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Resource efficiency/waste management Activities
Activities for Part Six of Greening Business: One organization’s waste is another organization’s resource. Reducing ‘waste’ within an organization reduces costs through waste disposal and ‘lost’ resource, reduces emissions associated with the transport (and decomposition) of waste, and can provide an additional income stream where waste becomes a useful and valuable resource. ‘Waste management’ or ‘resource efficiency’ includes minimising pollution, as well as reducing, reu
Author(s): Keele University,Stephen Whitfield,Dr Zoe Robinson

Endoparasites in Ruminants - Biology and Epidemology as a Basis of Successful Combatting

Scientific Article. lfz Raumberg-Gumpenstein. 2009. 4 pages

14.72 Capitalism and Its Critics (MIT)
This course examines the implications of economic theories for social and political organization in the context of the historical evolution of industrial societies. Among the authors whose theories will be discussed are Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter, and John Kenneth Galbraith. Emphasis will be placed on class discussion of specific texts. Students will be encouraged to ground their views in concrete textual and empirical material and to consider the implicat
Author(s): Piore, Michael

STS.038 Energy and Environment in American History: 1705-2005 (MIT)
A survey of how America has become the world's largest consumer of energy. Explores American history from the perspective of energy and its relationship to politics, diplomacy, the economy, science and technology, labor, culture, and the environment. Topics include muscle and water power in early America, coal and the Industrial Revolution, electrification, energy consumption in the home, oil and U.S. foreign policy, automobiles and suburbanization, nuclear power, OPEC and the 70's energy crisis
Author(s): Shulman, Peter

11.957 Frameworks of Urban Governance (MIT)
Urban governance comprises the various forces, institutions, and movements that guide economic and physical development, the distribution of resources, social interactions, and other aspects of daily life in urban areas. This course examines governance from legal, political, social, and economic perspectives. In addition, we will discuss how these structures constrain collective decision making about particular urban issues (immigration, education…). Assignments will be nightly readings a
Author(s): Kobes, Deborah

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Compilation of seasonal recipes by Bio Austria (Austrian organization of organic farmers) provided by www.gutessen.at Author(s): No creator set License information Related content No related items provided in this feed Eat healthy in a healthy world: Activity book. Eating healthy is fun Activity book of the series "Healthy Eating" which proposes activities for a healthy diet. Author(s): No creator set License information Related content No related items provided in this feed Rhubarb Compilation of seasonal recipes by Bio Austria (Austrian organization of organic farmers) provided by www.gutessen.at Author(s): No creator set License information Related content No related items provided in this feed 17.50 Introduction to Comparative Politics (MIT) This class first offers some basic analytical frameworks - culture, social structure, and institutions - that you can use to examine a wide range of political outcomes. We then use these frameworks to understand (1) the relationship between democracy and economic development and (2) the relative centralization of political authority across countries. We will use theoretical arguments and a wide range of case studies to address several questions: Why are some countries democratic and others not? Author(s): Lawson, Chappell License information Related content Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative C No related items provided in this feed 14.451 Macroeconomic Theory I (MIT) Introduction to the theories of economic growth. Topics will include basic facts of economic growth and long-run economic development; brief overview of optimal control theory and dynamic programming; basic neoclassical growth model under a variety of market structures; human capital and economic growth; endogenous growth models; models with endogenous technology; models of directed technical change; competition, market structure and growth; financial and economic development; international trad Author(s): Angeletos, George-Marios License information Related content Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative C No related items provided in this feed NAPPC - North American Pollinator Protection Campaign More than 90 organizations are collaborating in the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC). The campaign focuses attention on the "plight of pollinators" and aims to promote awareness of the potential risks to human food production, coordinate nat Author(s): No creator set License information Related content No related items provided in this feed Biogas in the Transport Sector, Austria 2005 < Author(s): No creator set License information Related content No related items provided in this feed STS.462 Social and Political Implications of Technology (MIT) This course is a graduate reading seminar, in which historical and contemporary studies are used to explore the interaction of technology with social and political values. Emphasis is on how technological devices, structures, and systems influence the organization of society and the behavior of its members. Examples are drawn from the technologies of war, transportation, communication, production, and reproduction. Author(s): Mindell, David,Smith, Merritt Roe License information Related content Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative C No related items provided in this feed Bionet -Brochure with Focus on Oil Crops Information on biogas and compost provided by arge kompost & biogas, Austria This brochure presents field trials to find possibilities for successful incorporation of oil crops in organic crop rotations. The research focus lies on the investigation of the suitability for cultivation of oil crops for mixed cropping and the effects of variety selection Author(s): No creator set License information Related content No related items provided in this feed National Ag Safety Database (NASD) Published on the Web by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), NASD is an online database of materials that are devoted to increased safety, health and injury prevention in agriculture. Materials provided include full text Author(s): No creator set License information Related content No related items provided in this feed Minimum Dimensions of Breeding Sows FIBL-Fact-Sheet Author(s): No creator set License information Related content No related items provided in this feed Pollen Beetle FIBL fact sheet: The biological production of rapeseed is challening and requires preventive measures. Author(s): No creator set License information Related content No related items provided in this feed Provoke Organic Hens Moult FIBL-Leaflet Author(s): No creator set License information Related content No related items provided in this feed 21L.488 Contemporary Literature: British Novels Now (MIT) What is Britain now? Its metropolises are increasingly multicultural. Its hold over its distant colonies is a thing of the past. Its sway within the global political arena is weak. Its command over Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland is broken or threatened. What have novelists made of all this? What are they writing as the old empire fades away and as new social and political formations emerge? These are the questions that will concern us in this course. Author(s): Brouillette, Sarah License information Related content Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. 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