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Arthur C. Nelson • Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030 (Metropolitan Planning + Design)
The history of energy extraction is etched into Appalachian hollows.
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
A key environmental problem is that current systems of housing and transport are unsustainable. In American suburbia, houses are large and costly to build. They are energy inefficient and cannot be kept cool without air conditioning. They have large lawns, often with ecologically destructive landscaping. Because of the distances and the land-use pa
... See moreJuliet Schor • A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century (Open Media Series)
"In Manhattan, there is a 2,500-megawatt-per-square mile demand,"
Scientific American Editors • Designing the Urban Future: Smart Cities
dirty electron will run your lights just as well as a clean one. As a result, without some policy intervention—such as a price on carbon, or standards that require a certain volume of zero-carbon electrons in the marketplace—there’s no guarantee that the company that invests in sending you clean electrons will actually make money.