If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth's warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. One hundred techniques and practices are described here-some are well known some you may have never heard of. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming written by Paul Hawken which was published in. "In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. Brief Summary of Book: Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken.
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1 In addition to nearly decimating the region, plague created physical, psychological, and economic suffering for thousands more. Though by the end of 1637 the outbreak in London and Westminster proved to be a milder one than those of 1625 or 1603 had been, it still carried off 10,400 individuals-7.5% of the city and its liberties' estimated total population. Thousands fled the city thousands more were quarantined in their homes or isolated in pesthouses. Parishes assembled physicians, nurses, and surgeons to care for the sick and hired searchers and bearers to find and transport the dead and dying. The national government republished the books of orders for controlling outbreaks and wrote to aldermen and justices of the peace, urging them to stay at their posts. The outbreak of bubonic plague that struck London and Westminster in 1636 provoked the usual frenzied response to epidemics. When, by happenstance, he stumbled onto the truth and walked out of Herm's stores around the world having bought millions.and millions.of dollars in Birkins, he became one of eBay's most successful entrepreneurs, and a Robin Hood (of sorts) to thousands of desperate rich women.Over the next five years, Michael's bag-buying forays took him around the globe, into the lives of celebrities and poseurs, even into danger: hiring thugs to rescue a bag held for ransom and eluding Herm's watchful eye. "Bringing Home the Birkin" is the riveting story of how one man exposed the underbelly of the lucrative handbag industry.Michael Tonello's newfound career started with an impulsive move to Barcelona, the vanishing of a job assignment, no work visa, and a Herm's scarf sold on eBay to generate some quick cash. But this is not a buyers' market, and if you're like many women, you would jump hurdles in your high heels for the chance to own this ultimate symbol of luxury and style. The supposed 'wait list' is two years long, and when Herm's calls, they may not even offer you the Birkin you want. After more than twenty years, the iconic Birkin remains the ultimate status symbol and probably the most coveted accessory of all time. If you want an Herm's Birkin bag, be prepared to wait. The list also reveals that there are much earlier antecedents for this genre at the beginning of the century, and that the device is still very much with us. Books using this device seem to cluster in the 1960s and '70s-as can be seen from this (by no means exhaustive) chronological list: 1906 Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hillġ906 Edith Nesbit, The Story of the Amuletġ954 Lucy Boston, The Children of Green Knoweġ958 Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Gardenġ973 Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempeġ974 Penelope Lively, The House in Norham Gardens In this article, I want to look at a group of English children's novels that features the "time-slip" device: that is, the protagonist slips back in time, characters from the past reappear in the present, or both. Time-Slip Narratives and National Identity Tess Cosslett In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Sullivan was the recipient of the 2005 Tin House memoir fellowship, and in 2001, she founded the critically acclaimed literary journal Small Spiral Notebook. Her work has appeared in Swink, Post Road, Mississippi Review, and Pindeldyboz and in the anthologies Homewrecker: An Atlas of Illicit Loves and Money Changes Everything, among others. A frequent contributor to The Huffington Post, she is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best American Essays notable. Sullivan is the author of the memoir The Sky Isn’t Visible From Here. She now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, a neurologist, and her two-year-old daughter, an aspiring zookeeper.įelicia C. In addition to working in a dentist’s office, Elizabeth Gaffney has bussed tables, made funnel cakes, sold t-shirts, served all-you-can-eat crabs and beer to tourists, edited at the literary magazines The Paris Review and A Public Space, translated three books from German and written a novel called Metropolis. He teaches at the University of Cincinnati. Brock Clarke is the author of four books of fiction, most recently the novel An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England. one of the best fantasy trilogies in recent memory."- RT Book Reviews (five stars) These books are a revolution in which I want to take part."- NPR Books "The depth and breadth of Jemisin's achievement with this trilogy is geologic. "Vivid characters, a tautly constructed plot, and outstanding worldbuilding meld into an impressive and timely story of abused, grieving survivors fighting to fix themselves and save the remnants of their shattered home."- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Painful and powerful."- Kirkus (starred review) "Jemisin deliberately refuses to provide easy answers: they're simply not available, in this world or ours. " has pretty well conquered with the Broken Earth."- The New York Times "Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold."- Entertainment Weekly She's that good."- John Scalzi, Wall Street Journal establishes as arguably the most important speculative writer of her generation. The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on eyewitness reporting over three decades, interviews with key figures and documents from archives in China and the West. Essential reading for anyone wishing to deal with China or to understand the world in which we live. An epic history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. Whitehead himself, as well as Hartshorne, Cobb, and others, pointed out certain parallels with Mahayana Buddhism regarding their common denial of an underlying substantial substratum for enduring objects. Though an outgrowth of Western philosophy, process philosophy has many affinities with the Chinese tradition. The author traces some affinities within neo-Confucianism that point in the direction of many themes of process philosophy, namely the relations of mind, action, and value. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock. Process Studies is published quarterly by the Center for Process Studies, 1325 N. The following article appeared in Process Studies, pp. Robert Neville is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, College at Purchase, and on the Staff of the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. The married mother of three currently makes her home in Atlanta Georgia, where she lives with her children. She is active in the writing community and is a member of Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. In her attempt to become an author, she attended the Robert McKee Story Seminar, and the Yale Writers Workshop. She established this when she was Association of Corporate Counsel President of the Georgia chapter. She is the founder of the “Women’s Initiative,” the signature female empowerment. Given her long career, she has become an accomplished leader and presenter of ideas. In her previous job as a corporate attorney, she worked in the legal departments of several Fortune 100 companies in the United States. Wanda is a corporate attorney but she is best known for her debut novel “All Her Little Secrets.” Morris is a bestselling author that Karin Slaughter called a welcome and vibrant new voice in the thriller genre. The Margaret Court match had already happened, and she lost (to Riggs) - that was Mother's Day that year. I have a July birthday, so I remember my godmother gave me a birthday present - she may have made it herself from newspaper article clippings about the match that was coming up. I remember a tremendous lead-up to Battle of the Sexes. Bringing the tennis to life in 'Battle of the Sexes'.So that was a big, important year - to know that I was elite not just in Maryland or in mid-Atlantic or in my USTA section, but nationally, I was starting to get on the map. But when I was 13, I think that was the year that, behind Tracy Austin, I had become ranked nationally. I still played varsity basketball my freshman year of high school - basketball was the last sport I gave up for my tennis. It's when I gave up skiing, I gave up winter sports. When I was 13, tennis became more of my life. But in the scheme of how the top 11-year-olds train these days, I didn't play anywhere near the amount of tennis. I was starting to play some state tournaments, maybe I played one national tournament. It was becoming a bigger part of my life, but it was still mainly my summer hobby. Living in Baltimore at age 11, I was still not single-focused on tennis. She recalled for espnW her memories of that day. Pam Shriver, who would go on to win 21 major doubles titles, was 11 at the time. 20, 1973, Billie Jean King played Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes. |