Sustainable Development

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Toward Sustainable Communities

Toward Sustainable Communities

Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition

The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, … 257 View
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Uniting the "I" and the "We" Affordable Housing in Perpetuity

Uniting the "I" and the "We" Affordable Housing in Perpetuity

From: Resilience Imperative

The unprecedented financial, economic, and social fallout from the credit crunch presents governments with a structural set of problems when it comes to housing. A steep decline in prices in many … ; 28 $2.80 Add
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Voices from the Past--Economic Growth and its Critics

Voices from the Past–Economic Growth and its Critics

From: Escape from Overshoot

In this chapter the author takes the reader through major economic thinkers of the past, and their unique conceptualizations of growth. 24 $2.40 Add
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Water Use in the Home

Water Use in the Home

From: Dry Run

Let’s take a look now at residential water use, something that most of us are quite familiar with. The sources of water use inside the home with almost 60 percent goes for shower, toilet … 17 $1.70 Add
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Wood: Like Never Before

Wood: Like Never Before

From: The New Carbon Architecture

This chapter explores the role of wood in building efficient and modern buildings. ; 16 $1.60 Add
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Zen Water

Zen Water

From: Dry Run

In the green building movement, there is a “hyper-green” approach called restorative or regenerative building, which generates more water and energy than it uses and puts this excess … 9 $0.90 Add