Green Metropolis Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability

Name: Green Metropolis Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability
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ISBN: 9781594484841

ISBN-10: 1594484848

ISBN-13: 9781594484841

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Owen

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From the acclaimed "New Yorker" writer, a thought-provoking, innovative, and challenging new approach to protecting our environment. Most Americans think of cities as ecological nightmares-wastelands of concrete, garbage, diesel fumes and traffic jams-but residents of urban cores actually consume less oil, electricity, and water than hybrid- driving Vermonters do, and they have smaller carbon footprints. Essentially, they're forced to. In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen offers an invaluable environmental template for a global population that is growing as natural resources shrink. "Green Metropolis" will change the way people think about…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/2/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.23" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

David Owen is on the staffs of both The New Yorker and Golf Digest. A frequent contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, and the author of nine previous books, he lives in Washington, Connecticut.




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