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Oil on the Brain
Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Journey to Your Tank © 2007 Lisa Magonelli 336 pages Every moment, oil is surging up wells, being chemically sorted in vast refineries, sloshing its way across continents in pipelines, and being dispersed … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, China, commerce, goods/services, Middle East, Near East, occupational account, on the job, Persia, Persia-Iran, resources, South America
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A Splendid Exchange
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World© 2009 David Bernstein496 pages History oft moves with the caravans and trade fleets, and its journeys along the routes of the past and present are given a storied account … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Asia, Britain, commerce, Europe, goods/services, history, Middle East, Near East, Netherlands, resources, survey, trains
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dirt
dirt: the erosion of civilizations© 2007 Peter R. Montgomery295 pages Civilizations rise or crumble on the soundness of their dirt, says David Montgomery. The life of a people is tied to the life of its soil, in its ability … Continue reading
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Tagged China, ecology, Egypt, environmentalism, farming, organic, resources, Rome, stewardship, sustainability
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Edens Lost and Found
Edens Lost and Found: How Ordinary Citizens are Restoring Our Great American Cities© 2006 Harry Wiland, Dale Bell, Joseph D’Agnes285 pages I can hear Atlanta crying loud as she looks for hope and change / but we can’t count on … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, cities, civic activism, civic awareness, ecology, Los Angeles, participation, Philadelphia, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, resources, Seattle
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