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Green metropolis : why living smaller, living closer, and driving less are keys to sustainability
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Upending the environmentalist viewpoint that urban areas are "anti-green," New Yorker staff writer David Owen argues that sustainability is achieved in areas like New York City, while open space, b...
Upending the environmentalist viewpoint that urban areas are "anti-green," New Yorker staff writer David Owen argues that sustainability is achieved in areas like New York City, while open space, backyard compost heaps, locavorism and high-tech gadgetry like solar panels and triple-paned windows are formulas for wasteful sprawl and green-washed consumerism.
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- Creator
- David Owen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Riverhead Books, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- 357 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781594488825, 1594488827
- OCLC
- ocn311778342
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- More like Manhattan -- Liquid civilization -- There and back -- The great outdoors -- Embodied efficiency -- The shape of things to come
Subjects
- Human ecology -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Urban ecology (Sociology) -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Social ecology -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Sustainable living -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Sustainable architecture -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Green technology -- New York (State) -- New York.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Environmental conditions.