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The health of our planet and our selves depends on how we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings. Our increasing dependence on fossil fuels over the last century has given us unprecedented individual mobility and comfort, but the consequences are clear. Climate change, sprawl, and reliance on foreign oil are just a few of the challenges we face in designing new—and adapting existing—communities to be greener.
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Live sustainably now : a low-carbon vision of the good life
\"Any realistic response to climate change will require reducing carbon emissions to a sustainable level. Yet even people who already recognize that the climate is the most urgent issue facing the planet struggle to understand their individual responsibilities. Is it even possible to live with a sustainable carbon footprint in modern American society--much less to live well? What are the options for those who would like to make climate awareness part of daily life but don't want to go off the grid or become a hermit? In Live Sustainably Now, Karl Coplan shares his personal journey of attempting to cut back on carbon without giving up the amenities of a suburban middle-class lifestyle. Coplan chronicles the joys and challenges of a year on a carbon budget--kayaking to work, hunting down electric-car charging stations, eating a Mediterranean-style diet, and enjoying plenty of travel on weekends and vacations while avoiding long-distance flights. He explains how to set a personal carbon cap and measure your actual footprint--with his own results detailed in monthly diaries. Presenting the pros and cons of different energy, transportation, and lifestyle options, Live Sustainably Now shows that there does not have to be a trade-off between the ethical obligation to maintain a sustainable carbon footprint and the belief that life should be fulfilling and fun\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up
The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent
years. In the United States, enterprising communities have
transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from
extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy
consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives-and have
transformed from impoverished neighborhoods into green development
zones. Yet these promising achievements remain a small part of the
total economy and are largely ignored by policy makers, pundits,
and economists.
In Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing
Real World Experience for Transformative Change , Anthony
Flaccavento introduces readers to the innovators who are creating
thriving, locally based economies and provides a road map for
others who are interested in doing the same. He demonstrates that,
despite the success of local initiatives like farmers' markets and
clean energy cooperatives, true and lasting change of this type
stalls without the appropriate discussion and implementation of
public policies that define their lasting impact. He shows how
active citizens can spur essential changes, generate community
capital, increase civic dialogue, and foster sustainability
efforts.
Flaccavento skillfully combines economic analysis and public
policy recommendations with practical solutions. His call to
collective action will appeal to scholars, entrepreneurs,
policymakers, community activists, environmentalists, and all
citizens passionate about the health of their communities.
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Gray to green communities : a call to action on the housing and climate crises
Bourland argues that we need to move away from a gray housing model to a green model, which considers the health and well-being of residents, their communities, and the planet. She demonstrates that we do not have to choose between protecting our planet and providing housing affordable to all. Bourland draws from her experience leading the Green Communities Program at Enterprise Community Partners, a national community development intermediary. Her work resulted in the first standard for green affordable housing which was designed to deliver measurable health, economic, and environmental benefits. --From publisher description.
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Black and Green
Black and Green is a call to action for the Black community to join the green movement.The book offers insights, ideas, and strategies that demonstrate how Black people can benefit from this movement and also fuel the go-green effort.
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We are as gods : back to the land in the 1970s on the quest for a new America
\"Between 1970 and 1974 ten million Americans abandoned the city, and the commercialism, and all the inauthentic bourgeois comforts of the Eisenhower-era America of their parents. Instead, they went back to the land. It was the only time in modern history that urbanization has gone into reverse. Kate Daloz follows the dreams and ideals of a small group of back-to-the-landers to tell the story of a nationwide movement and moment. And she shows how the faltering, hopeful, but impractical impulses of that first generation sowed the seeds for the organic farming movement and the transformation of American agriculture and food tastes. In the Myrtle Hill commune and neighboring Entropy Acres, high-minded ideas of communal living and shared decision-making crash headlong into the realities of brutal Northern weather and the colossal inconvenience of having no plumbing or electricity. Nature, it turns out, is not always a generous or provident host-frosts are hard, snowfalls smother roads, and small wood fires do not heat imperfectly insulated geodesic domes. Group living turns out to be harder than expected too. Being free to do what you want and set your own rules leads to some unexpected limitations: once the group starts growing a little marijuana they can no longer call on the protection of the law, especially against a rogue member of a nearby community. For some of the group, the lifestyle is truly a saving grace; they credit it with their survival. For others, it is a prison sentence. We Are As Gods (the first line of the Whole Earth Catalog, the movement's bible) is a poignant rediscovery of a seminal moment in American culture, whose influence far outlasted the communities that took to the hills and woods in the late '60s and '70s and remains present in every farmer's market, every store selling Stonyfield products, or Keen shoes, or Patagonia sportswear. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cooler Smarter
How can each of us live Cooler Smarter?While the routine decisions that shape our days--what to have for dinner, where to shop, how to get to work--may seem small, collectively they have a big effect on global warming.But which changes in our lifestyles might make the biggest difference to the climate?.
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Transitioning to Sustainability Through Research and Development on Ecosystem Services and Biofuels
The National Research Council's Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability hosted \"Transitioning to Sustainability through Research and Development on Ecosystem Services and Biofuels: The National Academies' First Federal Sustainability Research and Development Forum\" on October 17- 18, 2007.
The forum discussed sustainability research and development activities related to ecosystem services and biofuels. The objective of the forum was to identify research gaps and opportunities for collaboration among federal agencies to meet the challenges to sustainability posed by the need to maintain critical ecosystem services, to support the development of alternatives to conventional fossil fuels, and to manage oceans and coastal areas. The forum focused primarily on federal activities, but included the participation of representatives from the private sector, universities, and nongovernmental organizations. This book is a summary the discussions from the forum.
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