Introduction to Energy and Climate: Developing a Sustainable Environment

Kerr, Julie

Environmental & Natural Resources Law

CRC-Press

For all those interested in learning more about green living—whether they are looking to live completely sustainable lives or just want to add a bit more ecological awareness to their daily routine—this fun and informative guide offers an introduction to the principles of sustainable living as well as practical next steps. Readers will learn about the many good reasons to “go green,” including how it can benefit their personal health, the exciting job opportunities it provides, and the government tax breaks and rebates that are available. The book also discusses sources of renewable energy and the green technology that is available now and that that is being developed. This reference describes how to be energy wise and financially smart and how people can make their homes, their offices, and their children’s school greener.

The Smart Guide to Green Living (Smart Guides)

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Smart Guide Publications, Inc.

Geocache

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

America Star Books

The purpose of this textbook is to provide a well-rounded working knowledge of both climate change and environmental sustainability for a wide range of students. Students will learn core concepts and methods to analyze energy and environmental impacts; will understand what is changing the earth’s climate, and what that means for life on earth now and in the future. They will also have a firm understanding of what energy is and how it can be used. This text intends to develop working knowledge of these topics, with both technical and social implications. Students will find in one volume the integration and careful treatment of climate, energy, and sustainability.

The Cistercians (White Monks) were the most successful monastic experiment to emerge from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. By around 1150 they had established houses the length and breadth of Western Christendom and were internationally renowned. They sought to return to a simple form of monastic life, as set down in the Rule of St Benedict, and preferred rural locations ""far from the haunts of men"".But, as recent research has shown, they were by no means isolated from society but influenced, and were influenced by, the world around them; they moved with the times. This book seeks to explore the phenomenon that was the Cistercian Order, drawing on recent research from various disciplines to consider what it was that made the Cistercians distinctive and how they responded to developments. The book addresses current debates regarding the origins and evolution of the Order; discusses the key primary sources for knowledge; and covers architecture, administration, daily life, spirituality, the economy and the monks' ties with the world.

The Cistercians in the Middle Ages (Monastic Orders, 4)

History

Burton, Professor Janet

Europe

Boydell Press

The Cistercians (White Monks) were the most successful monastic experiment to emerge from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. By around 1150 they had established houses the length and breadth of Western Christendom and were internationally renowned. They sought to return to a simple form of monastic life, as set down in the Rule of St Benedict, and preferred rural locations "far from the haunts of men". But, as recent research has shown, they were by no means isolated from society but influenced, and were influenced by, the world around them; they moved with the times. This book seeks to explore the phenomenon that was the Cistercian Order, drawing on recent research from various disciplines to consider what it was that made the Cistercians distinctive and how they responded to developments. The book addresses current debates regarding the origins and evolution of the Order; discusses the key primary sources for knowledge; and covers architecture, administration, daily life, spirituality, the economy and the monks' ties with the world. Professor Janet Burton teaches at the School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David; Dr Julie Kerr is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History, University of St Andrews.

The Cistercians in the Middle Ages (Monastic Orders, 4) (Volume 4)

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Life in the Medieval Cloister makes extensive use of primary sources and quotations from chronicles, letters, customaries and miracle stories, and the experience of medieval monastic life is presented through the monks' own words. Medievalist Julie Kerr provides day to day account of life in the medieval monastery from the Norman conquest to the Dissolution, with a particular focus on the high Middle ages, exploring such questions as: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> • What effect did the ascetic lifestyle have on the monks' physical health and mental well-being? 
 • How difficult was it for newcomers to adapt to the rigors of the cloister? 
 • Did the monks suffer from anxiety and boredom; what caused them concern and how did they seek comfort? 
 • What did it really mean to live the solitary life within a communal environment and how significant were issues of loneliness and isolation? 
 Life in the Medieval Cloister makes an important contribution to our understanding of medieval monastic life by exploring key aspects that have been either inadequately addressed or overlooked by historians, but also offers an up close and personal perspective on a fascinating, but little known, corner of history. 
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Life in the Medieval Cloister

Bloomsbury Academic

The small Cistercian abbey at Balmerino on the southern shore of the Firth of Tay in north Fife has long languished in relative obscurity, consigned to a supporting role in Scottish monastic studies with dismissive comments based on the fragmentary nature of its physical and documentary history. Current research has demonstrated how wrong this interpretation is, for a monastery is not just the cluster of buildings enclosed within the monastic precinct; it is also the community - religious and lay - who inhabited it, the complex of lands, rights and privileges assembled to sustain that community, and the interaction with notables and neighbours whose influence helped shape its history. These chapters present a diametrically opposed view of the significance of the surviving record and its value as a source of evidence for the social, economic and environmental history of Balmerino Abbey specifically and the wider region more generally. The papers are: Introduction to Current Research, Richard Oram; Queen Ermengarde and the Abbey of St Edward, Balmerino, Matthew Hammond; Cistercians on the East Coast of Fife, Julie Kerr; A Fit and Ample Endowment? The Balmerino Estate 1228-1603, Richard Oram; The Architecture, Richard Fawcett; Reading the Place-names of a Monastic landscape, Gilbert Markus; Resurvey of the Abbey and Topographic Analysis, Piers Dixon. This collection of papers on Balmerino Abbey is published as an issue of Citeaux Commentarii Cistercienses.

Life on the Edge: the Cistercian Abbey of Balmerino, Fife (Scotland) (Citeaux - Commentarii Cistercienses)

Oram, Richard

Fawcett, Richard

Hammond, M.

Hammond, Matthew

Citeaux

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