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Electric railroads -- Environmental aspects

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• Electric railroads
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• Vibration Level Data: Brighton-New York City Transit Authority (final report prepared for the US Dept. of Transportation, UMTA-MA-0099-81-2; 1981), by Edward J. Rickley and Norman E. Rice (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Benson Bidwell, Inventor of the Trolley Car, Electric Fan and Cold Motor: History of Early Struggles and Later Successes; With Personal Reminiscences, Lectures, Essays and Letters (Chicago: Henneberry Press, 1907), by Benson Bidwell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fires in Mass Transit Vehicles: Report of the Committee on Toxicity Hazards of Materials Used in Transit Vehicles, by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• From Slavery to Civil Rights: On the Streetcars of New Orleans 1830s-Present (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2020), by Hilary McLaughlin-Stonham (PDF at OAPEN)

• Specifications for Electric Locomotives Proposed for New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (1905), by General Electric Company, contrib. by New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)

• Vibration Level Data: Brighton-New York City Transit Authority (final report prepared for the US Dept. of Transportation, UMTA-MA-0099-81-2; 1981), by Edward J. Rickley and Norman E. Rice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Along the Right-of-Way to Burlington, by Charles H. Damaske (page images at Wisconsin)

• Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge (c1999), by Lester R. Brown, Gary T. Gardner, and Brian Halweil (PDF with commentary at worldwatch.org)

• Ecologically Based Pest Management: New Solutions for a New Century (1996), by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• 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)
• Agriculture, Trade, and Environment: Achieving Complementary Policies (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), ed. by E. Turpin (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• Arsenic, by Assembly of Life Sciences (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Asbestiform Fibers: Nonoccupational Health Risks, by National Research Council Committee on Nonoccupational Health Risks of Asbestiform Fibers (page images with commentary at NAP)

• IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2005), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files at ipcc.ch)
• Implications of Rising Carbon Dioxide Content of the Atmosphere: A Statement of Trends and Implications of Carbon Dioxide Research Reviewed at a Conference of Scientists (New York: Conservation Foundation, ca. 1963), by Conservation Foundation, contrib. by Noel D. Eichhorn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toxicological and Performance Aspects of Oxygenated Motor Vehicle Fuels (1996), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Our Car as Power Plant (Amsterdam: IOS Press, c2014), by Ad van Wijk and Leendert Verhoef (PDF at thegreenvillage.org)

• New Developments in Biotechnology: Field-Testing Engineered Organisms, Genetic and Ecological Issues (OTA-BA-350; 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • 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

• Assessment of Technologies for Determining Cancer Risks From the Environment (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Green Carbon: The Role of Natural Forests in Carbon Storage, Part 1: A Green Carbon Account of Australia's South-Eastern Eucalypt Forests, and Policy Implications (2008), by Brendan G. Mackey, Heather Keith, Sandra L. Berry, and David Lindenmayer (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power (2006), by Larry Lohmann, ed. by Niclas Hallstrom, Olle Nordberg, and Robert Osterbergh (PDF at The Corner House)

• The Carbon Neutral Myth: Offset Indulgences for Your Climate Sins (Amsterdam: Carbon Trade Watch, 2007), by Kevin Smith (PDF at carbontradewatch.org)

• Welcome to the Green Village (Amsterdam: IOS Press, c2013), by Ad van Wijk (PDF at thegreenvillage.org)
• Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Environmental Issues of Synthetic Transportation Fuels From Coal (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Review of the Draft Federal Long-Term Monitoring Plan for the Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam (1994), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Chelsea Miya, Oliver Rossier, and Geoffrey Rockwell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The North, the South, and the Environment: Ecological Constraints and the Global Economy, ed. by V. Bhaskar and Andrew Glyn (HTML at UNU Press)

• Toxicological Profile for 1,4-Dichlorobenzene (updated version; 1998), by Research Triangle Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toxicological Profile for 1,2-Dichloroethene (updated version; 1996), by Research Triangle Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), ed. by Bhaskar Vira, Christoph Wildburger, and Stephanie Mansourian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Six Arguments for a Greener Diet: How a More Plant-Based Diet Could Save Your Health and the Environment (Washington, DC: Center for Science in the Public Interest, c2006), by Michael F. Jacobson (PDF files at cspinet.org)

• The Anthrobscene (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2014), by Jussi Parikka (multiple formats with commentary at umn.edu)

• The Anthrobscene (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2014), by Jussi Parikka (multiple formats with commentary at umn.edu)

• An Evaluation of the U.S. Navy's Extremely Low Frequency Communications System Ecological Monitoring Program (1997), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Greenprint: A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change (Washington: Center for Global Development, c2013), by Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian (PDF at cgdev.org)
• The Role of the Environment in Poverty Alleviation (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by Paolo Galizzi and Alena Herklotz (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development (London: Ubiquity Press, c2015), ed. by J. K. Waage and Christopher Yap (multiple formats at Ubiquity Press)
• The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind (New York: Universe Books, 1972), by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William Behrens (multiple formats with commentary at donellameadows.org)
• Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future (Washington: World Bank, 2015), by Marianne Fay, Stephane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Julie Rozenberg, Ulf Narloch, and Tom Kerr (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (c2009), by Lester R. Brown (HTML and PDF with commentary at earth-policy.org)
• Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (2008), by Lester R. Brown (HTML and PDF with commentary at earth-policy.org)
• Industrial Metabolism: Restructuring for Sustainable Development, ed. by Robert U. Ayres and Udo E. Simonis (illustrated HTML at UNU Press)
• Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by Peter Redfield (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The North, the South, and the Environment: Ecological Constraints and the Global Economy, ed. by V. Bhaskar and Andrew Glyn (HTML at UNU Press)

• Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World (2008), by Michael Renner, Sean Sweeney, and Jill Kubit (PDF with commentary at unep.org)

• Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (electronic edition, c2009), by David J. C. MacKay (PDF and HTML with commentary at withouthotair.com)

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