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Meat, Milk & Climate
Isomäki, RistoInto KustannusAccording to FAO livestock and other farm animals produce 18 per cent of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Other organizations have said that the figure might be considerably...
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The Oil Palm Controversy
Isomäki, RistoInto KustannusOil palms have been an agricultural mainstay in humid tropics for thousands of years. Today, extensive oil palm cultivation offers the most feasible solution for sustainable biofue...
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Scarlet Exodus
Kontula, AnnaInto KustannusWhy do some women decide to sell sex by choice, or at least without being subject to any obvious coercion? Anna Kontula has met hundreds of sex workers and interviewed dozens of th...
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CETI Revisited
Isomäki, RistoInto KustannusCETI Revisited investigates the old idea of communicating with extraterrestrial civilizations from a number of new angles. It proposes a new and affordable strategy for humanity's...
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The Tragedy of Transport
Tammilehto, OlliInto KustannusThe Tragedy of Transport takes a critical look at one of the main pillars of our consumerist lifestyle: the global transport system. More comprehensively than anything published to...
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Who Is Responsible? War Crimes in Chechnya
Chelysheva, Oksana; Dmitrijevski, Stanislav; Gvarely, BogdanInto KustannusThe book reveals the gross human rights violations committed against the Chechen civilians during the Chechen conflict. It addresses the alleged criminals and demands them to accou...
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Ships, Sulphur and Climate
Isomäki, Risto; Pettay, RistoInto KustannusIs it a good time to reduce the sulphur emissions from shipping? The book has a look on the scientists' efforts to quantify the cooling impact of the ships' present sulphur emissio...
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Hidden in Plain Sight
Suoranta, JuhaInto KustannusIn the spring of 2009 an underage asylum-seeker from Afghanistan named Ashraf Sahil awaited immediate deportation from Finland. His cry for help was answered by a professor from Ta...
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At the bottom of the energy ladder
Kuria, PeterInto KustannusAn ancient practice promises to resolve key biomass energy problems of the future. Overwhelmingly, humans continue to use biomass feedstock as the basic form of fuel. This has impa...
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They Followed Me in the Street
Chelysheva, OksanaInto KustannusThe Assassination of a Journalist and Other Horror Stories from Present Day Russia. The colleague of Anna Politkovskaya, Oksana Chelysheva is a Russian human rights activist, write...
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Rethinking Nuclear Power
Isomäki, RistoInto KustannusFrom the 1950's until the 1970's governments and corporations dreamt about nuclear aeroplanes and trains as well as freight and passenger ships powered by small nuclear reactors. T...
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66 ways
Isomäki, RistoInto KustannusThe melting of Greenland, West Antarctic ice sheets, Arctic sea ice and Siberian permafrost has caused a rapid shift in international climate debate. A growing number of leading sc...
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CETI Revisited
Isomäki, RistoInto Kustannus 2013 1. editionCETI Revisited investigates the old idea of communicating with extraterrestrial civilizations from a number of new angles. It proposes a new and affordable strategy for humanity’s...