Stories
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The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
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Seeds for the future
Indigenous groups have a key role as guardians of biodiversity, and their knowledge could help us all preserve our world. To survive, we all need to collaborate, reject prejudice, and share what we know.
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Dying to be in nature
The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
Catalogue
- Books
NSCA reference book / [compiled and edited by Jane Dunmore with the assistance of Maggie Allen and Sally Johnson].
Date: 1978- Archives and manuscripts
Two annotated interleaved publications by Cornelius Benjamin Fox: Sanitary examinations of water, air and food. A Handbook for the Medical Officer of Health (1878) and Sanitary examinations of water, air and food. A vade-mecum for the Medical Officer of Health (1886)
Fox, Cornelius Benjamin (1839-1922), MD Edin, MRCS, LSA, FRCP (1880)Date: 1878-1886Reference: MSS.8561-8562