Green metropolis : why living smaller, living closer, and driving less are the keys to sustainability / David Owen.

New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.

357 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Upending the environmentalist viewpoint that urban areas are "anti-green," New Yorker staff writer David Owen argues that sustainability is achieved in areas like New York City while open space, backyard compost heaps, locavorism and high-tech gadgetry like solar panels and triple-paned windows are formulas for wasteful sprawl and green-washed consumerism.

English

October 21, 2009

Includes bibliographical references and index.