Green metropolis : why living smaller, living closer, and driving less are keys to sustainability /
Owen, David
Green metropolis : why living smaller, living closer, and driving less are keys to sustainability / David Owen. - 357 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
More like Manhattan -- Liquid civilization -- There and back -- The great outdoors -- Embodied efficiency -- The shape of things to come.
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.
1594488827 9781594488825
2009017116
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.
GF504.N7 / O95 2009
304.2091732
Green metropolis : why living smaller, living closer, and driving less are keys to sustainability / David Owen. - 357 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
More like Manhattan -- Liquid civilization -- There and back -- The great outdoors -- Embodied efficiency -- The shape of things to come.
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.
1594488827 9781594488825
2009017116
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.
GF504.N7 / O95 2009
304.2091732