciprocity and providing a roadmap of the strategies and directions needed to create a Rights of Nature-oriented legal system that will shape and maintain human activities in an environmentally sustainable manner. This work is enriched with an array of unique and relevant points of reference such as the feudal notions of obligation, principles of traditional indigenous cultivation, the Pope Francis Encyclical on the environment, and the new Rights of Nature-based legal systems of Ecuador and Bolivia that can serve as prototypes for the United States and other countries around the world to help ensure a future of environmental sustainability for all living systems.