ISBN: 9781594485619 - the conundrum: how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our energy and climate problems worse (37 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good. From the acclaimed New Yorker staff writer, a razor-sharp indictment of our efficiency-forward approach to sustainable living. Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about living green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car are dangerous fantasies. We are consumers, and we like to consume green and efficiently. But David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross purposes to our true goal - living sustainably and caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problems, turns out to be part of the problem. Efforts to improve efficiency and increase sustainable development only exacerbate the problems they are meant to solve, more than negating the environmental gains. We have little trouble turning increases in efficiency into increases in consumption. David Owen's The Conundrum is an elegant nonfiction narrative filled with fascinating information and anecdotes takes you through the history of energy and the quest for efficiency. This is a book about the environment that will change how you look at the world. We should not be waiting for some geniuses to invent our way out of the energy and economic crisis we're in. We already have the technology and knowledge we need to live sustainably. But will we do it? That is the conundrum. …

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. From the acclaimed New Yorker staff writer, a razor-sharp indictment of our efficiency-forward approach to sustainable living. Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about living green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car are dangerous fantasies. We are consumers, and we like to consume green and efficiently. But David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross purposes to our true goal - living sustainably and caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problems, turns out to be part of the problem. Efforts to improve efficiency and increase sustainable development only exacerbate the problems they are meant to solve, more than negating the environmental gains. We have little trouble turning increases in efficiency into increases in consumption. David Owen's The Conundrum is an elegant nonfiction narrative filled with fascinating information and anecdotes takes you through the history of energy and the quest for efficiency. This is a book about the environment that will change how you look at the world. We should not be waiting for some geniuses to invent our way out of the energy and economic crisis we're in. We already have the technology and knowledge we need to live sustainably. But will we do it? That is the conundrum. …

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Softcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Outlines a practical contrarian manifesto on modern environmental issues that challenges perceptions that current practices will be sufficient, revealing facts and ways to apply initially counter-intuitive but ultimately beneficial methods for securing asustainable environment. Former library book. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. original edition. 272 pages. 7.25x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. 272 pages. ex-library book, Look out for David Owen's next book,Where the Water Goes.The Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency and the real pat h to sustainability.Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bu lbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about living gree n is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car are dangerous fantasies. We are consumers, and we like to consume green and efficiently. But D avid Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross purposes to our tru e goal - living sustainably and caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problem s, turns out to be part of the problem. Efforts to improve efficiency and increa se sustainable development only exacerbate the problems they are meant to solve, more than negating the environmental gains. We have little trouble turning incr eases in efficiency into increases in consumption.David Owen's The Conund rum is an elegant nonfiction narrative filled with fascinating information and a necdotes takes you through the history of energy and the quest for efficiency. T his is a book about the environment that will change how you look at the world. We should not be waiting for some geniuses to invent our way out of the energy a nd economic crisis we're in. We already have the technology and knowledge we nee d to live sustainably. But will we do it?That is the conundrum. …

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