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?
Brilliant
Brilliant - 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 Brilliant write by Jane Brox. This book was released on 2010-06-29. Brilliant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This “superb history” of artificial light traces the evolution of society—“invariably fascinating and often original . . . [it] amply lives up to its title” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In Brilliant, Jane Brox explores humankind’s ever-changing relationship to artificial light, from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. More than a survey of technological development, this sweeping history reveals how artificial light changed our world, and how those social and cultural changes in turn led to the pursuit of more ways of spreading, maintaining, and controlling light. Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn’t—through the centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She identifies the pursuit of whale oil as the first time the need for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world’s ecosystems. Edison’s bulbs produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox’s informative portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us. Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light
Plastic-Free
Plastic-Free - 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 Plastic-Free write by Beth Terry. This book was released on 2015-04-21. Plastic-Free available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Guides readers toward the road less consumptive, offering practical advice and moral support while making a convincing case that individual actions . . . do matter.” —Elizabeth Royte, author, Garbage Land and Bottlemania Like many people, Beth Terry didn’t think an individual could have much impact on the environment. But while laid up after surgery, she read an article about the staggering amount of plastic polluting the oceans, and decided then and there to kick her plastic habit. In Plastic-Free, she shows you how you can too, providing personal anecdotes, stats about the environmental and health problems related to plastic, and individual solutions and tips on how to limit your plastic footprint. Presenting both beginner and advanced steps, Terry includes handy checklists and tables for easy reference, ways to get involved in larger community actions, and profiles of individuals—Plastic-Free Heroes—who have gone beyond personal solutions to create change on a larger scale. Fully updated for the paperback edition, Plastic-Free also includes sections on letting go of eco-guilt, strategies for coping with overwhelming problems, and ways to relate to other people who aren’t as far along on the plastic-free path. Both a practical guide and the story of a personal journey from helplessness to empowerment, Plastic-Free is a must-read for those concerned about the ongoing health and happiness of themselves, their children, and the planet.
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 2011-08. Bottlemania available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covers the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that bring bottled water to our supermarkets. Describes how Perrier transformed bottled water into a commodity, and how Nestle, with its purchase of Poland Spring, expanded that brand. In one particularly controversial Poland Spring source, in Fryeburg, Maine, a bitter dispute has erupted between the townspeople and the multinational corp. that covets its water. It¿s a story fraught with betrayal, bad faith, and good people battling against the odds. What the citizens of this town learn about the ownership of water will ultimately matter a great deal to all of us. ¿A riveting chronicle of one of the greatest marketing coups of the 20th century, as well as a powerful environmental wake-up call.¿
The Tapir's Morning Bath
The Tapir's Morning Bath - 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 The Tapir's Morning Bath write by Elizabeth Royte. This book was released on 2002. The Tapir's Morning Bath available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An engaging portrait of a community of biologists, The Tapir's Morning Bathis a behind-the-scenes account of life at a tropical research station that"conveys the uncertainties, frustrations, and joys of [scientific] fieldwork" (Science). On Panama's Barro Colorado Island, Elizabeth Royte worksalongside the scientists -- counting seeds, sorting insects, collectingmonkey dung, radiotracking fruit bats -- as they struggle to parse theintricate workings of the tropical rain forest. While showing the humanside of the scientists at work, Royte explores the tensions between the slow pace of basic research and the reality of a world that may not have time to wait for answers.
