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Fedlapjai kissé kopottasak, halványan karcosak. How can you make a real difference in the world and make a good living at the same time? The ECO Guide to Careers That Make a Difference: Environmental Work for a Sustainable World provides the answer. Developed by The Environmental Careers...

Preface The U.S. Citizens Network on the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) grew out of a meeting of some 200 representatives of U.S. non-governmental organizations (NGOs) held in Washington, D.C., in October 1990. With less than two years left before the U.N....

PREFACE Fossil fuel burning, deforestation, and the release of industrial chemicals are rapidly heating the earth to temperatures not experienced in human memory. Limiting global heating and climatic change is the central environmental challenge of our time. This book summarizes the scientific...

Foreword We are confronted with indisputable evidence that the struggle to keep our planet habitable for the human race is at a critical juncture. As Sir Shridath Ramphal, the former secretary-general of the Commonwealth and foreign minister of Guyana, documents in this authoritative study, the...

Introduction LIKE MANY AMERICANS who at one time or another have experienced the immensity and wonder of nature, I did not have to discover the environmental crisis or be persuaded that it was real. It became self-evident, as the places of my boyhood were transformed into something less...

FOREWORDWith little warning, managing our garbage has become a problem of immense proportions. This has traditionally been a task that few of us thought twice about, content to leave it to our municipal public works or sanitation managers to choose how and where to haul it away. Events in just the...