Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 7 doc

... use of plastics contrib- ute to amore efficient use of global resources. In addi- tion to the plastics industries, the ACC represents the producers and distributers of chlorine. As part of the global ... 2009. Transportation 37% Packaging 23% Building 13% Electrical 8% Machinery 8% Consumer durables 7% Other 4% U.S. End Uses of Aluminum nates theneed for theextremely high...

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... networks of local govern - ments have been active in the implementation of Lo - cal Agenda 21 in all continents, with such groups as Global Resources Agenda 21 • 7 to react and form a complex set of ... Aggregates Global Resources A Global Partnership The opening paragraph of the Preamble to Agenda 21 pre - sents an unusually stark statement of the challenges facing huma...

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... Sites U.S. Department of Energy About the Department of Energy: Origins and Evolution of the Department of Energy http://www.energy.gov/about/origins.htm U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science: ... resources, and 2.6 times the quantity of recoverable resources, of Kazakhstan. Australia’s ura- nium resources are also known for having a relatively low cost of extracti...

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... and marketable in the global economy. Managing Biodiversity Humans are part of an evolving lineage and are also part of global biodiversity. Human population growth and the integration of rural, formerly ... gas with 108 • Biofuels Global Resources Biofuel Energy Balances The following table lists several crops that have been consid- ered as viable biofuel sources and severa...

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... reductioninthe cost of production of an - imal products. As with plants, disease-resistant ani - Global Resources Biotechnology • 1 27 Rambler, MitchellB.,Lynn Margulis, andRenéFester, eds. Global Ecology: ... populations con - 126 • Biotechnology Global Resources OriginOil cofounderNicholas Eckelberry standsbeside containersof algaethat he and his company hope can be used as a...

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... 1985. Kovel, Joel.The Enemy ofNature: TheEnd of Capitalismor the End of the World? 2d ed. London: Zed Books, 20 07. Global Resources Capitalism and resource exploitation • 171 Delhaes, Pierre, ed. ... reservoir of carbon may be found on the surface of the Earth. Most of this reservoir is in rock and sediment. Since the “turnover” time of such forms of carbon is so long (on...

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... and Global Resources Conservation biology • 2 47 is, there is a limit to the number of people that can be supported by the Earth. The rate of resource deple- tion is a function both of the rate of ... ownership of resources through vehicles such as trusts to avoid depletion of natural resources mostly nonrenew- able resources is another proposal being debated. Those invol...

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... CERT set out to inven- tory the resources of the tribes of the West and found that they controlled one-third of U.S. coal and ura- nium resources and large supplies of petroleum and natural gas. ... Site Council of Energy Resource Tribes http://www.certredearth.com/ See also: Coal; Oil and natural gas distribution; Oil embargo and energy crises of 1 973 and 1 979 ; Oil in- dus...

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... Plants Total listings 3 57 275 119 32 151 76 72 22 61 12 74 7 Endangered species 325 254 79 21 85 65 64 19 51 12 599 United States 69 75 13 13 74 64 62 19 47 12 598 Other countries 256 179 66 8 11 1 2 — ... also: Biofuels; Coal; Cogeneration; Department of Energy, U.S.; Energy economics; Energy Policy Act; Energy storage; Fuel cells; Geothermal and hydro - Global Resources Elect...

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... 2. 471 acres Hectoliter Volume/capacity hl 26.418 gallons 2.838 bushels Hertz Frequency Hz 1.0 878 277 570 776 7 × 10 –10 cesium atom frequency Hour Time h 60 minutes 3,600 seconds Inch Length in or ″ ... . . . . . 4 67 Freeze-drying of food. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471 Friends of the Earth International. . . . . . . . 472 Fuel cells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472...

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