Bottled and Sold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bottled and Sold write by Peter H. Gleick. This book was released on 2010-04-20. Bottled and Sold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years. That's a big story, and water is big business. Gleick exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fear mongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.
Bottlemania
Bottlemania - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bottlemania write by Elizabeth Royte. This book was released on 2011-01-15. Bottlemania available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. The brands have become so ubiquitous that we're hardly conscious that Poland Spring and Evian were once real springs, bubbling in remote corners of Maine and France. Only now, with the water industry trading in the billions of dollars, have we begun to question what it is we're drinking. In this intelligent, accomplished work of narrative journalism, Elizabeth Royte does for water what Michael Pollan did for food: she finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that bring it from distant aquifers to our supermarkets. Along the way, she investigates the questions we must inevitably answer. Who owns our water? How much should we drink? Should we have to pay for it? Is tap safe water safe to drink? And if so, how many chemicals are dumped in to make it potable? What happens to all those plastic bottles we carry around as predictably as cell phones? And of course, what's better: tap water or bottled?
Bottled Up
Bottled Up - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bottled Up write by Suzanne Barston. This book was released on 2012-10-18. Bottled Up available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the issue of breast feeding and whether it is fair to judge parenting on breast vs. bottle as opposed to making the right choice for a family.
Sun in a Bottle
Sun in a Bottle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sun in a Bottle write by Charles Seife. This book was released on 2008. Sun in a Bottle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the last half century's haphazard attempt to harness fusion energy, describing how governments and research teams throughout the world have employed measures ranging from the controversial to the humorous.
Bottled Lightning
Bottled Lightning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bottled Lightning write by Seth Fletcher. This book was released on 2011-05-10. Bottled Lightning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lithium batteries may hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a "smart" power grid that can actually store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and the wind and use them when we need them, lithium—a metal half as dense as water, found primarily in some of the most uninhabitable places on earth—has the potential to set us on a path toward a low-carbon energy economy. In Bottled Lightning, the science reporter Seth Fletcher takes us on a fascinating journey, from the salt flats of Bolivia to the labs of MIT and Stanford, from the turmoil at GM to cutting-edge lithium-ion battery start-ups, introducing us to the key players and ideas in an industry with the power to reshape the world. Lithium is the thread that ties together many key stories of our time: the environmental movement; the American auto industry, staking its revival on the electrification of cars and trucks; the struggle between first-world countries in need of natural resources and the impoverished countries where those resources are found; and the overwhelming popularity of the portable, Internet-connected gadgets that are changing the way we communicate. With nearly limitless possibilities, the promise of lithium offers new hope to a foundering American economy desperately searching for a green-tech boom to revive it.
