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Conservation

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• Energy conservation
• Habitat -- Conservation
• American bison -- Conservation
• Apes -- Conservation
• Bats -- Conservation
• Birds -- Conservation
• Cowbirds -- Conservation
• Cranes (Birds) -- Conservation
• Electric power -- Conservation
• Fishes -- Conservation
• Mammals -- Conservation
• Metals -- Conservation
• Migratory animals -- Conservation
• Primates -- Conservation
• Sea birds -- Conservation
• Tropical crops -- Conservation
• Waterfowl -- Conservation
• Whales -- Conservation

• Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (electronic edition, c2009), by David J. C. MacKay (PDF and HTML with commentary at withouthotair.com)
• Soft-Tech (c1978), ed. by J. Baldwin and Stewart Brand (page images at wholeearth.info)

• The Efficient Use of Energy Resources (Cowles Foundation monograph #26; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979), by William D. Nordhaus (PDF at Yale)

• Energy Efficiency Technologies for Central and Eastern Europe (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Energy Efficiency Technologies for Central and Eastern Europe (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Energy Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities for Electric Utilities (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Cleaner Energy, Cooler Climate: Developing Sustainable Energy Solutions for South Africa (2009), by Harald Winkler (PDF with commentary at OpenUCT)

• Energy Efficiency in Federal Facilities: Update on Funding and Potential Savings (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Conservation and Solar Energy Programs of the Department of Energy: A Critique (1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Materials and Energy From Municipal Waste: Resource Recovery and Recycling From Municipal Solid Waste and Beverage Container Deposit Legislation (Washington: GPO, 1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• The Conservation of Fuel in the United States: An Outline for a Proposed Course of Lectures in Higher Educational Institutions, Prepared for the United States Fuel Administration, Washington, DC (New Haven: Wilson H. Lee Co., 1918), by L. P. Breckenridge (page images here at Penn)
• Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security (2004), by Amory B. Lovins, E. Kyle Datta, Odd-Even Bustnes, Jonathan G. Koomey, and Nathan J. Glasgow (PDF with commentary at oilendgame.com)

• Energy Technology Choices: Shaping Our Future (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Energy Efficiency in the Federal Government: Government by Good Example? (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Building Energy Efficiency (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Industrial Energy Efficiency (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Industrial Energy Use (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Regional Guidelines for Building Passive Energy Conserving Homes (Washington: Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1978), by AIA Research Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture: Principles and Examples with Reference to Hot Arid Climates, by Hassan Fathy, ed. by Walter Shearer and 'Abd al-Rahman Sultan (illustrated HTML at UNU)

• The Lighting Pattern Book for Homes (online edition, 2007), by Russell P. Leslie and Kathryn M. Conway (PDF files with commentary at RPI)

• Energy Efficiency in Federal Facilities: Update on Funding and Potential Savings (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Energy Efficiency of Buildings in Cities (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Energy Efficiency in Federal Facilities: Update on Funding and Potential Savings (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Energy Efficiency in Federal Facilities: Update on Funding and Potential Savings (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Greening IT: How a Greening IT Can Form a Solid Base for a Low-Carbon Society (c2009), ed. by Adrian T. Sobotta, Irene N. Sobotta, and John Gøtze
  • PDF with commentary at wfsf.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• State of the Apes: Infrastructure Development and Ape Conservation (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Helga Rainer, Alison White, and Annette Lanjouw (HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• State of the Apes: Infrastructure Development and Ape Conservation (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Helga Rainer, Alison White, and Annette Lanjouw (HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World (Cham et al.: Springer Open, c2016), ed. by Christian C. Voigt and Tigga Kingston (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Lost Tracks: Buffalo National Park, 1909-1939 (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), by Jennifer Brower (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• State of the Apes 2015: Industrial Agriculture and Ape Conservation (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015), ed. by Helga Rainer, Alison White, and Annette Lanjouw (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World (Cham et al.: Springer Open, c2016), ed. by Christian C. Voigt and Tigga Kingston (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

• The Cranes: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan (1996), ed. by Curt D. Meine and George W. Archibald (PDF with commentary at iucn.org)
• A Review of the Problem of Lead Poisoning in Waterfowl, by Glen C. Sanderson and Frank C. Bellrose
  • zipped HTML at Wayback Machine (some other links might not work)
  • HTML at eku.edu (zip file link may not work)
• A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bartleby

• The Scientific Bases for the Preservation of the Hawaiian Crow (1992), by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Bird-Lore (partial serial archives)

• Research and Management of the Brown-Headed Cowbird in Western Landscapes (1999), ed. by Michael L. Morrison, Linnea S. Hall, Scott K. Robinson, Stephen I. Rothstein, D. Caldwell Hahn, and Terrell D. Rich (PDF at unm.edu)

• Cranes: Their Biology, Husbandry, and Conservation (1996), ed. by David H. Ellis, George F. Gee, and Claire M. Mirande (page images at HathiTrust)

• Selling the Sea, Fishing for Power: A Study of Conflict Over Marine Tenure in Kei Islands, Eastern Indonesia (c2013), by Dedy S. Adhuri (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Upstream: Salmon and Society in the Pacific Northwest (1996), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Cooperative Game Fish Tagging Program Annual Newsletter, by Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.) (partial serial archives)

• Fishing for a Solution: Canada's Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977-2013 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2014), by Donald Barry, Bob Applebaum, and Earl Wiseman (PDF at University of Calgary)

• From Seascapes of Extinction to Seascapes of Confidence: Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries in Chile: El Quisco and Puerto Oscuro (2008), by Gloria L. Gallardo Fernández (HTML and PDF in Canada)

• Terrestrial Mammal Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions for Terrestrial Mammals Excluding Bats and Primates (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by Nick A. Littlewood, Ricardo Rocha, Rebecca K. Smith, Philip A. Martin, Sarah L. Lockhart, Rebecca F. Schoonover, Elspeth Wilman, Andrew J. Bladon, Katie A. Sainsbury, Stuart Pimm, and William J. Sutherland (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Non Human Primates of India (Dehra Dūn: Wildlife Institute of India, 2001), ed. by A. K. Gupta (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Biodiesel in India: Value Chain Organisation and Policy Options For Rural Development (2009), by Tilman Altenburg, Hildegard Dietz, Matthias Hahl, Nikos Nikolidakis, Christina Rosendahl, and Kathrin Seelige (PDF in Germany)

• Replacing Gasoline: Alternative Fuels for Light-Duty Vehicles (OTA-E-364; 1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ersatzstoffe aus dem Pflanzenreich: Ein Hilfsbuch zum Erkennen und Verwerten der Heinrischen Pflanzen für Zwecke der Ernährung und Industrie in Kriegs- und Friedenszeiten (in German; Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1918), ed. by Ludwig Diels (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mrs. Allen's Book of Meat Substitutes (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1918), by Ida Bailey Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Global Diversity of Taro: Ethnobotany and Conservation (Rome: Bioversity International, 2010), ed. by V. Ramanatha Rao, Peter J. Matthews, Pablo B. Eyzaguirre, and Danny Hunter (PDF with commentary at cgiar.org)

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