Living Green

This book features communities that explicitly integrate social and human factors into their design and planning, and examines the impact living in these communities has on personal health, well-being and the capacity for pursuing sustainability. It includes interviews with developers, architects and residents, highlighting personal ideals and efforts to pursue a sustainable lifestyle. The book's three parts explore: how community is central to sustainable living in everything from co-housing to communes; communities that specifically integrate green building design components with social justice politics such as racism, poverty and urban alienation; and, housing options geared toward mainstream living that offer individual choices to those who wish to live green. Written for those desiring to hear a good news story, "Living Green" will appeal to individuals and communities living a sustainable lifestyle, green building activists, and academics in sociology, planning and design, architecture and environmental fields.

ISBN 0865716471   Pages 198 ISBN13 9780865716476 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher New Society Publishers   Weight (grammes) 408 Imprint New Society Publishers   Published in Gabriola Island Format Paperback   Height (mm) 230 Publication date 06 Jul 2009   Width (mm) 185 DEWEY 307.770973   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Living Green - an Introduction		1
		The Relationship between People and their Built Environments		3
		Meanings of Home		4
		The Green Building Movement		6
		Linking Communities and Built Environments		10
		Highlighting the Social in the Three Es of Sustainabiliry		13
Ch. 1		Back to the Land		19
		Twin Oaks: An Experiment in Communal Living		21
		Living Green at Twin Oaks		25
		Ouje-Bougoumou		29
		Living Green at Ouje-Bougournou		33
		Maintaining Community through Sustainable Design + Interaction		36
Ch. 2		Living Green through Cohousing		39
		Cohousing as Green Living		40
		Planning and Building Together		41
		Community Living as Green Living		46
		Actions that Sustain		54
Ch. 3		An Alternative for Los Angeles		59
		Beginnings		61
		Intentional Community at LA Ecovillage		65
		Car Free in LA		69
		A Permaculture Approach to Social Activism		72
		Community Outreach and Connection		74
		Cultivating Action		77
Ch. 4		Greening Grey		79
		Social Housing: Historical Roots, Current Vision		83
		Chez Soi at Green Energy Benny Farm		84
		Living Green at Chez Soi		88
		Sustainable Aging in Community		91
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