a user's guide for the 21st century Steffen, Alex. creator Gore, Albert 1948- text index nyu 2008 monographic eng

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596 p. ill. ; (chiefly col.) 25 cm. Foreword Al Core 11 -- Introducing Worldchanging Bruce Sterling 13 -- Editor's Introduction 15 -- How to use this book 25 -- Stuff : Introduction 29 -- Questioning Consumption 32 -- Consuming Responsibly 35 -- Understanding Trade 39 -- Creating healthy homes 47 -- Doing the right thing can be delicious 51 -- Buying Better Food 53-- Buying better food everywhere 57 -- Eating better meat and fish 63 -- The Future of Food 66 -- Preserving barnyard biodiversity 71 -- Cars and fuel 74 -- Bright green consumerism 81 -- Designing a sustainable world 83 -- Picking green materials 87 -- Craft it yourself 90 -- Engineer it yourself 93 -- Art meets technology 96 -- Biomimicry 99 -- Biomorphism 102 -- Nanotechnology 106 -- Neobiological industry 109 -- Knowing what's green 114 -- Producer responsibility 118 -- Collaborative design 123 -- Open source 127 -- Design for development 131 -- Bright green computers 134 -- SHELTERS: Green remodeling 142 -- Building a green home 147 -- Living well in a compact space 152 -- Developing green housing 155 -- Furniture and home decor 157 -- Lighting 160 -- Energy 162 -- Using energy efficiently 164 -- Green power 170 -- Going off the grid 179 -- Smart grids 183 -- Water 186 -- Conserving water 187 -- Thinking differently about water 189 -- Landscaping 198 -- EcoHouse Brazil 201 -- Refugees 203 -- Reinventing the refugee camp 207 -- Transforming disaster relief 210 -- Open-source humanitarian design 216 -- Land mines 218 -- Rethinking refugee reconstruction 220 -- CITIES: The bright green city 228 -- Vancouver 231 -- Portland 234 -- Retrofitting the suburbs 238 -- Big green buildings and skyscrapers 245 -- Healing polluted land 250 -- Greening infrastructure 254 -- Place making 259 -- Urban transportation 262 -- Product service systems 268 -- Chinese cities of the future 271 -- Lagos 279 -- Megacity innovations 282 -- The hidden vitality of slums 286 -- Leapfrogging 292 -- ICT4D 296 -- Brazil's Telecentros 300 -- Leapfrogging infrastructure 302 -- COMMUNITY: Holistic problem solving 310 -- Education and literacy 313 -- Educating girls and empowering women 316 -- Public health 323 -- South-south science 332 -- Copyfight 336 -- Urban community development 339 -- Community capital 342 -- Microfinance 346 -- Social entrepreneurship 352 -- Giving well 355 -- The barefoot college 359 -- Travel and tourism 363 -- Global culture 368 -- BUSINESS: Your money 382 -- Creating business value from sustainability 386 -- Green marketing 389 -- Brands 393 -- Thriving in a bright green economy 397 -- Seeing the big picture 402 -- Start-up 101 403 -- POLITICS: Movement building 412 -- Networking politics 418 -- Amplifying your voice 421 -- Connecting with others 426 -- Tools for talking 431 -- Demanding transparency 434 -- Demanding human rights 441 -- Watching the watchers 447 -- Protest 450 -- Direct action 456 -- Nonviolent revolution 460-- Ending violence 464 -- PLANET: Placing yourself 476 -- Citizen science 481 -- Restoration ecology 484 -- Ecosystem services 486 -- Biodiversity: how much nature is enough? 491 -- Sustainable forestry 494 -- Creating rural sustainability in the global south 498 -- Future of the small town 502 -- Local greenhouse forecast 506 -- Climate foresight 511 -- A personal action plan 514 -- Mapping 518 -- Charting the deep oceans 521 -- Polar regions 525 -- The solar system: greens in space 529 -- Imagining the future 535 -- Selected Bibliography 538 -- Contributor Biographies 547 -- Acknowledgments 555 -- Photography Credits 557 -- Index 562 -- edited by Alex Steffen, foreword by Al Gore ; design by Sagmeister Inc. Include index. Includes bibliographic references (p. 538-546) Environmentalism Green products Consumer education Sustainable development Green movement HC79.E5 S74 2008 9780810970854 9780810930957 pucpr 030210 20241114130649.0 eng