Conundrum How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse

Name: Conundrum How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse
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ISBN: 9781594485619

ISBN-10: 1594485615

ISBN-13: 9781594485619

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Owen

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A common sense yet contrarian manifesto on the environmental issues of our time, from the author of Green Metropolis. Driving hybrids, recycling, and appreciating nature isn't enough. Our best intentions are still at cross purposes to the true goal-living sustainably and caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Can behaviors, lives, and cultures be changed to start truly confronting the environmental issues we can no longer ignore? In this bold manifesto, David Owen reveals startling realities and ways to apply initially counter-intuitive but common sense approaches to change our modern lives-and the future-for the better.

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.10" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.396
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.




The Conundrum



Setting Things on Fire



Fossil Fuels as Credit Card



LEED-Certified Landfill



Problems Innovate, Too



The Greenest Community in the United States



Learning from Manhattan



Unconsciously Green



Sierra Club or Manhattan Club?



Sierra Club or AARP?



Why Oil is worse than Coal



Let Them Eat Kale?



Traffic Congestion Is Not an Environmental Problem



Transit That's Bad for the Environment



Fast Trains and the Prius Fallacy



Increased Efficiency Is Not the Answer



William Stanley Jevons



The Coal Question



How Increasing Efficiency Causes Overall Energy Consumption to Rise



Rebound Creep



The Importance of Less



What Would a Truly Green Car Look Like?



Plentiful, Inexpensive Natural Gas Is Not an Environmental Solution



Cheap, Efficient Lighting Is Not an Environmental Solution



Using Water More Efficiently Will Not Solve the World's Steadily Worsening Water Problems



Burning Trash Is Not the Answer



When Solar Power Isn't Green



Green or Not Green?



Flying a Kite



Harnessing Wind Without Windmills?



The Discouraging Economics of Innovation



Getting from Lab to Grid



Retrograde Innovation



The Conundrum