CE/EEE 355: Engineering Environmental Sustainability: Google and Purdue Libraries Databases

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Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology.

Outlines major issues, including background, outlook, pros/cons, maps, and next steps.

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