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Informationen zum Autor Susan Subak has twenty years of experience as an environmental analyst studying the causes and consequences of climate change and as a contractor and researcher in the United States and Europe with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of East Anglia, and the Stockholm Environment Institute, among others. She is the author of Rescue and Flight: American Relief Workers Who Defied the Nazis (Nebraska, 2010). Klappentext "Susan Subak explores various low-carbon locations across America, calculating and comparing emissions data to understand what unites these different types of American neighborhoods, as well as what sets them apart, and how we can use this information to work towards a lower-carbon future"-- Zusammenfassung Uses previously untapped sources to discover and explore various low-carbon locations. In Washington DC! Chicago suburbs! lower Manhattan! and Amish settlements in Lancaster County! Pennsylvania! Susan Subak examines the built and social environment to discern the characteristics that contribute to lower greenhouse-gas emissions. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction 1. Founding Mitigator: George Washington 2. Carbon Dissenters: The Amish 3. Urban Families: Washington DC 4. The Greenest Suburb: Berwyn, Illinois 5. College, Commercial Carbon: The New School, New York City 6. Becoming Five Tons: Anywhere, USA Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
