In Out of the Wasteland, founding Executive Director of the Community Environmental Council Paul Relis takes us on a journey of the environmental frontier, from the heady days of the birth of environmentalism in Santa Barbara, into the intricate, obfuscated but all important world of government and policy, to important new environmental technologies that can, indeed, free us from this age of oil.
Mục lục
Foreword by Pico Iyer, 1 – Prologue, 2 – Awakening, 3 – The Realm of Ideas, 4 – Inspiration, 5 – Small is Beautiful, 6 – Design with Nature, 7 – The Garden of the Heart’s Delight, 8 – Santa Barbara Stands Fast, 9 – Mr. Pollock’s Challenge, 10 – Survival Times, 11 – The Garden as a Centering Force, 12 – Disputes at the Urban-Rural Border, 13 – Earth Day 1970, 14 – Standing Up to Power, 15 – A Farm in the City, 16 – El Mirasol Polyculture Farm, 17 – When Dreams Get Tough, 18 – A Beacon on the Hill , 19 – When You’re Blocked, Adapt, 20 – Building Community Gardens , 21 – How Big Should Our City Be?, 22 – In Defense of Agriculture, 23 – Building Our Dream, 24 – Between the Idea and the Reality: Early Sustainability Metrics, 25 – Making Use of the Lulls, 26 – A Design Competition, 27 – Inviting Art In, 28 – Garbage, 29 – At the Ground Floor of Recycling , 30 – The Power of the Word, 31 – Into Berkeley We Dared to Tread, 32 – Recycling Goes Mainstream, 33 – A Journey to the Far East, 34 – Taiwan: A Glimpse into the World’s Electronic Wasteland, 35 – China: A Recycling Dragon Awakens , 36 – Smokey Mountain, Manila, 37 – Using Less Stuff, 38 – Out of the Comfort Zone , 39 – Politics, 40 – Organics: The Magic of Biology, 41 – Regulation as Art, 42 – Waste and Renewable Energy , 43 – Biofiltration, 44 – The End of Landfills?, 45 – Biogas, 46 – On the Matter of Scale, 47 – Fossil-Free? , 48 – When Certainty is the Enemy, 49 – Community Energy Blueprints, 50 – Transportation Fuels, 51 – Wind , 52 – Sun, 53 – Sea, 54 – Post-Petroleum Economics, 55 – A Post-Oil Pattern Language, 56 – Renewable Technology Diffusion, 57 – Bio-based Packaging, 58 – Local Food, 59 – Bicycle and Foot Power, 60 – Rethinking Our Regulatory System, 61 – Scale, 62 – Perspective and Resolve, Acknowledgements, About the Author, Photo Credits, Notes
Thêm sách điện tử từ cùng một tác giả / Biên tập viên
47.207 Ebooks trong thể loại này
