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Practicing Sustainability
. Ed(S): Madhavan, Guru; Oakley, Barbara; Green, David; Koon, David; Low, Penny
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Paperback. This book gathers chefs, poets, music directors, pastors, architects, artists and filmmakers, as well as scientific leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, executives, policy makers and contrarians, to explore sustainability and the role that each of us can play. Editor(s): Madhavan, Guru; Oakley, Barbara; Green, David; Koon, David; Low, Penny. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCM; KJM; MBN; PDZ; RNU; TH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 433.
Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently—much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively “green”—and sometimes contradictory—practices that can each make society only more or less sustainable. In Practicing Sustainability, chefs, poets, music directors, evangelical pastors, skyscraper architects, artists, filmmakers, as well as scientific leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, business executives, policy makers, and the contrarians, shed light on our understanding of sustainability and the role that each of us can play. Each contributor addresses what sustainability means, what ... Read more
Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently—much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively “green”—and sometimes contradictory—practices that can each make society only more or less sustainable. In Practicing Sustainability, chefs, poets, music directors, evangelical pastors, skyscraper architects, artists, filmmakers, as well as scientific leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, business executives, policy makers, and the contrarians, shed light on our understanding of sustainability and the role that each of us can play. Each contributor addresses what sustainability means, what ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781489988980
SKU
V9781489988980
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About . Ed(S): Madhavan, Guru; Oakley, Barbara; Green, David; Koon, David; Low, Penny
Guruprasad Madhavan (Editor) is a program officer at the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council—collectively known as the National Academies—in Washington, DC. Barbara Oakley (Editor) is an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and a former vice-president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. ... Read more
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