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Social issues are, and need to be, a central part of environmental and economic sustainability efforts. Using stories of extraordinary communities across North America, Living Green showcases the social side of living green.

The book features communities that explicitly integrate social and human factors into their design and planning, and examines the impact living in these communities has on personal health, well-being and the capacity for pursuing sustainability. It includes interviews with developers, architects and residents, highlighting personal ideals and efforts to pursue a sustainable lifestyle.

The book's three parts explore:

How community is central to sustainable living in everything from co-housing to communes Communities that specifically integrate green building design components with social justice politics such as racism, poverty and urban alienation. Housing options geared toward mainstream living that offer individual choices to those who wish to live green.

Written for those desiring to hear a good news story, Living Green will appeal to individuals and communities living a sustainable lifestyle, green building activists, and academics in sociology, planning and design, architecture and environmental fields.

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• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Living Green - an Introduction(p. 1)
• The Relationship between People and their Built Environments(p. 3)
• Meanings of Home(p. 4)
• The Green Building Movement(p. 6)
• Linking Communities and Built Environments(p. 10)
• Highlighting the Social in the Three Es of Sustainability(p. 13)
• Part 1 Community
• Chapter 1 Back to the Land(p. 19)
• Twin Oaks: An Experiment in Communal Living(p. 21)
• Living Green at Twin Oaks(p. 25)
• Ouje-Bougoumou(p. 29)
• Living Green at Ouje-Bougoumou(p. 33)
• Maintaining Community through Sustainable Design + Interaction(p. 36)
• Chapter 2 Living Green through Cohousing(p. 39)
• Cohousing as Green Living(p. 40)
• Planning and Building Together(p. 41)
• Community Living as Green Living(p. 46)
• Actions that Sustain(p. 54)
• Part 2 Social Justice and Sustainability
• Chapter 3 An Alternative for Los Angeles(p. 59)
• Beginnings(p. 61)
• Intentional Community at LA Ecovillage(p. 65)
• Car Free in LA(p. 69)
• A Permaculture Approach to Social Activism(p. 72)
• Community Outreach and Connection(p. 74)
• Cultivating Action(p. 77)
• Chapter 4 Greening Grey(p. 79)
• Social Housing: Historical Roots, Current Vision(p. 83)
• Chez Soi at Green Energy Benny Farm(p. 84)
• Living Green at Chez Soi(p. 88)
• Sustainable Aging in Community(p. 91)
• Chapter 5 Greening Affordable Housing(p. 95)
• The Context: The City of San Francisco(p. 97)
• SOMA: The Neighborhood and its History(p. 100)
• The Project: Developing Green + Supportive Housing(p. 103)
• Promoting Social Sustainability at Folsom/Dore(p. 107)
• Lessons Learned from Folsom/Dore(p. 112)
• Part 3 Personal Choice - Living Green as Individuals
• Chapter 6 A Love Affair - The Cazadero Nature and Art Conservancy(p. 117)
• Margaret Fabrizio(p. 118)
• Traveling to The Land(p. 120)
• Art and The Land: Collaborating with Nature(p. 122)
• Adding Small Structures(p. 125)
• The Side Effect of Social Connection(p. 127)
• Human-Environment Connection(p. 128)
• Chapter 7 Mainstream Green(p. 133)
• Greening the Nuclear Family Home(p. 134)
• Green Housing for the Masses: Rethinking Little Boxes on a Hillside(p. 139)
• Thinking Beyond Single-Family Homes Redesigning Neighborhoods(p. 142)
• Sustainable Building Practices at Dockside Green(p. 145)
• Living Dockside Green(p. 147)
• People Make it Green(p. 150)
• Lessons Learned: The Ten Cs of Social Sustainability(p. 155)
• 1 Culture(p. 156)
• 2 Context(p. 158)
• 3 Citizenship(p. 160)
• 4 Commitment(p. 162)
• 5 Collaboration(p. 164)
• 6 Connectedness(p. 165)
• 7 Care(p. 167)
• 8 Contact(p. 168)
• 9 Commons(p. 169)
• 10 Continuity(p. 170)
• Endnotes(p. 173)
• Works Cited(p. 180)
• Index(p. 186)
• About the Authors(p. 197)

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Laura Mamo and Jennifer Fosket are PhD trained sociologists who have each made a career out of documenting people's experiences and ideas as they concern health and everyday living. Jennifer Fosket is an independent researcher and writer living in Berkeley, California. Laura Mamo is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. They are cofounders of Social Green, a nonprofit organization.