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Technology Transfer for the Ozone Layer
Lessons for Climate Change. Technology transfer, the development of practical applications and commercialization of research, for positive environmental outcomes is the crux of many of the 230 international environmental treaties.
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Advances In Passive Cooling
Buildings, Energy and Solar Technology Series. Provides a comprehensive update on the state-of-the-art of passive cooling technology, authored by a global team of experts.
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Fuel Briquette Press Kit: A Construction Manual
Another great manual from The Legacy Foundation.This manual provides all that is required to make a fuel briquette press kit. Fuel Briquettes can be made from everyday agricultural and commercial residues such as weeds, leaves, sawdust, rice hus
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When Aid is No Help
How projects fail and how they could succeed. This book describes why well- intentioned work fails and suggests ways to change the $50 billion a year aid effort to become more appropriate to the needs of its recipients.
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The Future of Large Dams
Dealing with Social, Environmental, Institutional and Political Costs. The author is the undisputed world leader in this subject. The treatment is authoritative and magisterial" --Robert Goodland
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Building Green in a Black and White World
Building Green in a Black and White World transforms the rising interest in living in green homes into practical ways to satisfy the environmentally conscious homebuyer.
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BuckyWorks
Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today. Bucky decided that reliable information and effcient design could identify and fairly distribute the Earth's resources, bringing a good life to all.
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Running a Biogas Program
How to build a biogas system that will transform animal and crop wastes into a clean, high-grade fuel while producing a great fertilizer. Compares author?s experience in Nepal to systems in India and China. For both domestic and community systems.
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Biogas Systems in India
Potential fuel and fertilizer source assessment. Detailed and thoughtful analysis of resource, economic and social aspects. Includes computer simulation.
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Three Cubic Meter Biogas Plant
Step-by-step instructions for making a low-cost, reliable, and low maintenance continuous feed methane digester. Proven design used in thousands of systems in India.
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Sustainable Consumer Services
Business Solutions for Household Markets. Highlights a booming sector: the supply of sustainable consumer services for household markets (such as delivery of organic food, mobilelaundry services or car pooling)
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Gaviotas
The eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia, known as the llanos, are among the most brutal environments on Earth, an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told.
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Fuel Briquettes: Theory and Applications from Around the World
Another great manual from The Legacy Foundation. This manual provides a detailed technical understanding of bonding theory, raw materials and their availability, burning characteristics, thermal and emissions testing, cooking and more.
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Out of the Labyrinth: Who We Are, How We Go Wrong, and What We Can Do About It
Frankels latest book, Out of the Labyrinth: Who We Are, How We Go Wrong, and What We Can Do About It, raises the literature on sustainability to a new level and is destined to be a classic, according to ecological economist Hazel Henderson.
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The Future Control of Food
An Essential Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security.
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Design for Sustainability
A Sourcebook of Integrated, Eco-logical Solutions. "Design for Sustainability" signals the crucial paradigm shift of the 21st Century: the transition from "environmental management" to "systems design"
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Energy Autonomy
The Economic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable Energy. This is a new book from the internationally renowned author of The Solar Economy and A Solar Manifesto, and named one of Time Magazines "Heroes of the Green Century."
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Synchronizing Science and Technology with Human Behaviour
Believing that technical and social realms are much more connected than most people concerned with sustainability tend to admit, the author has developed an innovative and practical text that encourages people to "co-design" technologies that make socially-desired behaviors more attractive.
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Fuel Briquette Making: A Users' Manual
Another great manual from The Legacy Foundation providing all that is required to make a fule briquette press kit. Fuel Briquettes can be made from everyday agricultural and commercial residues such as weeds, leaves, sawdust, rice husks.
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Energy: Use Less Save More
100 energy saving tips for everything in your home or business.
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Hands On Energy, Recycling and Infrastructure
Appropriate "green" technologies are sometimes regarded as a second-rate solution but the three volumes of "Hands On" challenges this concept by presenting real-life examples of successful viable alternatives to demonstrate appropriate technological stories.
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Fuel Briquettes: A Trainers Manual
Another great manual from The Legacy Foundation. This manual presents essential l information on how to plan organize and manage a briquette production training event by an NGO or development organization.
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How to Build a Non-Electric Multi-Jar Vacuum Sealer
Learn how to vacuum seal any jar without pin hols in the lids! The most economical and effectivemeans to create a long term food storage system for disaster preparedness and self reliance. The pump will also seal 5 gallon buckets, used coffee cans,
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The Hydrogen World View
The Hydrogen World View
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Village Technology Handbook
One of the best resources for development workers and do-it-yourselfers. Written to bridge the technical information gap that keeps the world's villages from learning from each other's experience.
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A Chinese Biogas Manual
China has over seven million biogas pits in operation. They act as a combination waste disposal, recycling center, and fertilizer production while providing a high quality fuel for cooking, lighting, and power.
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How to live without electricity - and like it
Do you want to be prepared in case of a power outage? Do you live somewhere where it's impractical to run powerlines? Do you want to become independent of the utility company and get off the grid?
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Natural Home Heating
The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Options. Natural Home Heating is the first comprehensive guide to heating your home with renewable energy sources.
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Hands On Food, Water and Finance
Appropriate "green" technologies are sometimes regarded as a second-rate solution but the three volumes of "Hands On" challenges this concept by presenting real-life examples of successful viable alternatives to demonstrate appropriate technological stories.
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When Technology Fails
A Manual for Self-Reliance and Planetary Survival. When Technology Fails is the first to offer, under one cover, basic instructions and recommended resources for the wide range of skills and technologies necessary for self-reliant living.
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Biodiversity and the Law
Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Traditional Knowledge. How do we promote global economic development while simultaneously preserving local biological and cultural diversity?
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Advances in Building Energy Research
Volume 1. Presents the recent progress and state-of-the-art in the environmental performance of buildings. Provides a unique forum by bringing together invited contributions from the foremost international experts.
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Voluntary Carbon Markets
An international business guide to carbon markets, what they are and how they work. By the end of 2006 the world carbon market will top $30 billion in transactions and the first carbon billionaire may well have emerged.
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Access to Energy Services for the Rural Poor
Hands-on advice for providing energy to hundreds of millions of rural poor people with key solutions for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
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The Appropriate Technology Library
The Appropriate Technology Library contains 150,000 pages of full text and graphics from 1,050 books covering all areas of village-level and do-it-yourself technology--all on 27 CD-ROM?s or 4 DVDs. The AT Library gives you all the benefits of a compr
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Renewable Energy Policy and Politics
Examines the renewable energy sector and its stakeholders, analyzing the reasons for past failures and the key features of successful policies.
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Renewable Energy
A Global Review of Technologies, Policies and Markets.
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A Handbook on Low-Energy Buildings and District-Energy Systems
Fundamentals, Techniques and Examples. ***Recipient of the 2007 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD from Choice***
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Advances in Solar Energy
An Annual Review of Research and Development in Renewable Energy Technologies Volume 18The Advances in Solar Energy series offers state-of-the-art information on all primary renewable energy technologies, including solar, wind and biomass.
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The Biomass Assessment Handbook
Bioenergy for a Sustainable Environment. Responding to the need for reliable and detailed information on biomass consumption and supply and overcoming the lack of standardized measurement and accounting procedures, this handbook provides the The Biomass Assessment Handbook
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Blue Genes
Sharing and Conserving the World?s Aquatic Biodiversity. The first book to address the ownership, governance, and trade in aquatic biogenetic resources. A must-have book for policymakers, academics, and practitioners dealing with genetic resources.
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The Business Guide to Sustainability
Practical Strategies and Tools for Organizations. A no-nonsense guide on how to "green" your office or business. ***Recipient of the 2007 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD from Choice***
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Island Technology
The contributors' analyses and observations span a range of key issues: agriculture and forestry, aid and technology, aviation and shipping, banking, communications, development policy and planning, education and training, energy, the environment, fisheries and marine resources, food processing, gender issues, health, housing, industry, mining, project management, technology choice and transfer and sanitation and water supply.
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Porta Press Manuals - How to Build and Operate
Another great manual from The Legacy Foundation. This manual along with its companion, Porta Press Construction Manual provides all that is required to make and operate a Porta Press for small scale fuel briquette production.
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Thrasher Masher Chopper Machine - How to Build and Operate
Another great manual from the Legacy Foundation.This manual along with its companion, Thrasher Masher Chopper Machine - How to Operate contains all you need to know to build an operate a TMC-1 machine.
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Making Better Concrete
Why a book about concrete? Because we use so much of it, far more than any other building material. It seems only sensible to inquire as to how we can use this ubiquitous building material without undue damage to the life and landscapes that surround us.
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