Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability [Audiobook] download free by David Owen
- Listen audiobook: Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
- Author: David Owen
- Release date: 2011/6/2
- Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9781594484841
- Rating: 8.66 of 10
- Votes: 835
- Review by: Aylin Lund
- Review rating: 7.24 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/13
- Duration: 4H34M50S in 256 kbps (73.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-04
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: TTA, MPEG4, WAV, FLAC, MP3, WMA (compression DMG, CHM, ALZ, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 368
- Includes a PDF summary of 37 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 28M51S (7.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York, New York. Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all, spend far less time in automobiles. Residents of Manhattan- the most densely populated place in North America -rank first in public-transit use and last in percapita greenhouse-gas production, and they consume gasoline at a rate that the country as a whole hasn't matched since the mid-1920s, when the most widely owned car in the United States was the Ford Model T. They are also among the only people in the United States for whom walking is still an important means of daily transportation. These achievements are not accidents.Spreading people thinly across the countryside may make them feel green, but it doesn't reduce the damage they do to the environment. In fact, it increases the damage, while also making the problems they cause harder to see and to address. Owen contends that the environmental problem we face, at the current stage of our assault on the world's nonrenewable resources, is not how to make teeming cities more like the pristine countryside. The problem is how to make other settled places more like Manhattan, whose residents presently come closer than any other Americans to meeting environmental goals that all of us, eventually, will have to come to terms with.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Central Government Policies, Sustainability, Urban Communities, Environmentally-friendly Architecture & Design, Development Economics, Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.82 USD
- Dimensions: 153x209x26mm
- Weight: 340g
- Printed by: Riverhead Books,U.S.
- Published in: New York, United States
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