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Author | : David Vogel |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691196176 |
This first comprehensive look at California's history of environmental leadership shows why the Golden State has been at the forefront in setting new environmental standards, often leading the rest of the nation.
Author | : Richard A. Walker |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2009-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295989734 |
Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman Award Finalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008). The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis, stitched from fields, farms and woodlands, mines, creeks, and wetlands. In The Country in the City, Richard Walker tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place. The Bay Area’s civic landscape has been fought over acre by acre, an arduous process requiring popular mobilization, political will, and hard work. Its most cherished environments--Mount Tamalpais, Napa Valley, San Francisco Bay, Point Reyes, Mount Diablo, the Pacific coast--have engendered some of the fiercest environmental battles in the country and have made the region a leader in green ideas and organizations. This book tells how the Bay Area got its green grove: from the stirrings of conservation in the time of John Muir to origins of the recreational parks and coastal preserves in the early twentieth century, from the fight to stop bay fill and control suburban growth after the Second World War to securing conservation easements and stopping toxic pollution in our times. Here, modern environmentalism first became a mass political movement in the 1960s, with the sudden blooming of the Sierra Club and Save the Bay, and it remains a global center of environmentalism to this day. Green values have been a pillar of Bay Area life and politics for more than a century. It is an environmentalism grounded in local places and personal concerns, close to the heart of the city. Yet this vision of what a city should be has always been informed by liberal, even utopian, ideas of nature, planning, government, and democracy. In the end, green is one of the primary colors in the flag of the Left Coast, where green enthusiasms, like open space, are built into the fabric of urban life. Written in a lively and accessible style, The Country in the City will be of interest to general readers and environmental activists. At the same time, it speaks to fundamental debates in environmental history, urban planning, and geography.
Author | : California. Division of Forestry |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1949 |
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Author | : California League of Conservation Voters |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
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Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
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Author | : Gareth Doherty |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2017-02-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0520285026 |
"This highly innovative book is a multidisciplinary study of green and its significance from multiple perspectives: aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social. It is centered on the Kingdom of Bahrain, the smallest and greenest of the Arab states in the Persian Gulf, where green has a long and deep history appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous--and a radical contrast to the hot, hostile desert. As is the case with cities around the world, green is often celebrated as a counter to gray urban environments, yet green has not always been good for cities. To have the color green manifested in arid environments is often in direct conflict with 'green' from an environmental point of view; this paradox is at the heart of the book. Given the resources required to maintain green in arid areas, including cities, the provision of green often bears significant environmental costs. In arid environments such as Bahrain, this contradiction becomes extreme and even unsustainable. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Gareth Doherty explores the landscapes of Bahrain where green represents a plethora of implicit human values and lives in dialectical tension with other culturally and environmentally significant colors and hues. The book's six chapters focus on: Blue, Red, Date-palm Green, Grass Green, Beige, and White. Implicit in his book is the argument that concepts of color and object are mutually defining and thus a discussion about green becomes a discussion about the creation of space and place"--
Author | : California. Fire Prevention Committee |
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Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Fire prevention |
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Author | : Richard Maxwell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-05-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0199939284 |
You will never look at your cell phone, TV, or computer the same way after reading this book. Greening the Media not only reveals the dirty secrets that hide inside our favorite electronic devices; it also takes apart the myths that have pushed these gadgets to the center of our lives. Marshaling an astounding array of economic, environmental, and historical facts, Maxwell and Miller debunk the idea that information and communication technologies (ICT) are clean and ecologically benign. The authors show how the physical reality of making, consuming, and discarding them is rife with toxic ingredients, poisonous working conditions, and hazardous waste. But all is not lost. As the title suggests, Maxwell and Miller dwell critically on these environmental problems in order to think creatively about ways to solve them. They enlist a range of potential allies in this effort to foster greener media--from green consumers to green citizens, with stops along the way to hear from exploited workers, celebrities, and assorted bureaucrats. Ultimately, Greening the Media rethinks the status of print and screen technologies, opening new lines of historical and social analysis of ICT, consumer electronics, and media production.
Author | : John D. Graham |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1800880138 |
We may be standing on the precipice of a revolution in propulsion not seen since the internal combustion engine replaced the horse and buggy. The anticipated proliferation of electric cars will influence the daily lives of motorists, the economies of different countries and regions, urban air quality and global climate change. If you want to understand how quickly the transition is likely to occur, and the factors that will influence the predictions of the pace of the transition, this book will be an illuminating read.
Author | : Ann Carlson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2019-05-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108421520 |
Examines the successes and failures of the Clean Air Act in order to lay a foundation for future energy policy.