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(0)John Perlin
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Fully revised and expanded.
Language
English
Description
"Unprecedented gas prices, heat waves and droughts, climate change, Solyndra--all make 'alternative' sources of energy contemporary areas of activism, controversy, lobbying, and legislation. Yet few know that the ancient Chinese, Greeks, and Romans used solar energy in their architecture; that Galileo and da Vinci both planned uses for the power of the sun; and that by 1918, there were more than 4,000 solar water heaters in California. The history...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Third revised edition.
Language
English
Description
A Foundational Conservation Story Revived
Ancient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poet Ovid wrote that before civilization began, "even the pine tree stood on its own very hills" but when civilization took over, "the mountain oak, the pine were felled."
This happened for a simple reason: trees have been the principal fuel and building material of every society over the millennia, from...
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