Resultados para "Families" en Medioambiente

Author Deb Hunt sets out to discover what makes what makes our Australian farming families tick. Travelling to properties across the country – from a vast, dusty cattle run in outback Queensland to the wheat belt of Western Australia and dairy farms in Tasmania – and introducing us to eight...

Will your family have sufficient food, clean water, renewable power, and other essentials during a down-grid crisis? Would you like to rely less on outside services for your family’s food, water, and electricity? Are you wondering, “How should I start preparing? Which projects should I prioritize?” This thorough guidebook will simplify your prepping by providing clearly outlined steps. Apply these time-tested methods to prepare your family for any off-grid emergency or natural disaster.

In The Conceivable Future, authors Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli explore the ways in which the climate crisis is affecting our personal decisions about family planning, parenting, and political action. This book offers fresh, timely answers to questions such as: How do I decide to have a baby when there's the threat of environmental collapse? How do I parent a child in the middle of the climate crisis? What can I actually do to help stop global warming?

While the big bad corporation has often been the offender in many of the world’s greatest environmental disasters, in the case of the mass poisoning at Camp Lejeune the culprit is a revered institution: the US Marine Corps. For two decades now, revelations have steadily emerged about pervasive contamination, associated clusters of illness and death among the Marine families stationed there, and military stonewalling and failure to act.

At the edge of Houston sits a community like no other: 65 petite, pastel houses inhabited by survivors of Hurricane Katrina and built by one of the most famous people in the world, Oprah Winfrey. The community, funded with $10 million of Oprah's money just a few months after Katrina, is made up of 65 families picked by nonprofit Habitat for Humanity. All pay around $400 a month in mortgage to live there. The houses are nearly identical. Angel Lane is not only a place, but an idea.