Chris Goodall

Sustainability: All That Matters (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Building a sustainable society is perhaps the greatest test that the world has ever faced. Prosperity has been created by ruthless and ill-disciplined mining of the world's resources, compounded by a cavalier disregard for the implications of pollution from industrial and agricultural processes. Today's generation has borrowed from the future by grabbing prosperity now and imposing the cost on the next generation. In this startling and informative book, which will appeal to both students and general readers, award-winning writer Chris Goodall provides a coherent new explanation of what sustainability actually is. Goodall then goes onto explore nine key sustainability challenges, applying the theory of sustainability to look at food, travel, clothing, electricity, heating and cooling, paper and cardboard, construction, consumer electronics, and air travel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444174427
• Artikelnr.: 39222399

Autorenporträt

Chris Goodall is a highly regarded writer and campaigner on environmental issues. Educated at Cambridge University and Harvard Business School, he is one of the leading global voices on sustainability. He writes regularly for the Guardian, and on his widely followed blog 'Carbon Commentary'. Chris is an award winning writer. Ten Technologies to Save the Planet was listed in the Financial Times Books of the Year. How to Live a Low-Carbon Life won the Clarion Award for non-fiction and was described by the New Scientist as 'the definitive guide for reducing your carbon footprint.'

Inhaltsangabe

: Introduction - what do we mean by 'sustainability'?
: Introduction - what do we mean by 'sustainability'?
: 1) Food
: 1) Food
: 2) Travel
: 2) Travel
: 3) Clothing
: 3) Clothing
: 4) Electricity
: 4) Electricity
: 5) Heating and cooling
: 5) Heating and cooling
: 6) Paper and cardboard
: 6) Paper and cardboard
: 7) Cement and other construction materials, such as steel
: 7) Cement and other construction materials, such as steel
: 8) Consumer electronics
: 8) Consumer electronics
: 9) Air travel
: 9) Air travel
: Concluding remarks
: Concluding remarks