LIBRARY
PHI 346: Environmental Ethics: Environment
e-Books
- Hope's horizon: three visions for healing the American land byPublication Date: Island Press, 2004Restoration ecology
"[T]he health of the world is ultimately our own."
Ward, Chip (Author). Hope's Horizon : Three Visions for Healing the American Land.
Covelo, CA, USA: Island Press, (date). p 132.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/slu/Doc?id=10064661&ppg=132
Green Electricity : 25 Green Technologies That Will Electrify Your Future by ISBN: 1598845799Publication Date: ABC-CLIO. 2011"...environmental damages ... ecofriendly contenders to modernize and replace our current grid..."- Teaching for EcoJustice: Sustainability, Democracy, and Diversity byPublication Date: 2011
- Powering the Green Economy : The Feed-in Tariff Handbook byISBN: 1844078582Publication Date: Earthscan, 2009"... the fastest, most cost-effective and inclusive deployment..."
- America's Environmental Report Card : Are We Making the Grade? byPublication Date: MIT Press 2011
Environmental News
- NASA to Spend $96 Million at Kennedy Space Center Cleaning Up the Toxic Fumes It Left Behind"There are roughly 2 square miles of chemically contaminated soil and groundwater around Kennedy Space Center... "
- Oceans Spawn BacteriaProject CLAMER (Climate Change & European Marine Ecosystem Research) "The warming of the world's oceans can cause serious illness and may cost millions of dollars in health care."
- Shell Oil: Can Shell become a biodiversity-positive company?serious challenges of biodiversity degradation and human depravation in the region
- United Nation News Centre : Severe Oil Pollution in NigeriaCleaning up Nigerian oil pollution could take 30 years, cost billions. ...the “disastrous” impact on mangrove vegetation, contamination of wells
- World's Worst Environmental DisastersGulf Oil Spill; Niger Delta; Bhopal (India); Three Mile Island (Penna.); Exxon Valdez (Alaska); Love Canal (NY State); Lago Agrio (Ecuador); Minamata Bay (Japan); Sandoz Labs toxic spill (Rhine River, Germany)
Costs of Renewable Energy
- Beyond biofuelsAssessing global land use for domestic consumption of biomass...
While energy sources like sunlight and wind are free and naturally replenished, converting them into large quantities of electricity requires vast amounts of natural resources — most notably, land... [Gas Is Greener, by Robert Bryce, NY Times, Jun 7, 2011]
- Desertec Foundation"Within 6 hours deserts receive more energy from the sun than humankind consumes wihtin a year."
- Environmental Considerations for Offshore Energy Transmission:Technology White Paper on Generation of Hydrogen and Transportation and Transmission of Energy Generated on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf to Onshore.
- Methane Leaks Foil Plans for Green FutureThe New Scientist. v211, Issue 2820, 9 Jul 2011, pp 8-9
- Sierra ClubConservation Policies: BioMass Guidance
- Disadvantages to Hydroelectric PowerPower plants may use coal, oil, and gas fuel; environmental impacts; etc.
Making Water from the Air
- Turning Seawater into Jet BiofuelScientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are developing a process to extract carbon dioxide (CO2) and produce hydrogen gas (H2) from seawater, subsequently catalytically converting the CO2 and H2 into jet fuel by a gas-to-liquids process.
Print books
Running out of water: the looming crisis and solutions to conserve our most precious resource by Call Number: TD388 .R64 2010ISBN: 0230615643- Sustainability: a biological perspective byCall Number: HC79.E5 M669 2010ISBN: 052183533XPublication Date: Cambridge Univ Press, 2010
eResources
- Environmental justice: a reference handbook. 2nd ed. byPublication Date: ABC-CLIO 2009Offers a current overview of the environmental inequities faced by poor and minority communities and the development of the grassroots movement working to address them.
- Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy byPublication Date: Macmillan, 2009Covers concepts, institutions, topics, events and people...
- CQ Global ResearcherPlastic Pollution: Can the world solve the plastic waste problem? July 2010 • Volume 4, Issue 7
By Robert Kiener
Environmental Justice
- Environmental Justice / Environmental RacismMultiple links
Niger Delta [Environmental Rights Action]
- Environmental Rights ActionFriends of the Earth - Nigeria
- Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental JusticeHUD-DOT-EPA Partnership for Sustainable Communities
- Justice in Nigeria NowOil-polluted Ogoniland could become environmental model
- UN Refugee Agency UNHCR urges states to redefine response to climate-induced displacementNews Stories, 6 June 2011