Greg Cunningham continues his investigative reporting, but brings it home and keeps it more local with his Exposé on Sustainability. His small town is threatened with extinction when a big box store comes into the area and sucks out all of the money. He investigates the many facets of sustainability while the little town fights for its existence.
Table des matières
The Demise of Small Towns 1
The Homestead. 7
Selling the Pitch. 19
Confronting Mall Mart 23
The Sustainability Tour 31
Peak Oil 56
Our Healthcare System.. 66
Into the Mouth of the Beast 75
Waste at City Hall 81
The Local Food System.. 89
Wealth Inequality. 94
The Lap of Luxury. 103
The Mountain. 122
Walkable, Bikeable Cities 134
The Wedding. 143
The Hoosier Environmental Council 148
AASHE Conference. 156
Confrontation at Home. 162
Jones, Hackett, and Williamson. 167
The Birth. 171
Cradle to Cradle. 179
Rephrasing the Conversation. 186
The Chase. 193
Downhome Christmas 202
Legacy. 212
The Very Air We Breathe. 220
Chasing Happiness 232
The Trap. 246
Threatened. 251
The Settlement 258
Going Local 261
Glossary. 265
References 270
Index. 281
A propos de l’auteur
Dr. James H. Speer is a Professor of Geography and Geology at Indiana State University. He received his bachelors and master’s degree from the University of Arizona in Geosciences and his Ph D from the University of Tennessee in Geography. He is a biogeography who uses tree-ring to reconstruct environmental variables such as fire history and insect outbreaks. Through his years of studying environmental history he has realized that humans are operating outside of the natural range of variability for most natural systems which has motivated him to give back to society by being a champion for sustainability at Indiana State University and in the Wabash Valley. Dr. Speer is a Senior Scholar for the Institute for Community Sustainability, which was established in February 2012. He is the President for Our Green Valley Alliance for Sustainability, on the board for the Terre Foods Cooperative Market, on the Tree Advisory Board for ISU, is a past president of the Geography Educator’s Network of Indiana, and is a past president of the Tree-Ring Society. He lives in Terre Haute Indiana with his wife who also teaches at ISU with a Ph D in Anthropology and their two sons Leif and Lewis.
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