Climate Considerations in Building and Urban Design
 A climate-responsive buildings "Great Work" ... ..that will complement Givoni's Passive Low Energy Cooling of Buildings; the MIT Solar Heat Technologies Series; Brown and DeKay's Sun, Wind & Light; Hyde and Woods' Climate Responsive Design; ... [... more]
CDN$143.99
Amazon CA |
Nic Rivers
Written by Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard and Nic Rivers Fixing Canada's Climate Change Catastrophe Format: Hardcover, 196 pages On Sale: September 18, 2007 [... more]
Random House |
Terroir: The Role of Geology, Climate, and Culture in ...
Misadvertised "Terroir" by Wilson is a very good book, indeed. Johnson, however, has very little to do with it; he just wrote the foreword, which he does to so many books. Wilson's book is comparable to the older "The Wines and Winelands ... [... more]
CDN$48.72
Amazon CA |
Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change
Take the heat off the planet No one denies that global warming is a reality; almost no one denies that a huge contributor to global warming is the indiscriminate use of fossil fuels and the depletion of natural carbon sinks through deforestation. Even ... [... more]
CDN$27.95
Amazon CA |
Ocean Circulation and Climate: Observing and Modelling ...
the most complete book on climate and ocean circulation Being the manager of an EAS office in France (bureau d'étude d'impact sur l'environnement), the book represent a great help for my work. Despite the price, all the datas are useful. From deep ... [... more]
CDN$125.48
Amazon CA |
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & the Fate ...
Fire, or Ice, or ...? The Revenge of Gaia is an important book. Though perhaps bleaker than necessary. What Lovelock downplays is the fact that in the last million years whenever the temperature and carbon dioxide/methane levels started to rise out of ... [... more]
CDN$19.50
Amazon CA |
High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis
Withdrawal symptoms Although many studies of climate change and its impact have been published, few count the human cost. Mark Lynas makes up for that oversight in this vividly presented account. As a journalist, he's unconstrained by the limitations of ... [... more]
CDN$20.00
Amazon CA |
Fruit Tree Pruning, Introduction
When I talk about fruit trees, I mean the ones which grow in Manitoba, and those are all members of the rose family. I know nothing about any other type of fruit tree because I have never gardened in a climate where they can be grown outdoors. ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Comfort in Any Climate
Skip This One This book talks about insulation, space, and mass and the need to "tune" a house to benefit from free heat/cooling. HOWEVER, it never mentions a single tuning formula. Unless you plan on building many homes to "tune" ... [... more]
CDN$30.95
Amazon CA |
Himalayan Plants
Chapters 3 through 5 each talks about the plants growing in a specific climate zone. The temperate zone, covered in Chapter 3, is found between 6000 and 8000 feet above sea level. Plants from this range are used to growing in cool conditions even ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Love That Lavender!
For starters, true lavender (Lavendula angustifolia) is native to the Southern Alps where the soil is chalky and the climate is hot and dry. Not exactly suited to field crop culture, in other words, so eventually more amenable hybrids were ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Overwintering Your Aquatic Plants
Tropical aquatic plants will not survive in our climate if left outdoors over the winter. There are two options: replace them in the spring or take them indoors. Parrot feather (Myriophyllum Proseysinacoides) is not ... [... more]
University of Saskatchewan |
