Tom Butler

"Every major problem facing humanity is exacerbated by a needlessly ballooning human population. So why is the explosive growth of the human family--more than sevenfold since the Industrial Revolution and still expanding rapidly--generally ignored by policy makers and the media? And why has the environmental movement chosen to be mostly silent about the fundamental driver of species loss and the destruction of wildlife habitats around the globe? Isn't it time to start speaking out about the equation that matters most to the future of people and the planet? The publication centerpiece of the Global Population Speakout campaign, Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot ("OVER") moves beyond insider debates and tired arguments (human numbers and overconsumption are both responsible for the crisis of population overshoot). Anchored by a series of provocative photo essays, OVER presents the stark reality of a world transformed by human action, action that threatens our future and the buzzing, blossoming diversity of life with which we share the planet."--Publisher website.

Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot

Kevin Yank

Questa pratica guida insegna l'uso degli strumenti e i principi che permettono di realizzare una moderna applicazione web. Il lettore ideale ha già una buona conoscenza di HTML e vuole allargare le sue competenze alla programmazione lato server per gestire dati di vario tipo, fornire agli utenti contenuti personalizzati e lavorare a framework adattabili in progetti differenti. Il percorso di apprendimento parte dall'installazione di PHP e MySQL per arrivare alla realizzazione di CMS completi e funzionali. Gli sviluppatori alle prime armi apprezzeranno il linguaggio semplice, le spiegazioni passo passo e il codice degli esempi da testare, mentre quelli più esperti troveranno utile la trattazione delle tecniche di programmazione più avanzate e complesse. Il testo fa riferimento a PHP 7 e alle moderne versioni di MySQL 5.

Guida per imparare la programmazione web lato server

Sviluppare applicazioni con PHP e MySQL

Mental health services are changing due to pressures from within the services and changes in social policy outside of mental health care. This work examines the issues involved in the care of the mentally ill in the context of a society undergoing profound changes in health and social care.

The Politics and Policy

Changing Mental Health Services

The Appalachian mountain range is the oldest in the world and it's disappearing one mountain top at a time. Plundering Appalachia takes a bold look at the out-of-control strip mining in the American heartland and its threat to our environment. The Appalachians are the oldest mountains in the world, and they are literally disappearing. The term “mountaintop removal mining,” coined to describe the coal-mining process currently at work in much of Appalachia, is in reality, exactly what the name suggests: a mountain, formed over millions of years, is decapitated with explosives—the “overburden” scraped into adjacent valleys—and the exposed coal collected. No living thing survives this “removal,” and if the land is replanted, its ecosystem will be nothing like that of the ancient mountaintop it previously held. The process is not only destructive and toxic, but ultimately unsustainable: not one of the four hundred plus mountains blasted has yet grown back. Plundering Appalachia is a collection of photographs and essays presenting the grim realities of mountaintop removal mining: The effects of the blasting on the environment and the people and animals in its wake. The irreversible devastation of the natural landscape of Appalachia. How mountaintop removal is or is not regulated The true costs of the practice over time. Most people in the United States are connected to mountaintop removal in some way. Even if they have never visited the Appalachians, they consume products derived from the mining haul or they are affected by the drastic changes the mining has on their ecosystem. The contributors to Plundering Appalachia clearly wish to empower a nation to action—to get past the rhetoric of the coal industry and see the real Appalachia. It is a plea for a region whose natural beauty deserves to be enjoyed by future generations. Includes essays by: David W. Orr, Vivian Stockman, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Ross Gelbspan, Richard Heinberg, Carl Pope, Denise Giardina, Lisa Evans, Ken Hechler, Jerry Hardt, Wendell Berry and more.

The Tragedy of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Plundering Appalachia

Brian Fitzgerald

Debra Howcroft

Janice DeGross

Eileen Trauth

This book presents the proceedings of the Working Conference on the societal and organizational implications for information systems of social inclusion. The contributed papers explore technology design and use in organizations, and consider the processes that engender social exclusion along with the issues that derive from it. The conference, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2, was held in Limerick, Ireland, in July, 2006.

IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 International Working Conference, July 12-15, 2006, Limerick, Ireland

Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems

PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 6th Edition is a hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles, and techniques needed to build a fully functional application using PHP & MySQL. Comprehensively updated to cover PHP 7 and modern best practice, this practical and fun book covers everything from installing PHP and MySQL through to creating a complete online content management system. You'll learn how to: Install PHP & MySQL on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux Gain a thorough understanding of PHP syntax Use object oriented programming techniques Master database design principles and SQL Develop robust websites that can handle high levels of traffic Build a working content management system (CMS) And much more!

Get Up to Speed With PHP the Easy Way

PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja

A handbook of ideas for coping with the loss of a loved one. Written by one who has personal experience.

A Griever's Handbook Don't Cry Because It's Over Smile Because it Happened

A collection of groundbreaking essays on conservation and the environment features cojent writing about the destruction of Hawaiian bird sanctuaries, development, and the reintroduction of elephants into North America, among other fascinating topics. Original.

Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balance

Wild Earth

A story about a young boy, Bobby, being abducted from a wealthy family in Boston, which was arranged by the maid for devious reasons. The boy was forced to live the life of a vagrant, when at the age of thirteen decides to leave his guardian. The maid and the kidnapper will stop at nothing, including murder, to obtain the boy's rightful inheritance. The story is set in the Midwest in the year 1942.

Bobby, Lost and Found

George Wuerthner

Eileen Crist

Published in association with Foundation for Deep Ecology, San Francisco, CA.

Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation

Protecting the Wild

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented level of uncertainty and ambiguity within the education system. The pandemic has accelerated several challenging trends facing school leaders. Money to operate schools is more scarce. Creating a viable distance learning option for schools is now a high priority. School safety issues now must include basic knowledge of epidemiology. It makes you wonder, has school leadership become an exercise in just reacting to one crisis after another? School Leadership: Learner-Centered Leadership In Times Of Crisis offers a new way to lead a school system by becoming a learner-centered leader. The book tells the story of a superintendent working in a time of crisis. Through that story, school leaders learn how to transform their school, or school district, to become learner-centered. School Leadership: Learner-Centered Leadership in Times Of Crisis makes the case that there is still much a school leader can do to be proactive for their school. In this book, school leaders will learn how to: Focus on learners and become learner-centered leaders Create and articulate a vision of learning for their school community Develop a plan to become uncompromisingly learner-centered based on the tenets of The New Learning Ecosystem. Distilling his decades of experience in schools, Dr. Butler lays out an easy to understand framework for learner-centered leadership that any school leader can use in their school.

Learner-Centered Leadership In Times Of Crisis

School Leadership

An exploration of the Church s role of relating religious values and insights to public life, drawing on twenty years' contributions to Thought for the Day.

Tom Butler's Thoughts For The Day

Religion and Public Life

Tom Brokaw

Antonio Vizcaíno

A visual tribute to the work of environmentalists features lavish photography of U.S. parks, refuges, and nature preserves that have been established throughout the past century and is complemented by each featured site's back story.

The Great American Tradition

Wildlands Philanthropy

Is it time to embrace the so-called “Anthropocene”—the age of human dominion—and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully domesticated, an engineered global garden managed by technocrats to serve humanity? The schism between advocates of rewilding and those who accept and even celebrate a “post-wild” world is arguably the hottest intellectual battle in contemporary conservation. In Keeping the Wild, a group of prominent scientists, writers, and conservation activists responds to the Anthropocene-boosters who claim that wild nature is no more (or in any case not much worth caring about), that human-caused extinction is acceptable, and that “novel ecosystems” are an adequate replacement for natural landscapes. With rhetorical fists swinging, the book’s contributors argue that these “new environmentalists” embody the hubris of the managerial mindset and offer a conservation strategy that will fail to protect life in all its buzzing, blossoming diversity. With essays from Eileen Crist, David Ehrenfeld, Dave Foreman, Lisi Krall, Harvey Locke, Curt Meine, Kathleen Dean Moore, Michael Soulé, Terry Tempest Williams and other leading thinkers, Keeping the Wild provides an introduction to this important debate, a critique of the Anthropocene boosters’ attack on traditional conservation, and unapologetic advocacy for wild nature.

Tom Butler

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