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The best. Period.
George Bockl's real estate books are simply the best of the best, superb. They walk you through developing properties, using numbers, in a way few other books do. The author is a man of great decency and honesty and his way of dealing with people is heartwarming and a model for us to follow. ... Read more

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This book is the essential guide for teaching children about nature and environmental protection. This guide shows teachers how to incorporate ?green? concepts into everyday lessons, activities, and field trips. Also included are ways to send the lesson home, with clear steps for teaching children how to make saving the earth a part of their daily lives. Features information on:

• The best ways to address issues like global warming and the disappearing rainforests
  
• Sustainable school supplies
  
• Eco-friendly fundraising
  
• Inspiring field trip ideas (from the local farm to the local landfill!)
  
• Innovative ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle
  

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Ideal for today's young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive "To Find Out More" section listing books, organizations, and Internet sites. A staple of library collections since the 1950s, the new A True Book series is the definitive nonfiction series for elementary school readers. ... Read more

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Items ok - Shipping Charges not
The products are fine and were delivered in a timely manner, however, I purchased 4 small books from the same seller and was charged the individual shipping charge for each item. I was charged over $15 shipping for 4 children's paperback books all coming from the same place. The books could not have weighed more than 1 pound combined. Next time I will be sure to look for the sellers that say "will combine items for shipping". ... Read more

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This is a collection of twenty earth and pocket-friendly projects including cardboard tube people, plastic bag beads and paper gift-bags, made from recycled materials found at home. It contains tips on safely recycling materials including how to strip a plastic wire, paint over patterned cardboard and cut a cardboard tube. It is illustrated with clear, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions. ... Read more

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Arnie, a pickle jar, and Bing, a lemonade can, meet in a grocery cart. Their friendship grows when they're placed side by side in the refrigerator and discover they share a love of singing. But after a picnic, and they've been emptied, they're tossed into a recycling bin, picked up by a truck, and lose each other among all the other recyclables! Will they ever see each other again? Find out what happens in this book written and designed for the elementary-aged student, with fun, rhyming text, and eye-popping, realistic photos and illustrations. ... Read more

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Great for elementary aged students!
"Recycling with Arnie and Bing" is a great introduction to recycling as the characters take on fun personalities and guide you through their lives as they are recycled. Students can relate to the characters and even though the actual steps of recycling can be complex, the pictures and dialogue make the process understandable to elementary aged students. The 2nd and 3rd graders at my school really enjoyed this book and showed that they understood the content in the activities that followed the reading of the book. I would definitely recommend this book to classroom teachers and librarians who are looking for an entertaining and informative book about recycling.

Recycling is fun and Helpful!
Recyling with Arnie and Bing would make a great present forelementary age students to read and share with their family.What an appropriate subject for our world!!I'm buying copies for my grandchildren, nieces and nephews! ... Read more

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When Mrs. MacGregor introduces the Aldens to the local recycling center, they bring home lots of great stuff, including unused notebooks and fun pinata. Mrs. MacGregor was right, you can find treasure in junk. When a series of break-ins and vandalization hits the center, the Alden kids are there to help solve the mystery! ... Read more

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A series of four books that provide extensive guidance and English practice in key areas of the language.This book for lower-intermediate to intermediate students provides extensive guidance and practice in four crucial areas: Grammar, Vocabulary, Situations and Writing. Recycling Intermediate English can be used to supplement any coursebook at this level, in class or for self-study. It provides useful extra practice for the Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET) and the Skills for Life Entry 3 examination. ... Read more

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In Cash for Your Trash, Carl A. Zimring provides a fascinating history of scrap recycling, from colonial times to the present. Integrating findings from archival, industrial, and demographic records, and moving beyond the environmental developments that have shaped modern recycling enterprises, Zimring offers a unique cultural and economic portrait of the private businesses that made large-scale recycling possible. ... Read more

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Even though over 30% of the aluminum produced worldwide now comes from secondary sources (recycled material), there are few books that cover the recycling process from beginning to end. Meeting the need for a comprehensive treatment of the aluminum recycling process, Aluminum Recycling explores the technology and processing strategies required to convert scrap aluminum and its alloys into new aluminum products and mixtures.

The book details the collecting, sorting, and separating of scrap aluminum as well as the processing and upgrading equipment used. It first describes the aluminum alloys that are contained in the ore body and the various "mines" where aluminum scrap is found, followed by a discussion of the procedures for separating scrap aluminum from other materials. Subsequent chapters review the furnaces used for remelting the recovered scrap and the refining techniques that improve its purity and quality. The book also discusses the economics of scrap recycling and outlines the structure of the recycling industry. The final chapter addresses the unique environmental and safety challenges that recycling operations face.

Although the benefits of recycling are numerous, aluminum recycling presents a series of unique challenges. Aluminum Recycling expertly leads you through the sequences of scrap aluminum recycling to provide a solid foundation for overcoming these obstacles. ... Read more

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Sustainable Futures explores the current threats to our world resources and the possible solutions to some of the most urgent and difficult problems facing today's decision-makers.Waste, Recycling and Reuse answers these questions and many others. From kerbside recycling schemes to building homes from old aluminium cans this title looks at the issues surrounding the production and disposal of waste worldwide.Discover what we mean by the 3Rs - reduce, reuse and recycle - and what you can do to help tackle the waste problem. ... Read more

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There have been many articles over the years about thebenefits of composting for gardeners, but living in the city without ayard, this reviewer never really thought it was something that wouldapply to me with my handful of flower boxes and potted plantsoutside. Joke's on me! This book tells you everything you need toknow about composting and household refuse, and most importantly, howto get STARTED, and will be enough to convince you to finally getorganized and go for it. ... Read more

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excellent for beginners
Earlier this summer I developed an interest in gardening, and especially the at-home composting. I found that this book was recommended to me more than any other.

I picked it up at my local library and was surprised at how thorough it was. After all, who knew that there were so many methods to composting?

This book helped me to quickly and easily set up my first compost pile, which is coming along great. It even has tips for indoor composters!

This book is like having a neighbor show us how to compost.
How do we demystify the simple act of home composting? This easy to read book is the next best thing to having a helpful neighbor show us how to compost. During my past 10 years as a compost evangelist, I have conductedhome composting workshops for thousands of people. Backyard Composting isoften distributed by sponsoring agencies for public education and includedwith the purchase of a compost bin. I like the way this book combines basichow-to's and a holistic perspective of how compost fits in to the notion ofsustainability, recycling, and permaculture. ... Read more

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Resource recovery and recycling from millions of tons of wastes produced from industrial activities is a continuing challenge for environmental engineers and researchers. Demand for conservation of resources, reduction in the quantity of waste and sustainable development with environmental control has been growing in every part of the world.

Waste Processing and Recycling in Mineral and Metallurgical Industries brings together the currently used techniques of waste processing and recycling, their applications with practical examples and economic potentials of the processes. Emphasis is on resource recovery by appropriate treatment and techniques. Material on the subject is scatterend in waste management and environmental related journals, conference volumes and government departmental technical reports. This work serves as a source book of information and as an educational technical reference for practicing scientists and engineers, as well as for students.

* Describes the currently used and potential techniques for the recovery of valuable resources from mineral and metallurgical wastes
* Discusses the applications to specific kinds of wastes with examples from current practices, as well as eht economics of the processes
* Presents recent and emerging technologies of potentials in metal recycling and by-product utilization ... Read more

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A classic is back in print! One of the favorite books of 1970s back-to-the-landers, The Toilet Papers is an informative, inspiring, and irreverent look at how people have dealt with their wastes through the centuries. In a historical survey, Van der Ryn provides the basic facts concerning human wastes, and describes safe designs for toilets that reduce water consumption and avert the necessity for expensive and unreliable treatment systems. The Toilet Papers provides do-it-yourself plans for a basic compost privy and a variety of graywater systems.Amazon.com Review
A classic is back in print!One of the favorite books of the back-to-the-land movement, The Toilet Papers provides an informative and irreverent look at how people have deal with human wastes over the centuries,and at what safe designs are available today that reduce water consumptionand avert the necessity for expensive treatment systems.Van der Ryn provideshomeowner plans for several types of dry toilets, compost privies, and greywatersystems, and also discusses the history and philosophy of turning organic wastesinto a rich humus, linking us to the fertility of the soil and ensuring ourultimate well-being.Van der Ruyn is a former architect, and his designsfor compost privies are downright elegant as well as environmentally sound. ... Read more

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The Toilet Papers
I bought this book to replace a previous copy that went misssing. Excellent info on composting toilets and supposedly alternative waste disposal systems. Brings home the point that our so called normal systems are not always the best.

30 years new
Wise use of water was a critical issue three decades ago when this book was first published.It's even more important now.The Toilet Papers is clear, simple, specific, and has one of the best book titles ever.Wendell Berry's elegantly eloquent foreword provide what is still the most succinct reasoning for WHY we should stop flushing, transporting, treating, then re-transporting our human excretions.


Van Der Ryn describes how to make your own composting toilet, as well as reviewing packaged systems.Now there a few more (but not enough) manufacturers of packaged composting dry toilet systems, though US plumbing codes and building departments are woefully behind in approving them.Once they do, widespread adoption will be possible and is hopefully inevitable, as it will save water, money, and fossil fuels, not to mention reduce the amount of chemicals we put into our environment and thus, into our bodies.

Water shortage???
As the world ponders how we will all survive as unpolluted water becomes scarcer and scarcer, eventually one has to ask, 'why do we go to the bathroom in a bowl of fresh drinking water????'

Please don't tell me that it's 'because that's the way we've always done it'.

It's time for this book.

Hopefully, it will be read by people who have the brains and guts and good-natured cleverness to actually do something cool and constructive and environmentally sound about these things.

Fascinating History and Current Eco-Toilet Design

With a title like "Toilet Papers" and from a distinguished eco-architect like Sim Van der Ryn, I needed no intro or review to buy a copy of this little, but well researched historical over-view of effluent mitigation and current eco-friendly toilet design.

This book is filled with good line drawings and photographs to depict everything from the historical perspective to the current dry toilets and their construction.

The book starts out with:
"Throughout this book, you will find the word "waste" used to refer to those raw materials-feces and urine-your body passes on to make energy available to some other form of life. This is what you give back to the earth. The idea of waste, of something unusable, reveals an incomplete understanding of how things work.
Nature admits no waste. Nothing is left over; everything is joined in the spiral of life. Perhaps other cultures know this better than we, for they have no concept of, no word for, waste". And under that thought provoking consideration of resource cycles, there is:

"A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost"- Lao Tze, 500 B.C.

The intro is by Wendell Berry, farmer, novelist, poet. He posits that "modern" effluent mitigation is as insane as drinking right from an un-flushed toilet: "It is not inconceivable that some psychiatrist would ask me knowingly why I wanted to mess up my drinking water in the first place". Indeed.

After the fascinating human waste history lessons, we are given a short crash-course on the biology of waste, then it's on to the fruit of the book: dry composting toilet designs and their efficacy. This is in good detail and makes for a complete handbook on waterless toilet design.

Finally, there is the Epilogue and I would be amiss in my review if I did not reveal a little taste of it: [Any technology divorced from the whole of nature tends to produce a condition that poet Robert Graves calls "mechanarchy": the perfection of technological means to produce a chaotic sterile environment. The current technology of "waste disposal" (the term reveals the syndrome) is still fighting a war against nature, built on fragments of 19th century science not yet integrated into an understanding of life processes as a unified, but cyclical, whole."] True enough!
Sim Van der Ryn has produced a gem of proper waste recycling in this informing little book.His website is well worth a visit also.

An informative companion to "Toilet Papers" is "The Humanure Handbook" by Joseph Jenkins- a how-to on safely composting one's excrement back into a nutrient rich amendment for the vegetable garden instead of flushing it away as waste.

Stop wasting waste--here's the why and the how
Most farmers and gardeners fertilize soil using manure from the many animals except humans. Because of our diet, humanure is unsurpassed in nutrients. Asians have used it for thousands of years. Generations offamilies using flush toilets have resulted in psychological negativity--theyuck factor. So humanure is mostly wasted and goes into sewage treatmentplants or septic systems, causing much unnecessary expense and pollution ofgroundwater. The most commonsense treatment of humanure is to collect it,compost it, and then use it for fertilizer for ornamentals and those plantsthat fruit above-ground: fruit trees, tomatoes, peppers, beans and thelike. Humanure composted for a year is indistinguishable from rich soil.Van der Ryn provides here the why and the how. ... Read more

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The realities of climate change can be overwhelming, but the good news is that-with your help-global warming can be slowed and ultimately stopped. You may already recycle those newspapers and milk cartons, and perhaps you have a compost pile in the backyard. But what about that old inkjet cartridge? Or that scratched CD? Green House: Eco-Friendly Disposal and Recycling at Home is an A to Z guide to disposing and recycling all varieties of common household trash, from broken appliances to spent smoke detectors and cell phones to pet waste.

With a sense of humor and an eye towards modern-day practicalities, Norm Crampton discusses the most environmentally-friendly methods of dealing with household waste, and when there are multiple disposal options, he describes the ins and outs of each alternative. Crampton also points out that some trash may be someone else's treasure-some recyclers may pay you for your old cell phone and your cooking grease can become bio-fuel! For homeowners and apartment dwellers alike, Green House is a handy little reference book and the first step towards reducing your ecological footprint. ... Read more