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Author: Sebastián Ureta
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-05-17
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0520386299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction -- Residualism -- Carp, algae, dragon -- Happy coexistence -- Parasitism -- Life against life -- Symbiopower.
Author: Sebastián Ureta
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-05-17
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0520386302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Anthropocene has arrived riding a wave of pollution. From "forever chemicals" to oceanic garbage patches, human-made chemical compounds are seemingly everywhere. Concerned about how these compounds disrupt multiple lives and ecologies, environmental scholars, activists, and affected communities have sought to curb the causes of pollution, focusing especially on the extractive industries. In Worlds of Gray and Green, authors Sebastián Ureta and Patricio Flores challenge us to rethink extraction as ecological practice. Adopting an environmental humanities analytic lens, Ureta and Flores offer a rich ethnographic exploration of the waste produced by Chile's El Teniente, the world's largest underground mine. Deposited in a massive dam, the waste—known as tailings—engages with human and non-human entities in multiple ways through a process the authors call geosymbiosis. Some of these geosymbioses result in toxicity and damage, while others become the basis of lively novel ecologies. A particular kind of power emerges in the process, one that is radically indifferent to human beings but that affects them in many ways. Learning to live with geosymbioses offers a tentative path forward amid ongoing environmental devastation.
Author: Robert L. Thayer
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 1997-03-14
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780471178453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1994 WINNER —PRESIDENT'S AWARD OF EXCELLENCE American Society of Landscape Architects Gray World, Green Heart "This book is about our common landscape surroundings —national, regional, community, and personal —our technological dependence, and our essential bond with the Earth, and with the changing meanings and values we are assigning these realms. It is also about hope and action —hope that we can develop a new vocabulary to make our immediate landscapes not only symbolic of a solution, but part of the actual solution itself." —Robert L. Thayer, Jr. "I was knocked out by this book. It's the first book about the twenty-first century landscape of the United States. It's certainly the first book by a landscape architect that people from many other disciplines are going to read and be moved by, cultural geographers and urbanists and others." —Tony Hiss, author The Experience of Place ". . . in a different league than what most landscape architects write. This is the kind of book that will filter down—it will take a long time, but it will eventually have an impact. It articulates issues in a way that we can take action on them." —Randy Hester, ASLA Professor of Landscape Architecture University of California, Berkeley
Author: Dana Bourland
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2021-01-19
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 164283128X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUS cities are faced with the joint challenge of our climate crisis and the lack of housing that is affordable and healthy. Our housing stock contributes significantly to the changing climate, with residential buildings accounting for 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. US housing is not only unhealthy for the planet, it is putting the physical and financial health of residents at risk. Our housing system means that a renter working 40 hours a week and earning minimum wage cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment in any US county. In Gray to Green Communities, green affordable housing expert Dana Bourland argues that we need to move away from a gray housing model to a green model, which considers the health and well-being of residents, their communities, and the planet. She demonstrates that we do not have to choose between protecting our planet and providing housing affordable to all. Bourland draws from her experience leading the Green Communities Program at Enterprise Community Partners, a national community development intermediary. Her work resulted in the first standard for green affordable housing which was designed to deliver measurable health, economic, and environmental benefits. The book opens with the potential of green affordable housing, followed by the problems that it is helping to solve, challenges in the approach that need to be overcome, and recommendations for the future of green affordable housing. Gray to Green Communities brings together the stories of those who benefit from living in green affordable housing and examples of Green Communities’ developments from across the country. Bourland posits that over the next decade we can deliver on the human right to housing while reaching a level of carbon emissions reductions agreed upon by scientists and demanded by youth. Gray to Green Communities will empower and inspire anyone interested in the future of housing and our planet.
Author: Robert L. Thayer
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGoing beyond the techniques and technology of sustainability, this study aims to provide a theoretical framework for sustainable design within broader cultural and artistic trends. The author examines the conflict between technology and nature in the industrialized world.
Author: Brian Allen Drake
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0820347159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unusual collection of Civil War essays as seen through the lens of noted environmental scholars, this book's provocative historical commentary explores how nature--disease, climate, flora and fauna, etc.--affected the war and how the war shaped Americans' perceptions, understanding, and use of nature.
Author: Michelle Petrick Kempinski
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David T. Gleeson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013-09-02
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1469607573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy? This perplexing question is at the heart of David T. Gleeson's sweeping analysis of the Irish in the Confederate States of America. Taking a broad view of the subject, Gleeson considers the role of Irish southerners in the debates over secession and the formation of the Confederacy, their experiences as soldiers, the effects of Confederate defeat for them and their emerging ethnic identity, and their role in the rise of Lost Cause ideology. Focusing on the experience of Irish southerners in the years leading up to and following the Civil War, as well as on the Irish in the Confederate army and on the southern home front, Gleeson argues that the conflict and its aftermath were crucial to the integration of Irish Americans into the South. Throughout the book, Gleeson draws comparisons to the Irish on the Union side and to southern natives, expanding his analysis to engage the growing literature on Irish and American identity in the nineteenth-century United States.
Author: Gray Malin
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1683357140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom ALONE and TOGETHER to ABOVE and BELOW, Gray Malin’s stunning photography shows off opposites from all over the world Join Gray Malin as he explores the concept of opposites through his eye-popping photographs taken from Antarctica to Africa. Readers will delight in journeying from the barren desert landscape of Namibia (DRY) to the crashing teal waves of the Australian ocean (WET). His bright and colorful photographs hold heaps of kid appeal, making this the perfect gift for satisfying young readers’ sense of imagination and innate desire to learn more about the world. Gray Malin is a photographer best known for his aerial beach photography, which he has transformed into a lighthearted, conversation-igniting, joyful brand. His work’s sense of adventure and escapism has turned him into a household name. He lives in Los Angeles.
