Environmental Factoid of the Moment:
Escalators are such commonplace conveniences that riders rarely give them a second thought.  The forward-thinking folks over at Next American City, though, know what we've been overlooking:  They're totally insane, energy-siphoning dinosaurs.  There are 30,000 escalators in the United States and, collectively, the innocuous-looking machines drink up enough energy to power 375,000 homes - or the city of Dayton, Ohio, and its suburbs, if you prefer.  Perpetual motion is part of the madness; escalators chug along even when they're not carrying passengers, which is most of the time.  But the bulky metal steps (and the energy required to move them) are where sanity took the stairs.  There's interest in lighter plastic steps, but escalators "ultimately represent an outmoded method of transporting masses of people."  (One study found that a 170-pound passenger ascended a 30-step escalator increases the energy cost of running that machine by a mere one-thousandth of a cent.)  There's just no reason to blow all that energy when stairs - and an elevator for people who are elderly or disabled - would take care of our people-moving needs.

The issue surrounding Environmental Issues even more so than other departments/disciplines is that it covers a multitude of subjects that cross many subject lines.  As such, a comprehensive, all-inclusive listing of Blackwell Library-owned books on this diverse subject is almost impossible to create. 

Working from a list of keywords and searching the Blackwell Library Book Catalog is a far better way to see what our current holdings on this diverse array of subjects actually is.

AGRICOLA (science & agriculture)

America History & Life

BioOne

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

COMAR Online (Code of Maryland Regulations)

Environmental Health Perspectives

GeoBase (Geology, Geography, & Biology)

Health Source:  Nursing/Academic Edition

JSTOR - collections for Arts & Sciences I, II, III, Business and Botany and Ecology

MEDLINE - - provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing,
        dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, etc.

  Newspapers (National) <-- Cross search of all five newspapers:      

          Baltimore Sun (1990 - current)

          Christian Science Monitor (1988 - current)

New York Times (1980 - current)
          Wall Street Journal (1984 - current)
          Washington Post (1987 - current)

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