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Answers : Sustainability:How can you learn to live more sustainably, without giving up your lifestyle-why should you care?.
Title:
Answers : Sustainability:How can you learn to live more sustainably, without giving up your lifestyle-why should you care?.
Author:
Kourdi, Jeremy.
ISBN:
9789814398916
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (108 pages)
Series:
The Answer Series
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I Understanding the Challenges -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Climate Change -- 3 Economic Growth -- 4 Poverty and the Developing World -- 5 Food Production, Distribution and Waste -- Part II Finding the Answers -- 6 Introduction -- 7 Individuals -- 8 Groups -- 9 Governments -- 10 Technology -- 11 Food -- 12 Economic -- Part III Shaping the Future -- 13 Introduction -- 14 Climate Change - Case Study -- 15 Armchair Activism - Case Study -- 16 Transition Towns and CRAGs - Case Study -- 17 Cap and Trade - Case Study -- 18 Renewable Energy - Case Study -- 19 Supermarkets - Case Study -- About the Author.
Abstract:
How can you learn to live more sustainably, without giving up your lifestyle, and why should you care? We often hear the terms sustainability and sustainable development, but how much do we really understand about what they mean? Is sustainability just climate change in a different package? What's the difference between global warming and climate change? And, most importantly, what can be done about it? As well as explaining some of the most pressing problems, this book answers these questions and looks at how we are progressing. While many of these problems can seem overwhelming when viewed in isolation, many of the answers are, in fact, connected. Quite often the adoption of one solution will solve more than one problem at a time. Crucially, this book also explains that the individual has real power. It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the scale of the problems the world is facing, yet in truth, each one of us has a significant contribution to make in all aspects of our lives.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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