The Human Powered Home

Author : Tamara Dean
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781550923933

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The Human-Powered Home by Tamara Dean Pdf

A complete guide to modern pedaled-powered, treadled, and hand-cranked devices for the home. What if I could harness this energy? An unusual question for anyone putting in a long stint on a treadmill perhaps, and yet human power is a very old, practical and empowering alternative to fossil fuels. Replacing motors with muscles can be considered a political act -- an act of self-sufficiency that gains you independence. The Human-Powered Home is a one-of-a-kind compendium of human-powered devices gathered from a unique collection of experts. Enthusiasts point to the advantages of human power: Portable and available on-demand Close connection to the process or product offers more control Improved health and fitness The satisfaction of being able to make do with what is available This book discusses the science and history of human power and examines the common elements of human-powered devices. It offers plans for making specific devices, grouped by area of use, and features dozens of individuals who share technical details and photos of their inventions. For those who want to apply their own ingenuity, or for those who have never heard of human-powered machines, this book is a fine reference. For those who are beginning to understand the importance of a life of reduced dependency on fossil fuels, this book could be a catalyst for change.

Author : Trenton Moss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781336067

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Human Powered by Trenton Moss Pdf

Human Powered is a concise and accessible guide that will help you collaboratively solve problems, resolve conflict and inspire others.

Author : P.E. Gellings
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000355727

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Exploring the Value of Electricity by P.E. Gellings Pdf

This book discusses the role electricity plays in sustaining and improving the quality of life. The author elucidates the numerous approaches to estimating value, including electricity’s contribution toward the U.S. Gross Domestic Product; its role in medicine, and its ability to power communications. Traditional measures such the cost of outages, the impact of storms, the cost of restoring power systems after storms, the Value of Lost Load (VOLL), consumer Willingness to Pay (WTP) to avoid outages, and consumer surveys are covered extensively. In addition, the book speculates on life without electricity and how society may have evolved without it.

Author : Angèle H. Reinders,Jan Carel Diehl,Han Brezet
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118361153

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The Power of Design by Angèle H. Reinders,Jan Carel Diehl,Han Brezet Pdf

The Power of Design offers an introduction and a practical guide to product innovation, integrating the key topics that are necessary for the design of sustainable and energy-efficient products using sustainable energy technologies. Product innovation in sustainable energy technologies is an interdisciplinary field. In response to its growing importance and the need for an integrated view on the development of solutions, this text addresses the functional principles of various energy technologies next to the latest design processes and innovation methods. From the perspective of product applications, the book provides clear explanations of technologies that are significant for product integration, such as batteries, photovoltaic solar energy, fuel cells, small wind turbines, human power, energy saving lighting, thermal energy technologies in buildings, and piezoelectric energy conversions. The design processes and innovation methods presented in this book include various approaches ranging from technical, societal and creative methods that can be applied in different stages of the design process. Other features include: a methodological approach, enabling readers to easily apply the theory to their research projects and to the actual design of sustainable products with energy technologies discussion on interaction design and smart grid interventions colour photographs that illustrate the final products numerous case studies of product development projects and concepts in practice, enabling readers to understand and design energy-efficient products in several different markets a companion website containing useful information about the cases and an additional design cases with sustainable energy technologies The Power of Design provides a comprehensive and visually-appealing opening into the subject for third and fourth year students, postgraduates, and professionals in the areas of energy, environment, product design and engineering

Author : Alistair Paul Becker,Alistair Cockburn
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132702492

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Crystal Clear by Alistair Paul Becker,Alistair Cockburn Pdf

Carefully researched over ten years and eagerly anticipated by the agile community, Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams is a lucid and practical introduction to running a successful agile project in your organization. Each chapter illuminates a different important aspect of orchestrating agile projects. Highlights include Attention to the essential human and communication aspects of successful projects Case studies, examples, principles, strategies, techniques, and guiding properties Samples of work products from real-world projects instead of blank templates and toy problems Top strategies used by software teams that excel in delivering quality code in a timely fashion Detailed introduction to emerging best-practice techniques, such as Blitz Planning, Project 360o, and the essential Reflection Workshop Question-and-answer with the author about how he arrived at these recommendations, including where they fit with CMMI, ISO, RUP, XP, and other methodologies A detailed case study, including an ISO auditor's analysis of the project Perhaps the most important contribution this book offers is the Seven Properties of Successful Projects. The author has studied successful agile projects and identified common traits they share. These properties lead your project to success; conversely, their absence endangers your project.

Author : Richard Heinberg
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781771423571

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Power by Richard Heinberg Pdf

Impeccably researched and masterfully written, this book explains how and why humanity is driving itself off the cliff. — Dahr Jamail, author, The End of Ice Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources ― most significantly, fossil fuels. It asks whether we have, at this point, overpowered natural and social systems, and if we have, what we can do about it. Has Homo sapiens — one species among millions — become powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth's climate? Why have we developed so many ways of oppressing one another? Can we change our relationship with power to avert ecological catastrophe, reduce social inequality, and stave off collapse? These questions — and their answers — will determine our fate.

Author : Vengalattore T. Nagaraj,Inderjit Chopra,Darryll John Pines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : 1624106218

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Gamera by Vengalattore T. Nagaraj,Inderjit Chopra,Darryll John Pines Pdf

"This book is an engineering history of the Gamera Human Powered Helicopter, which was creatively designed, skillfully built, and courageously flown by the students of the University of Maryland"--

Author : Thomas Risse,Stephen C. Ropp,Kathryn Sikkink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521658829

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The Power of Human Rights by Thomas Risse,Stephen C. Ropp,Kathryn Sikkink Pdf

In Tunisia and Morocco.

Author : Jason Lewis
Publisher : BillyFish Books LLC
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780984915538

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Dark Waters (the Expedition Trilogy, Book 1) by Jason Lewis Pdf

“This is a delightful and funny adventure ... It is also lonely, dangerous and frightening.”—THE LONDON TIMES He survived a terrifying crocodile attack off Australia’s Queensland coast, blood poisoning in the middle of the Pacific, malaria in Indonesia and China, and acute mountain sickness in the Himalayas. He was hit by a car and left for dead with two broken legs in Colorado, and incarcerated for espionage on the Sudan-Egypt border. The first in a thrilling adventure trilogy, Dark Waters charts one of the longest, most gruelling, yet uplifting and at times irreverently funny journeys in history, circling the world using just the power of the human body, hailed by the London Sunday Times as “The last great first for circumnavigation.” But it was more than just a physical challenge. Prompted by what scientists have dubbed the “perfect storm” as the global population soars to 8.3 billion by 2030, adventurer Jason Lewis used The Expedition to reach out to thousands of schoolchildren, calling attention to our interconnectedness and shared responsibility of an inhabitable Earth for future generations. * * WINNER of the BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD & ERIC HOFFER AWARD * * “Often funny and irreverent, always frank and authentic, Lewis’s first volume of The Expedition series is also marked by the thrills of a first-rate adventure.”—FOREWORD REVIEWS “Skating through Alabama with long hair, duct tape on the nipples, and women’s culottes … What were you thinking?”—JAY LENO, The Tonight Show “A riveting true-life adventure as inspiring as it is thrilling.”—UTNE READER “An extraordinary expedition on an epic scale.”—BEN FOGLE, television presenter and adventurer “Last great first for circumnavigation.”—THE SUNDAY TIMES “Truly a tale for our time. You really smell, taste and breathe this journey in a way that is only possible by travelling more slowly.”—ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

Author : David Brunn Perry
Publisher : Thunder's Mouth Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1568580274

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Bike Cult by David Brunn Perry Pdf

Guide to bikes and cycling in sport, culture, history and leisure.

Author : Shalanda Baker
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642830675

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Revolutionary Power by Shalanda Baker Pdf

In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that followed vividly shows how the new climate reality intersects with race and access to energy. The island is home to brown and black US citizens who lack the political power of those living in the continental US. As the world continues to warm and storms like Maria become more commonplace, it is critical that we rethink our current energy system to enable reliable, locally produced, and locally controlled energy without replicating the current structures of power and control. In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new energy system in order to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system. Revolutionary Power is a playbook for the energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. Baker tells the stories of those who have been left behind in our current system and those who are working to be architects of a more just system. She draws from her experience as an energy-justice advocate, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color to inspire activists working to build our new energy system. Climate change will force us to rethink the way we generate and distribute energy and regulate the system. But how much are we willing to change the system? This unique moment in history provides an unprecedented opening for a deeper transformation of the energy system, and thus, an opportunity to transform society. Revolutionary Power shows us how.

Author : R K Shankar
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781645872542

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The Art of Managing Human Power by R K Shankar Pdf

Human Power is exponential and immeasurable. Effective utilization of the same is a great art indeed and involves lots of techniques. Handling the power within us and with others is not as easy as handling other resources (land, capital & entrepreneurship). No wonder, human resource functions have assumed greater significance in every organization in recent times. If a failure occurs in any of the aforesaid 3 resources, the root-cause for such failure is the human resources and that is why they are called live-wire. There has been a total paradigm shift in organizations’ perspective –the amount spent on people towards training which was hitherto considered as an expense is now being viewed as an investment on Human Capital. That is how the emergence of Human Resource Department has taken place who acts as a link & fulcrum to all other activities in any business enterprise. The sole objective of this book The Art of Managing Human Power is to develop every individual as a productive Human Capital. Hopefully this would not only meet the requirement of every manager in an organization and all students of business schools but also would prove to be a simple guide for people management.

Author : James C. McCullagh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002048562

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Pedal Power in Work, Leisure, and Transportation by James C. McCullagh Pdf

Author : Thomas Risse,Thomas Risse-Kappen,Steve C. Ropp,Stephen C. Ropp,Kathryn Sikkink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107028937

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The Persistent Power of Human Rights by Thomas Risse,Thomas Risse-Kappen,Steve C. Ropp,Stephen C. Ropp,Kathryn Sikkink Pdf

This book offers a unique combination of quantitative and qualitative research arguing for the persistent power of human rights norms.

Author : J. Drew Lanham
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781571318756

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The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham Pdf

“A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today. “When you’re done with The Home Place, it won’t be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.”—Star Tribune “A lyrical story about the power of the wild…synthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.”—National Geographic