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With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem - or thinks it does. While affluent nations throw away food through neglect, in the developing world crops rot because farmers lack the means to process, store and transport them t…
Human waste is a major public health threat: population growth is taxing even the most advanced sewage systems, and the disease spread by waste kills more people worldwide every year than any other single cause of death. Even in America, 1.95 million people have no access to an …
Human waste is a major public health threat: population growth is taxing even the most advanced sewage systems, and the disease spread by waste kills more people worldwide every year than any other single cause of death. Even in America, 1.95 million people have no access to an …
The ultimate in recycling, composting has been in use in some form since ancient times. A well-managed composting facility should exist as a good neighbor contributing to ecology. However, since local populations often perceive risks if a composting facility is built nearby, com…
"This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stow…
"This book presents a general understanding of microbial metabolism and growth in bacteria, fungi, algae, protozoa, rotifers, and other common microorganisms and how the different microorganisms react in mixed cultures in the natural environment. The information flows from the d…
