Intrinsic Bioremediation (Bioremediation, 3(1))

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The number-one environmental threat to public health, air pollution remains a pressing problem-made even more complicated by the massive quantity and diversity of air pollution sources. Biofiltration technology (using micro-organisms growing on porous media) is being recognized as one of the most advantageous means to convert pollutants to harmless products. Done properly, biofiltration works at a reasonable cost-utilizing inexpensive components, without requiring fuel or generating hazardous by-products. Firmly established in Europe, biofiltration techniques are being increasingly applied in North America: Biofiltration for Air Pollution Control offers the necessary knowledge to "do it right."

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"Bible of Biofiltration"...........2001-04-21

Is how we refer to this book also. It covers all of the basics, gives tons (tonne?) of useful info in an organized manner with many useful references to get someone started in almost any aspect of biofiltration. well done.

Biofilter Bible.......2000-05-13

This book has been nicknamed the "Bible of Biofiltration" with due cause. It is an excellent resource for the novice and experienced alike. It is written by three well-respected and experienced leaders in the biofilter field. It contains an excellent review of the fundamental science and the practical design as well as giving numerous examples of applications throughout the world. It is "a must have" for anyone who is in need of an reference book on biofiltration.

Heavy Metals in the Environment: Using Wetlands for Their Removal

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ASIN: 1566704014

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Much of the convenience of modern life resides in sheet metal, the cowling shield of most machines and appliances. However, the load that this takes off human shoulders has to be carried elsewhere, and the Earth has borne the burden. Many of us woke up to the environmental cost when over a century of industrialization finally surpassed the capacity of nature to assimilate it. International in scope, Heavy Metals in the Environment: Using Wetlands for Their Removal discusses wetland functions and heavy metal contamination. It addresses such questions as: Can systems powered by sunlight handle toxins more effectively than systems running on fossil fuel? At what scale and by what means do we define efficiency? These questions resonate increasingly with a number of global challenges. As inescapable as climate change, you can no longer avoid airborne toxins, acid rain, and polluted water by moving away from them. When the time comes to rely less on fossil fuel-based technology, how will we clean up the aftermath of toxic misadventures? Written by a leader in the growing field of ecological engineering, Heavy Metals in the Environment: Using Wetlands for Their Removal presents scientific studies that illustrate how natural systems use wetlands to adapt to changes in the ecosystem. It focuses primarily on lead, one of the first materials used by developing civilizations and a metal used heavily in the industrial era. The goal: to achieve a better understanding of how natural systems use wetlands to adapt to wastes.

Environmental Bioremediation Technologies

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ASIN: 3540347909

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The rapid expansion and increasing sophistication of various industries in the past century has remarkably increased the amount and complexity of toxic waste effluents, which may be bioremediated by suitable plants & microbes, either natural occurring or tailor-made for the specific purpose. This technology is termed as bioremediation.

Bioremediation is an eco- friendly, cost-effective and natural technology targeted to remove heavy metals, radionuclides, xenobiotic compounds, organic waste, pesticides etc. from contaminated sites or industrial discharges through biological means. Since this technology is used in in-situ conditions, it does not physically disturb the site unlike conventional methods i.e. chemical or mechanical methods.

In this technology, higher plants or microbes are used alone or in combination for phytoextraction of heavy metals from metal contaminated sites. Through microbial interventions, either the metals are immobilized or mobilized through redox conversions at contaminated sites. If mobilized, metal accumulating plants are put in place to accumulate metals in their body. Thenafter, metal-loaded plants are harvested and incernated to reduce the volume of waste and then disposed off as hazardous materials or used for recovery of precious metals, if possible. In case of immobilization, metals are no longer available to be toxic to organisms.

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Mycoremediation: Fungal Bioremediation
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IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT So kick back, grab a beer, fire up the grill, hunker down, and enjoy the ride. Eighteen of Sci-fi and Horror's most inventive and -- dare we say demented -- minds have come together to compose a vision of the future which will scare the “bejesus” out of most “normal” folk. “Listen up! The world as we know it is going to end, just as you thought -- only not for the reasons you predicted. It's not the meek who're going to inherit the earth, or the rich, or the famous, or the well-prepared. No, the folks who survive the end of civilization are those who never needed it much anyway and for reasons... well, you're not likely to guess why, but I promise you, once you've read Bubbas of the Apocalypse, you're going to have a whole new perspective on the real mainstays of South'm cuisine: Twinkies, Spam, and rot-gut red sauce.

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Hilarious!.......2003-09-24

In the year 2025, a deadly air born virus known as Yuppie 25 escaped from a secret government lab. It was believed to have been on a scrap of toilet paper stuck to the bottom of a scientist's shoe as he left work. Yuppie 25 spread around the world at lightning speed. Riots broke out as all the leaders in the world died out. No country had leadership or laws any longer. The Yuppie madness sent people into rages, murder went unchecked.

One scientist noticed that certain people of a certain class and life style seemed to be completely immune to the bug. Tests showed that they had an unusual enzyme in their blood that was traced to a cheap preservative used in generic barbecue sauce which apparently mutated when it was grilled. The people who had consumed large amounts of the barbecue sauce on grilled meats over their life times had built up a natural immunity to Yuppie 25. Within a few months most of the population of the earth was dead. Only Bubbas and their families survived untouched. All others were zombies.

Bubbas had become the last hope for humanity!

***** Twenty stories and poems, including the Forward, grace this over-sized, paperback anthology. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Red Neck jokes, and some pretty hilarious (if not warped) humor has been duct-taped together into stories for your enjoyment - by various authors whose sanity can not be guaranteed. I loved every bizarre tale! *****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch.

One story by Rob Gates ruins the book..........2003-09-16

What could have been an okay anthology, turned down right horrible with the story by Rob Gates. Did this author pay to have his story in this book? Or perhaps someone did it as a favor? Either way, that paticular story lacked not only basic writing skill and creativity, but feeling. It was hum drum line after hum drum line going in no particular direction. While other stories in this book try to make up for it, all in all this is too much money to spend for such an amareturish work.

Revenge of the Bubbas.......2003-06-18

The year is 2025 and a Government Plage is let loose that kills Yuppies, well some turn into human flesh eating Zombies. They continue their lives driving their BMW's and of course having Yuppie dinner parties. They are now called Yombies.

The Bubbas aren't infected and it's because of their preference for pork rinds, twinkies, spam, cheap Bar-b-Q sauce with meat cooked outdoors and of course cheap beer. No fancy foreign beer or cheese for these guys and gals just the real stuff.

Hillarious moments and some that are just downright funny if y'all have any bubba bones in your body. A few that have a higher gross factor.

To have taken on the task of outlining the basics of the story and then hand it out to various author to put their own twisted Bubba minds to work. Selina Rosen should be give a big hand, Yombie of course.

Better Buy More Barbeque.......2001-09-19

You cannot read this book without laughing. The world has come to an end, and the only folks left to look after it are not necessarily the folks who care. Meet Bubbas with an itch to plug aliens. Zombies with a taste for human flesh. A wild and crazy riot of a time.
Definately a cult classic of a collection.

The End of the World as They-all Know It.......2001-08-24

Actually, there should be a four and a half star rating available. The poem didn't work for me and one or two stories just missed being gems. The reader needs to be warned that the humor in this book is not tea-sippin'-dainty-pinky-in-the-air smile but gut laughs about bodily functions and outrageous points of view. The basic premise of the collection is that a plague virus, Yuppie 25, has killed or made zombies of everyone except Bubbas (who were immune because of their frequent ingestion of a generic barbeque sauce). More fun than an SUV full of yuppie zombies.

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A VERY funny book!
What's not to like?
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It's the End of the World... Again That's right grab yer BBQ sauce, hunker down, and enjoy the latest in the Bubbas of the Apocalypse universe. Let's face it, when good ole boys and gals are left to their own vices... er I mean devices to fight the Yumbie horde in the time after the great Yuppie 25 Plague, certain niceties, rules of conduct, and laws are going to be tossed aside. Folks will bathe and brush their teeth when and if they feel like it. No one's going to care if someone's sleeping with their cousin, and your stupid friend Ned is going to own the keys to the world.

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A VERY funny book!.......2005-02-18

Ok, this is yet another author of one of the stories in this anthology. But before you think I'm being biased, several of the stories in the Bubbas books have won awards, including mine. So, either we're very funny or someone shares our outrageously bad tastes.

Seriously, these stories will have you laughing until your sides hurt and tears roll from your eyes. They're nothing but fun. If you don't find this book funny, you truly have lost your sense of humor.

The premise is that the Bubbas of the world have survived the apocalypse. The rest of the "normal" people have died, been turned into zombies that are yuppie zombies (Yumbies), or have been killed and eaten by Yumbies. Like the four horsemen of the apocalypse, the four bubbas of the apocalypse wreak their terror on all, especially the Yumbies.

Does this sound fun? Well it is. Even if I didn't have a story in it, I'd recommend it.

What's not to like?.......2004-08-05

If you don't like this book you have no sense of humor, whatsoever. This book is completely outrageous and an unashamed good time.

Go with it and have fun!

Ned Helped Write This Review.......2004-01-14

To be completely upfront about it, I have a story in this collection. Any writer worth his keyboard is going to tell you that his is the best story in the collection. I can't honestly say that -- the quality of the stories is remarkably high. Even more amazing is that there isn't a single total dog in the whole collection, an event rarer than a solar eclipse.
This is not for those who sip their tea with dainty pinky extended, this is for somebody who finds humor in someone putting away a six-pack and belching the first stanza of a country-western song.

I was afraid, with the guidelines, that the stories might seem redundant, and several elements were used more than once -- the lethality of stomach gas and halitosis, for instance -- but the treatments were different enough that I didn't get the feeling "here we go again."

There were so many bizarre and inventive stories that to choose one is difficult, but perhaps the story of the really lonely guy who built himself a woman out of Spam was one of the best, and pretty illustrative of the sort of outrageous humor that makes this book a pleasure to read. Some shyer types may want to take the cover off John Grisham novel to hide the fact that they're not among the brain-washed, but for the rest of us, the cover was part of the fun.

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Bubba gets his hand out of his pants and reaches for the stars Most of civilization in ruins, Yumbies (yuppie zombies) running around chomping on the brains of Bubba kind, oh what s a red-blooded, NASCAR-watching, tobacco-chewing American to do? Well... ain t no guards on NASA secret government lavatories, and all sorts of scientific thingy-ma-bobs, so it s time for Bubbas to spread their wings, reach for the stars, and tinker with things... well, that they probably shouldn t be f@#$%^g around with. Bubbas in space, with time machines, dealing with aliens, building robots to save them from Yumbies... Why this here might jus be the funniest @#$% Bubbas of the Apocalypse book yet.

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Bubbas In Space.......2007-08-25

Yard Dog Press seems to have hit publishing gold with the Bubbas of the Apocalypse series, of which this is the latest offering. Imagine a world inhabited by Bubbas and Yumbies (yuppie zombies) and reaching out to space. Too horrible to contemplate? Maybe, but worth a lot of laughs.

As Maggie Bonham has said, the titles alone are almost worth the price of the book. And I'll brag on Maggie's story, because she's too well-mannered to brag on it. Damned fine story. I found a lot of high-quality stories in the collect and, again, no real dogs, something I rarely find outside of a Yard Dog collection. I'd like to give special mention to Bill Allen's "The Planet of the Hill-Apes," Selina Rosen's closer, and a bunch more. I know this is the beginning of careers for some of the writers and it gives me more names to search out for future reading. And, no, I don't have a story in this one, so my only prejudice is liking to laugh a lot.

Funniest Bubbas Yet!.......2007-08-14

If you're a Bubbas of the Apocalypse fan (and even if you aren't) buy this book!

Ok, so I'm the author of one of the stories, but really, I'd buy this book even if I didn't have a story in it. Think Bubbas, think Apocalypse and Yuppie Zombies, and think Outer-frickin'-Space and you get the idea. You get classy stories such as "It Came from Willie McCracken's Buttocks" and "How Tom Hanks Saved My Baby from the Moon" and "Possum Love, Princess of Mars" (and if these titles don't make you hit that 1-Click order button, nothing will!)

This is truly a delightful collection. Don't forget to check out the other Bubbas books including Bubbas of the Apocalypse, the Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse, and the International House of Bubbas.

It's a right good thing.

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