Fuel: Alphabet City Magazine 13

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ISBN 10: 0262113252 / ISBN 13: 9780262113250

Editore: -, 2008

Fuel: Alphabet City Magazine 13 This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Codice articolo 7719-9780262113250

Riassunto:

Writers and artists imagine the transition to a carbon-free future and the radical reinvention of energy that would make it possible.

How will the world work in the pos-toil, post-coal future? Our transition could take the form of disastrous collapses in economic, political, and economic systems—or of a radical reinvention of energy. We could relapse into a new Dark Ages, or we could shift to a new economic model and international order that's not based on (the appropriately named) "fossil" fuels but on renewable energy. No matter what, global warming and resource scarcity will force us to do something. To avert environmental and economic disaster, we'll have to think beyond the weekly fluctuations in the price of gasoline and consider larger matters. In Fuel, writers and artists imagine the transition to a carbon-free future: an architect plans "Velo-city," a network of elevated bikeways; a designer models a perfectly internalized, tail-chasing energy system; an urbanist examines the new "Oil Cities" in Dubai and Saudi Arabia; a photographer documents the social and environmental damage done by the oil industry in Nigeria; and an architect proposes that oil rigs be turned into sanctuaries for marine and avian wildlife. Reading Fuel, we read our current energy moment in the broader context of a range of possible futures.

Informazioni sull'autore:

John Knechtel is Director of Alphabet City Media in Toronto.

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Titolo: Fuel: Alphabet City Magazine 13
Casa editrice: -
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good