Green Collar Economy How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones
Publisher Comments Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate, but when we look closer, the connection becomes unmistakable.
In The Green Collar Economy, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment. The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, and coal all fast-diminishing nonrenewable resources. As supplies disappear, the price of energy climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. With costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. Not only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases they create overheat the atmosphere. As the headlines make clear, total climate chaos looms over us. The bottom line: we cannot continue with business as usual. We cannot drill and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas.
Instead, Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S. economy out of its present death spiral.
Rachel Carson's 1963 landmark book Silent Spring was the pivotal ecological examination of the last century. Now, rising above the impenetrable debate over the environment and the economy, Van Jones's The Green Collar Economy delivers a timely and essential call to action for this new century. Hardcover
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Leed-New Construction Project Management (Greensource) by Vijaya Yellamraju
Publisher Comments A One-Stop Guide to Managing LEED-New Construction Projects This GreenSource book explains, step by step, how to integrate LEED-New Construction (NC) rating system requirements into the building design and construction processes. Project planning, goals, coordination, implementation, and documentation are covered in detail. LEED-New Construction Project Management provides a tested framework for taking a project from inception to successful certification and shows you how to master the tools to make the process more efficient. Three in-depth case studies covering new commercial building construction, major renovations, and a portfolio of buildings highlight the strategies presented in the book. LEED-New Construction Project Management covers: The LEED rating system and LEED-NC credit categories The project management process Project definition and goal setting Design phase integration Construction phase implementation The LEED process: adaptability, applicability, and best practices Future trends Credit implementations: sustainable sites; water efficiency; energy and atmosphere; materials and resources; indoor environmental quality; innovation in design Your price $104.50 New Hardcover
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Best Green Careers: Explore Opportunities in the Rapid Growing Field! by Jeffrey Dinsmore
Synopsis The target audience for Best Green Jobs would range from recent college graduates to anyone looking to make a career switch into the rapidly-growing field of green and green-collar jobs. The book will map out a strategy for new graduates to forge a long-lasting career in the green sector while helping experienced workers understand how they can translate skills they have already learned into positions within this exciting field.
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Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy by Charles Derber
Publisher Comments While society turns to technology solutions to solve global warming, Charles Derber in this unique and uplifting book shows that the real and achievable solution is to be found...in society itself. Why, Derber asks, is society not taking the urgent actions needed to save itself when much of the technology already exists?The answer lies in overcoming deep yet profound denial and hopelessness. In the first book to intensively explore the denial regime surrounding global warming Derber moves beyond the science deniers to explore the personal denial most of us feel, consciously and subconsciously.Global Warming-capitalism's time bomb-can and must be solved through both individual and institutional change. People have more power than they think. The solution requires individuals to release themselves from the bonds of hopelessness and denial; to transform themselves toward green lifestyles; and to pursue the pathways currently available to work with: national and local governments, schools, churches, corporations, and other institutions. Derber passionately describes and models these personally transforming changes from his own life and from the lives of neighbors, friends, and colleagues who have discovered the joys of becoming part of the solution and have learned to live powerful, democratic, change-minded lives.Listen to an interview with Charles Derber on Santa Fe public radio: Santa Fe public radio interviewWatch Charles Derber speak at an August 19, 2010 talk at the Somerville Public Library in Boston: Climate Change talk Your price $56.50 New Trade Paperback
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Paths to a Green World The Political Economy of the Global Environment by Jennifer Clapp
Publisher Comments This comprehensive and accessible text fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in the developing world. Moving beyond the usual academic emphasis on international agreements and institutions, it strives to integrate debates within the real world of global policy and the academic world of theory. Your price $7.95 Used Trade Paperback
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Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots by Kevin Danaher
Publisher Comments After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats. New business models that save or restore natural resources are critical. But how can we translate that insight into more sustainable practices?
Building the Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, and unexamined routines dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement.
Drawing on their extensive experience at Global Exchange and elsewhere, the authors also:
- Lay out strategies for a more successful green movement
- Describe how communities have protected their victories from legal and political challenges
- Provide key resources for local activists
- Include conversations with Rocky Anderson, Lois Gibbs, Anuradha Mittal, David Morris, Michael Shuman, and other activists and leaders.
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Ethical Markets Growing the Green Economy by Hazel Henderson
Publisher Comments With insight, clarity, warmth, and enthusiasm Hazel Henderson announces the mature presence of the green economy. Mainstream media and big business interests have sidelined its emergence and evolution to preserve the status quo. Throughout Ethical Markets Henderson weaves statistics and analysis with profiles of entrepreneurs, environmentalists, scientists, and professionals. Based on interviews conducted on her longstanding public television series, these profiles celebrate those who have led the highly successful growth of green businesses around the world. Ethical Markets is the ultimate sourcebook on today's thriving green economy. Trade Paperback
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Green Roof Systems A Guide To Planning by Susan Weiler
Publisher Comments The designer's one-stop resource to green roofs that merges landscape and architectureGreen Roof Systems offers substantive and technical information on living green roofs and landscapes over structure. It goes beyond a mere overview of the green roof movement by providing reliable advice on building ecologically practical, accessible, and useful open spaces over structures. From planning and collaboration to successfully handling the technical aspects of green roof systems, components, and applications-this single-source reference: Explains the environmental, social, and economic benefits of turning the underutilized surfaces of roofs into multifunctional systems Features a comprehensive, system-based approach to understanding, designing, building, and maintaining green roofs in an urban environment Examines the ins-and-outs of green roofs from a technical perspective Offers design and technological material alongside issues surrounding urban design and planning, engineering, architectural and landscape architectural considerations, and stormwater management
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Green Collar Economy by Van Jones
Publisher Comments “Steadily—by redefining green—Jones is making sure that our planet and our people will not just survive but also thrive in a clean-energy economy.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
A New York Times bestseller, The Green Collar Economy by award-winning human rights activist and environmental leader Van Jones delivers a much-needed economic and environmental solution to todays two most critical problems. With a revised introduction and new afterword by the author—a man who counsels President Barack Obama on environmental policy—The Green Collar Economy and Jones have been highly praised by a multitude of leaders and legislators, including Al Gore, Senator Tom Daschle, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Van Jones was named one of “The Worlds 100 Most Influential People of 2009” by Time magazine, and with The Green Collar Economy he offers a wise, necessary, and eminently achievable plan for saving the earth and rescuing working class Americans. Your price $9.98 Used Trade Paperback
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Green Barbarians by Ellen Sandbeck
Publisher Comments Sandbeck preaches a return to a more primitive way of lifeand#8212;a life with more joy and fewer household products. andlt;Iandgt;Green Barbariansandlt;/Iandgt; demonstrates that by mustering a bit of courage and relying less on many modern conveniences, we can live happier, safer, more ecologically and economically responsible lives.. Your price $18.99 New Trade Paperback
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