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The official Earth Day guide to planet repair by Hayes, Denis, Denis Hayes is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
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Everyone talks about the weather but no one ever does anything about it. Sadly, that old joke is no longer true. A large body of increasingly compelling scientific evidence is telling us that many things we do - from the kinds of cars we drive to how we heat our homes - are directly affecting our global climate in unprecedented and alarming ways. But what can any one person do about this vast, global problem? Help fix it! And it doesn't have to be a do-it-yourself project; we citizens and stewards of the earth can unite in greater numbers and power than ever before. In The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair, Earth Day leader and renewable energy expert Denis Hayes tells us how changes in individual, local, and national energy choices can slow or even stop the dangerous build-up of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, while at the same time saving us money, helping the economy, creating new jobs, and enhancing human health. A how-to home improvement guide for the planet, the book: describes the problem of global warming today as well as its likely effects in the future considers the sources of energy available to us, and explains why one of them is the Earth's best hope of
Who reads The official Earth Day guide to planet repair?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hayes, Denis, Denis Hayes
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Island Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781559638098
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Social Science, Anthropology, Science
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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