Download or read book Whose Green City written by Bianka Plüschke-Altof and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of an accelerating global urbanization and related ecological, climatic or social challenges to urban sustainability, this book focuses on the access to “safe, inclusive and accessible green and public space” as outlined in United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal No. 11. Looking through the lens of environmental justice and contested urban spaces, it raises the question who ultimately benefits from a green city development, and – even more importantly – who does not. While green space benefits are well-documented, green space provision is faced by multiple challenges in an era of urban neoliberalism. With their interdisciplinary and multi-method approach, the chapters in this book carefully study the different dimensions of green space access with particular focus on vulnerable groups, critically evaluate cases of procedural injustice and, in the case of Northern Europe that is often seen as forerunner of urban sustainability, provide in-depth studies on the contexts of injustices in urban greening. Chapters 1, 5, and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Download or read book The Green City and Social Injustice written by Isabelle Anguelovski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America over a 20-year period. It analyses the circumstances under which greening interventions can create a new set of inequalities for socially vulnerable residents while also failing to eliminate other environmental risks and impacts. Based on fieldwork in ten countries and on the analysis of core planning, policy and activist documents and data, the book offers a critical view of the growing green planning orthodoxy in the Global North. It highlights the entanglements of this tenet with neoliberal municipal policies including budget cuts for community initiatives, long-term green spaces and housing for the most fragile residents; and the focus on large-scale urban redevelopment and high-end real estate investment. It also discusses hopeful experiences from cities where urban greening has long been accompanied by social equity policies or managed by community groups organizing around environmental justice goals and strategies. The book examines how displacement and gentrification in the context of greening are not only physical but also socio-cultural, creating new forms of social erasure and trauma for vulnerable residents. Its breadth and diversity allow students, scholars and researchers to debunk the often-depoliticized branding and selling of green cities and reinsert core equity and justice issues into green city planning—a much-needed perspective. Building from this critical view, the book also shows how cities that prioritize equity in green access, in secure housing and in bold social policies can achieve both environmental and social gains for all.

Download or read book Green City written by Allan Drummond and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, a tornado destroyed Greensburg, Kansas, and the residents were at a loss as to what to do next--they didn't want to rebuild if their small town would just be destroyed in another storm. So they decided they wouldn't just rebuild the same old thing; this time, they would build a town that could not only survive another storm, but one that was built in an environmentally sustainable way. Told from the point of view of a child whose family rebuilt after the storm, this companion to Energy Island is the inspiring story of the difference one community can make--and it includes plenty of rebuilding scenes and details for construction lovers, too

Download or read book The Green City written by Nicholas Low and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.The book considers - and answers - three questions: What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most

Download or read book Green Metropolis written by David Owen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look out for David Owen's next book, Where the Water Goes. A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future. 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.

Download or read book Green Gentrification written by Kenneth Gould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban "greening" from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative examination of five cases of urban greening in Brooklyn, New York, it demonstrates that such initiatives, while positive for the environment, tend to increase inequality and thus undermine the social pillar of sustainable development. Although greening is ostensibly intended to improve environmental conditions in neighborhoods, it generates green gentrification that pushes out the working-class, and people of color, and attracts white, wealthier in-migrants. Simply put, urban greening "richens and whitens," remaking the city for the sustainability class. Without equity-oriented public policy intervention, urban greening is negatively redistributive in global cities. This book argues that environmental injustice outcomes are not inevitable. Early public policy interventions aimed at neighborhood stabilization can create more just sustainability outcomes. It highlights the negative social consequences of green growth coalition efforts to green the global city, and suggests policy choices to address them. The book applies the lessons learned from green gentrification in Brooklyn to urban greening initiatives globally. It offers comparison with other greening global cities. This is a timely and original book for all those studying environmental justice, urban planning, environmental sociology, and sustainable development as well as urban environmental activists, city planners and policy makers interested in issues of urban greening and gentrification.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change Second Edition written by S. George Philander and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 1719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Edition of the Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change provided a multi-authored, academic yet non-technical resource for students and teachers to understand the importance of global warming, to appreciate the effects of human activity and greenhouse gases around the world, and to learn the history of climate change and the research enterprise examining it. This edition was well received, with notable reviews. Since its publication, the debate over the advent of global warming at least partially brought on by human enterprise has continued to ebb and flow, depending literally on the weather, politics, and media coverage of climate summits and debates. Advances in research also change the discourse as new data is collected and new scientific projects continue to explore and explain global warming and climate change. Thus, a new, Second Edition updates more than half of the original entries and adds new perspectives and content to keep students and researchers up-to-date in a field that has proven provocatively lively.

Download or read book The Sustainable City VI written by C. A. Brebbia and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the multi-disciplinary aspects of urban planning, a result of the increasing size of cities, the amount of resources and services required and the complexity of modern society. Innovative tools are required for identifying the high complexity of contemporary cities. It is necessary to provide a more scientific approach to urban studies, inspired by Prigogine's theories of dissipative structures, and to highlight relations between different systems and between systems and the environment. The challenge of placing sustainable contemporary cities lies in considering the dynamics of urban systems, exchange of energy and matter and the function and maintenance of ordered structures directly or indirectly supplied and maintained by natural systems. The task of researchers, aware of the complexity of the contemporary city, is to increase the capacity to manage human activities pursuing welfare and prosperity in sustainable cities.

Download or read book Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions written by Undine Giseke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in integrated, climate-optimised urban development. Agriculture within urban growth centres today is more than an economic or social left-over or a niche practice. It is instead a complex system that offers multiple potentials for interaction with the urban system. Urban open space and agriculture can be linked to a productive green infrastructure – this forms new urban-rural linkages in the urbanizing region and helps shape the city. But in order to do this, agriculture has to be seen as an integral part of the urban fabric and it has to be put on the local agenda. Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions takes the example of Casablanca, one of the fastest growing cities in North Africa, to investigate this approach. The creation of synergies between the urban and rural in an emerging megacity is demonstrated through pilot projects, design solutions, and multifunctional modules. These synergies assure greater resource efficiency; particularly regarding the use and reuse of water, and they strengthen regional food security and the social integration of multiple spheres. A transdisciplinary research approach brings together different scientific disciplines and local actors into a process of integrated knowledge production. The book will have a long lasting legacy and is essential reading for researchers, planners, practitioners and policy makers who are working on urban development and urban agricultural strategies.

Download or read book The Sustainable City IV written by C. A. Brebbia and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban areas produce a series of environmental problems arising from the consumption of natural resources and the consequent generation of waste and pollution. These problems contribute to the development of social and economic imbalances. All these problems, which continue to grow in our society, require new solutions. This book addresses the many inter-related aspects of the urban environment from transport and mobility to social exclusion and crime prevention. Publishing papers from the Fourth International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability, the volume includes topics such as: Strategy and Development; Planning; Development and Management; Environmental Management; Planning Issues; Socio-economic Issues; The community and the City; Cultural Heritage; Architectural Issues; Traffic and Transportation; Land Use and Management; Public Safety; Conservation of Resources; Sustainable Transportation and Transport Integration; Depleted Ecological Resources; Environmental Pollution; Energy Resources Systems.

Download or read book The Geography of Hope written by Chris Turner and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the fierce warnings and grim predictions of The Weather Makers and An Inconvenient Truth, acclaimed journalist and national bestselling author Chris Turner finds hope in the search for a sustainable future. Point of no return: The chilling phrase has become the ubiquitous mantra of ecological doomsayers, a troubling headline above stories of melting permafrost and receding ice caps, visions of catastrophe and fears of a problem with no solution. Daring to step beyond the rhetoric of panic and despair, The Geography of Hope points to the bright light at the end of this very dark tunnel. With a mix of front-line reporting, analysis and passionate argument, Chris Turner pieces together the glimmers of optimism amid the gloom and the solutions already at work around the world, from Canada’s largest wind farm to Asia’s greenest building and Europe’s most eco-friendly communities. But The Geography of Hope goes far beyond mere technology. Turner seeks out the next generation of political, economic, social and spiritual institutions that could provide the global foundations for a sustainable future–from the green hills of northern Thailand to the parliament houses of Scandinavia, from the villages of southern India, where microcredit finance has remade the social fabric, to America’s most forward-thinking think tanks. In this compelling first-person exploration, punctuated by the wonder and angst of a writer discovering the world’s beacons of possibility, Chris Turner pieces together a dazzling map of the disparate landmarks in a geography of hope. While most of the world has been spinning in stagnant circles of recrimination and debate on the subject of climate change, paralyzed by visions of apocalypse both natural (if nothing of our way of life changes) and economic (if too much does), Denmark has simply marched off with steadfast resolve into the sustainable future, reaching the zenith of its pioneering trek on the island of Samsø. And so if there’s an encircled star on this patchwork map indicating hope’ s modest capital, then it should be properly placed on this island. Perhaps, for the sake of precision, at the geographic centre of Jørgen Tranberg’s dairy farm. There are, I’m sure, any number of images called to mind by talk of ecological revolution and renewable energy and sustainable living, but I’m pretty certain they don’t generally include a hearty fiftysomething Dane in rubber boots spotted with mud and cow shit. Which is why Samsø’s transformation is not just revolutionary but inspiring, not just a huge change but a tantalizingly attainable one. And it was a change that seemed at its most workaday–near-effortless, no more remarkable than the cool October wind gusting across the island–down on Tranberg’s farm. —from The Geography of Hope

Download or read book Green Cities written by Nevin Cohen and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful bracelets, funky brooches, and beautiful handmade beads: young crafters learn to make all these and much more with this fantastic step-by-step guide. In 12 exciting projects with simple steps and detailed instructions, budding fashionistas create their own stylish accessories to give as gifts or add a touch of personal flair to any ensemble. Following the successful "Art Smart" series, "Craft Smart" presents a fresh, fun approach to four creative skills: knitting, jewelry-making, papercrafting, and crafting with recycled objects. Each book contains 12 original projects to make, using a range of readily available materials. There are projects for boys and girls, carefully chosen to appeal to readers of all abilities. A special "techniques and materials" section encourages young crafters to try out their own ideas while learning valuable practical skills.

Download or read book Green City Rising written by Erin Katherine Goodling and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Green City Rising is an ethnographic account of collective organizing for environmental justice in an era of growing concern about environmental and climate challenges. The conventional sustainability paradigm promises improved environmental conditions for all, such as fresh air and clean water, walkable and bikeable neighborhoods, green space access, and protection from climate crises. Yet, without particular interventions, the pursuit of such environmental amenities often contributes to displacement and further harm for communities that have historically borne the brunt of land theft, racial capitalism, and toxic industries. Drawing on the work of an alliance of grassroots organizations called the Portland Harbor Community Coalition (PHCC), Erin Goodling shows how communities have come together across lines of race and class to work for a more just, green future in Portland, Oregon. Green City Rising reveals that the violence of settler colonialism and white supremacy are far from endpoints: a collective vision for a better future is emerging, and ordinary people are building the understanding, skills, and relationships necessary to usher it in"--

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change written by S. George Philander and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 1505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2008 Best Reference, Library Journal "The impact of global warming is rapidly evolving. This valuable resource provides an excellent historical overview and framework of this topic and serves as a general resource for geography, oceanography, biology, climatology, history, and many other subjects. A useful reference for a wide audience of business professionals and government officials as well as for the general public; essential for both academic and public libraries." —Library Journal "This is a useful set because of the individual country entries as well as the general-audience language . . ." — Booklist (Starred Review) The Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change helps readers learn about the astonishingly intricate processes that make ours the only planet known to be habitable. These three volumes include more than 750 articles that explore major topics related to global warming and climate change—ranging geographically from the North Pole to the South Pole, and thematically from social effects to scientific causes. Key Features Contains a 4-color, 16-page insert that is a comprehensive introduction to the complexities of global warming Includes coverage of the science and history of climate change, the polarizing controversies over climate-change theories, the role of societies, the industrial and economic factors, and the sociological aspects of climate change Emphasizes the importance of the effects, responsibilities, and ethics of climate change Presents contributions from leading scholars and institutional experts in the geosciences Serves as a general resource for geography, oceanography, biology, climatology, history, and many other subjects The Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change provides a primarily nonscientific resource to understanding the complexities of climate change for academic and public libraries. READER'S GUIDE Atmospheric Sciences Climate climate and Society Climate Change, Effects Climate Feedbacks Climate Models Countries: Africa Countries: Americas Countries: Asia Countries: Europe Countries: Pacific Glaciology Government and International Agencies Institutions Studying Climate Change Oceanography Paleo-Climates People Programs And Conventions

Download or read book Live 2019 12 No 224 written by LiveABC編輯群 and published by 希伯崙股份有限公司. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 〔適用對象：國高中生~成人，一般生活英語會話、全民英檢中級程度〕 Live互動英語雜誌：教材貼近生活、流行，內容實用充滿趣味，附真人情境式主題會話，體驗如在國外環境學英語的驚人效果，讓你輕鬆開口說英語！ ►購買完整紙本書請上：https://goo.gl/sgu0uq Live Interactive English Live互動英語 NO. 224 December 2019年12月號 4 專題報導 9 焦點話題 10 焦點人物 Khalid: A Different Path to Fame 潮青天才凱利德：不一樣的成名之路 節奏藍調才子凱利德（Khalid）出道短短兩年就獲得五座葛萊美獎提名、拿下多項指標性音樂大獎，也被滾石雜誌、美國告示牌等列為「你必須知道的藝人」。凱利德用他獨特渾厚的嗓音為年輕世代發聲，大獲國際好評，來了解他不一樣的成名過程吧！ 14 動物趣聞 Aye-Aye: The Lemur with the "Deadly" Finger 指猴：被誤解的死亡使者 馬達加斯加島上住著人稱「死亡使者」的指猴，當地人認為牠們黑色的邪靈大眼和異常修長的手指會帶來厄運，一看到指猴便將其殺死，因此嚴重威脅到指猴的存亡。 19 日常好用句 Cat got your tongue? 為什麼不說話？ 20 克漏字 Why Are Smiles So Rare in the History of Art? 畫像人物為什麼不笑？ 在美術館中看著一幅幅古代的肖像畫時，你很可能會發現畫中人都面無笑容，究竟是為什麼呢？ 22 生活健康 Brain Exercises That Keep Your Mind Fit 多動腦長保大腦健康 規律運動對保持身體健康很重要，但你知道嗎？要防止記憶力衰退，可以透過鍛鍊大腦來改善喔！一起來看看有哪些方法吧！ 26 生活情境對話 Getting a Haircut 剪個滿意的髮型 30 環境新知 The Unexpected Effects of Extreme Heat 熱浪來襲的意外影響 極端高溫事件在世界各地頻傳。除了冰山融化、森林大火等各種天災，極端高溫還會帶來什麼意外的影響呢？ 34 旅遊好去處 Tanzania: An Adventure of a Lifetime 坦尚尼亞的探險之旅 位在東非的坦尚尼亞有豐富多樣的野生動物和文化，喜愛冒險的遊客可以挑戰非洲第一高峰吉力馬札羅山，還可以到擁有細白沙灘與蔚藍海水的桑吉巴度過悠閒的時光，來趟探險之旅，好好享受一生難得的體驗！ 38 唱歌學英語 Studying English with Songs: Better 凱利德：〈更美好〉 39 翻譯練習 Translation Practice 翻譯練習 42 生活安全 House Fire Dos and Don'ts 有備無患，居家防火常識報你知 火災發生時，你會選擇躲到浴室裡、往高樓層避難、用溼毛巾摀住口鼻逃生嗎？上述防災的三大迷思可能害你喪命，來看看消防專家的正確逃生觀念。 46 聖誕故事 The Other Wise Man 〈第四個賢者〉 〈第四個賢者〉為美國作家亨利．凡．戴克（Henry van Dyke）的創作故事，描述耶穌（Jesus）誕生時，除了《新約聖經》中記載的三位賢者，其實還有第四個人前去朝聖，然而…… 51 閱讀策略 A New Year, a Better You 許下新年志願，迎接更好的自己 你還記得當初許下的新年新希望嗎？是不是一月還沒過完就被你拋諸腦後了？新的一年，與其許下容易放棄的新年計劃，不如讓目標實際且明確，也才比較有可能達成。 57 主題式會話 At a Bank 銀行英語 60 環保尖兵 Kate Sessions: The California Woman Whose Green Thumb Changed a City 樹媽媽——她把聖地牙哥綠化了 陽光明媚的聖地牙哥有著綠色之都的美名，許多人喜歡在當地公園享受陽光從樹梢間灑落的氛圍，這番綠意盎然的景致歸功於「樹媽媽」凱特．塞欣斯的努力，她讓各式各樣的花草植物在聖地牙哥生長茁壯。 62 電影快報 64 Movie Trailer English 看預告片學英文 65 General English Proficiency Test 全民英檢中級模擬聽力試題 71 GEPT Answer Key 全民英檢中級模擬聽力試題解答 73 Chinese Translation 中文翻譯 Khalid: A Different Path to Fame 潮青天才凱利德：不一樣的成名之路 There used to be only one path to becoming a music star. First, a producer discovers you. Then, you work with him or her to make your first album, and hopefully, it becomes a hit. Khalid’s path to stardom was different. He spent much of his childhood bouncing around different places because of his mother’s job as a US Army singer. As a result, he often felt sad and alone. At that time, he was not yet a musician but had a strong love and talent for music thanks to his mother’s influence. In his own words, he “was raised through music.” For his senior year of high school, Khalid ended up in El Paso, Texas. To help deal with his feelings, he wrote songs and posted them on SoundCloud. As the day of his senior prom got closer, the young man wanted to put out a special song for the occasion. This turned out to be his breakthrough single “Location.” The song launched Khalid to fame after a social media star played it on her Snapchat, which happened to be on the same day that Khalid graduated high school. 過去要成為音樂明星只有一個途徑。首先，一名製作人發現你。然後，你和他或她合作來製作你的首張專輯，並且希望它能一炮而紅。 凱利德的成名之路有所不同。他的童年因為母親擔任美軍歌手的工作而大多數的時間都輾轉在不同地方生活。因此，他常感到悲傷與孤獨。當時，他還不是音樂人，但由於媽媽的影響，他熱愛音樂而且很有才華。用他的話來說：他「是透過音樂養大的。」 凱利德高三時落腳到了德州艾爾帕索。為了抒發他的心情感受，他寫歌並將它們發布在SoundCloud上。隨著畢業舞會的日子越來越近，這名年輕人想為這個活動推出一首特別的歌曲。結果這就成了他取得重大進展的單曲〈Location〉。社群媒體上的一位明星在Snapchat上播放這首歌後讓凱利德聲名大噪，這剛好就是凱利德高中畢業的那一天。 Since Khalid graduated high school, he has released two full albums, completed a sold-out tour, won several awards, and earned five Grammy nominations for his debut album. But it was earlier this year when Khalid made history by becoming the first artist to occupy the entire top 5 of the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It’s even been reported that Khalid is the biggest global artist on Spotify. Known for his full, powerful voice and catchy, accessible lyrics, this humble kid has truly had a fast rise to the top. His song “The Ways” could be heard in Black Panther, and “Love Lies” appeared in 2018’s Love, Simon. He has also worked with other famous artists like Shawn Mendes on “Youth” and Billie Eilish on the track “Lovely.” Early on, Khalid got a lot of support from the people of El Paso, and he’s returning the favor by starting the Great Khalid Foundation. It gives kids the push they need to achieve their dreams in the arts. His next goal is to open a music school. “It’s all a work in progress,” he says, “but you gotta start somewhere.” 凱利德自高中畢業後已發行了兩張完整專輯，完成一場銷售一空的巡迴演出，贏得好幾個獎項，並且以首張大碟獲得五項葛萊美獎提名。但就在今年初凱利德締造了歷史，成為有史以來第一個包辦《告示牌》節奏藍調/嘻哈歌曲榜前五名所有歌曲的藝人。甚至有報導指出，凱利德是Spotify上全球最受歡迎的藝人。這個謙遜、以渾厚磅礡的嗓音和琅琅上口、淺顯易懂的歌詞聞名的孩子迅速走紅。他的歌曲〈The Ways〉可以在《黑豹》中聽到，而〈Love Lies〉則出現在二○一八年的《親愛的初戀》中。他也和其他知名藝人合作，如尚恩．曼德斯的〈Youth〉以及怪奇比莉的單曲〈Lovely〉。 早些時候，凱利德得到艾爾帕索人許多的支持，他也藉由成立凱利德基金會（The Great Khalid Foundation）作為回報。它給予孩子在他們追求音樂夢想時所需的鼓勵。他的下一個目標是創辦一所音樂學校。他說：「所有工作都在進行中，不過你得從某個地方開始。」

Download or read book Smart Green Cities written by Woodrow Clark II and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart Green Cities: is a comprehensive overview of what global cities are doing to become sustainable. Woodrow W. Clark II and Grant Cooke have produced a book that is both practical and visionary. They have examined the infrastructure needs - sustainable development, communications, energy, water, waste, and transportation to develop guidelines, processes and best practices. City leaders are key to mitigating climate change who must plan, design and implement solutions. Smart Green Cities (SGC) offers a global perspective that includes implementing the Green Industrial Revolution the title of their last book. SGC discusses innovative emerging technologies, and the new economics paradigm that move beyond the out-dated neo-classical economics. The authors present examples from around the world including Europe, the U.S, China and the Middle East, which discuss the best green technologies from renewable energy power generation to smart on-site grid development. The extraordinary shift from a rural to an urban world is described; national plans are analyzed; so that future cities will be designed, built and implemented now - not 50 years from now. The struggle for the planet’s survival is being waged by the world’s cities. Clark and Cooke argue that cities are the key to mitigating climate change and reducing toxic greenhouse gas emissions. SGC introduces sustainable technologies; discusses the economics for implementing the solutions; and offers numerous examples to serve as pathways for cities to become smart, green, and thus carbon neutral.

Download or read book Green Town USA written by Thomas J. Fox and published by Hatherleigh Press. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There was never a town with a truer name, though it didn't really discover it till tragedy created an opportunity that residents seized with head and heart!" — Bill McKibben, author Oil and Honey:The Education of an Unlikely Activist Hope for a greener America . . . from the extraordinary community that made it a reality. Green Town U.S.A. recounts Greensburg’s inspiring story of resilience, community, and sustainability which began on the evening of May 4, 2007, when disaster struck the quiet Kansas city. A tornado topping all the scales touched down, and in a matter of minutes, Greensburg, which stood for more than 120 years, was destroyed. Greensburg committed to reconstructing itself from the ground up while embracing green technology and building methods, along with solar and wind energy. The new Greensburg stands testament to the strength and viability of sustainable community redevelopment and energy-efficient living. Green Town U.S.A. is a story of hope and opportunity—even in the face of obstacles and difficulties—and provides a real-world proving ground for sustainable solutions. Green Town U.S.A. takes you through the entire reconstruction process, from Long-Term Community Recovery planning for Greensburg, to the latest advancements in green materials and technology, to the leadership and teambuilding necessary to realize an achievement of this magnitude. Every town can be a “green town.” Any community faced with rebuilding after a natural disaster, planning new municipal buildings or schools, upgrading retail or industrial centers, or building homes can gain valuable insight from the example of Greensburg, Kansas. Green Town U.S.A. is an invaluable handbook for civic leaders, concerned citizens, business owners, and anyone who is a stakeholder in America’s sustainable future.