In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not...... more

In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York, New York. Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all, spend far less time in automobiles. Residents of Manhattan- the most densely populated place in North America -rank first in public-transit use and last in percapita greenhouse-gas production, and they consume gasoline at a rate that the country as a whole hasn't matched since the mid-1920s, when the most widely owned car in the United States was the Ford Model T. They are also among the only people in the United States for whom walking is still an important means of daily transportation. These achievements are not accidents. Spreading people thinly across the countryside may make them feel green, but it doesn't reduce the damage they do to the environment. In fact, it increases the damage, while also making the problems they cause harder to see and to address. Owen contends that the environmental problem we face, at the current stage of our assault on the world's nonrenewable resources, is not how to make teeming cities more like the pristine countryside. The problem is how to make other settled places more like Manhattan, whose residents presently come closer than any other Americans to meeting environmental goals that all of us, eventually, will have to come to terms with.

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author david owen format paperback language english publication year 25 08 2011 subject the world ideas culture general interest subject 2 environment ecology...... more

author david owen format paperback language english publication year 25 08 2011 subject the world ideas culture general interest subject 2 environment ecology general interest ean 9781594484841 title green metropolis sku st 1594484848 product category books comics magazines about speedy hen ltd by continuing with this checkout and ordering from speedy hen you are accepting our current terms and conditions details of which can be found by clicking here author biography david owen is a staff write

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In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not...... more

In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York, New York. Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all, spend far less time in automobiles. Residents of Manhattan- the most densely populated place in North America -rank first in public-transit use and last in percapita greenhouse-gas production, and they consume gasoline at a rate that the country as a whole hasn't matched since the mid-1920s, when the most widely owned car in the United States was the Ford Model T. They are also among the only people in the United States for whom walking is still an important means of daily transportation. These achievements are not accidents. Spreading people thinly across the countryside may make them feel green, but it doesn't reduce the damage they do to the environment. In fact, it increases the damage, while also making the problems they cause harder to see and to address. Owen contends that the environmental problem we face, at the current stage of our assault on the world's nonrenewable resources, is not how to make teeming cities more like the pristine countryside. The problem is how to make other settled places more like Manhattan, whose residents presently come closer than any other Americans to meeting environmental goals that all of us, eventually, will have to come to terms with.

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A funky cartoon story board style comic book wallpaper design printed in bright lime green and black on a plain white background.Printed on a slightly...... more

A funky cartoon story board style comic book wallpaper design printed in bright lime green and black on a plain white background.Printed on a slightly textured wallpaper.Additional Product Information:Pattern Repeat:0cmPattern Match:Free Match (Random)Application:Paste The PaperDurability:WashableLightfastness:Good Light FastnessRoll Size:10.05m x 0.52m (11yds x 20.5in) Approx 5.2m² (56sq. feet)Wallpaper Type:Standard WallpaperWallcovering Finish:TexturedPattern Type:Children's

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A shabby chic white polka dots design on a bright lime green background wallpaper.Printed on a slightly textured wallpaper.Additional Product...... more

A shabby chic white polka dots design on a bright lime green background wallpaper.Printed on a slightly textured wallpaper.Additional Product Information:Pattern Repeat:5.9cmPattern Match:Offset (Half Drop Match)Application:Paste The PaperDurability:WashableLightfastness:Good Light FastnessRoll Size:10.05m x 0.52m (11yds x 20.5in) Approx 5.2m² (56sq. feet)Wallpaper Type:Standard WallpaperWallcovering Finish:TexturedPattern Type:Children's

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A pocket guide to seeing and doing more in Hanover, Lower Saxony's green metropolis and home to some of the world's biggest trade fairs. It...... more

A pocket guide to seeing and doing more in Hanover, Lower Saxony's green metropolis and home to some of the world's biggest trade fairs. It features accommodation, restaurant and nightlife listings to suit varied budgets and tastes. It contains maps and illustrated pages to pinpoint some of the best in shopping, sightseeing, eating and drinking.

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A shabby chic white polka dots design on a bright lime green background wallpaper.Printed on a slightly textured wallpaper.Additional Product...... more

A shabby chic white polka dots design on a bright lime green background wallpaper.Printed on a slightly textured wallpaper.Additional Product Information:Pattern Repeat:5.9cmPattern Match:Offset (Half Drop Match)Application:Paste The PaperDurability:WashableLightfastness:Good Light FastnessRoll Size:10.05m x 0.52m (11yds x 20.5in) Approx 5.2m² (56sq. feet)Wallpaper Type:Standard WallpaperWallcovering Finish:TexturedPattern Type:Children's

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A funky cartoon story board style comic book wallpaper design printed in bright lime green and black on a plain white background.Printed on a slightly...... more

A funky cartoon story board style comic book wallpaper design printed in bright lime green and black on a plain white background.Printed on a slightly textured wallpaper.Additional Product Information:Pattern Repeat:0cmPattern Match:Free Match (Random)Application:Paste The PaperDurability:WashableLightfastness:Good Light FastnessRoll Size:10.05m x 0.52m (11yds x 20.5in) Approx 5.2m² (56sq. feet)Wallpaper Type:Standard WallpaperWallcovering Finish:TexturedPattern Type:Children's

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Product DescriptionWith dedication to the heritage of Swiss watchmaking, Stührling Original timepieces appeal to the most discriminating taste at reasonable...... more

Product DescriptionWith dedication to the heritage of Swiss watchmaking, Stührling Original timepieces appeal to the most discriminating taste at reasonable prices. The company has roots dating back to the 1800's when Switzerland emerged as the global leader in watchmaking. Stührling Original remains committed to its mission of preserving the high standards set in Switzerland manufacturing all of their fine timepieces in their Swiss -owned factory! Each and every model conveys an inimitable story with extraordinary style. You'll find heirloom selections for both men and women that even the most astute watch collector will cherish and admire.In the workshops of Stührling Original, the unit specializing in mechanical movements, component selection, assembly, lubrication, adjustment and testing creates horological wonders entirely under vigilant attention of Swiss ownership and supervision. It is these workshops that produce the mechanical engines that are famous for meeting the highest existing criteria in there category. Starting with the main plate, the assembly process is performed in several consecutive stages up until anchoring the balance spring, which sets the watch into motion. Assembling a Stührling Original mechanical automatic movement comprises no less than 30 checkpoints, spread throughout the assembly process. Adjusting the angle of lift of the pallets, centering the balance -spring, poising the balance are just a few examples of these checkpoints; of which all are designed to enhance the performance of each movement. The movement must meet no less than seven criteria, including a mean variation in rate which is the highest standard in the industry in its class.

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The Metropolis Chronograph features a large oblong face with large brushed stainless steel bezel framing a bold dial with chrono sub-dials and date...... more

The Metropolis Chronograph features a large oblong face with large brushed stainless steel bezel framing a bold dial with chrono sub-dials and date display. Stainless steel body with screw-down case back and a silicon rubber strap and steel PVD coated buckle. Water resistant to 50metres.

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A funky and playful wallpaper design of brightly coloured hand prints in red, green, blue, pink, orange and yellow over a plain white background.Printed...... more

A funky and playful wallpaper design of brightly coloured hand prints in red, green, blue, pink, orange and yellow over a plain white background.Printed on a slightly textured wallpaper.Additional Product Information:Pattern Repeat:0cmPattern Match:Free Match (Random)Application:Paste The PaperDurability:WashableLightfastness:Good Light FastnessRoll Size:10.05m x 0.52m (11yds x 20.5in) Approx 5.2m² (56sq. feet)Wallpaper Type:Standard WallpaperWallcovering Finish:TexturedPattern Type:Children's

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A funky and playful wallpaper design of brightly coloured hand prints in red, green, blue, pink, orange and yellow over a plain white background.Printed...... more

A funky and playful wallpaper design of brightly coloured hand prints in red, green, blue, pink, orange and yellow over a plain white background.Printed on a slightly textured wallpaper.Additional Product Information:Pattern Repeat:0cmPattern Match:Free Match (Random)Application:Paste The PaperDurability:WashableLightfastness:Good Light FastnessRoll Size:10.05m x 0.52m (11yds x 20.5in) Approx 5.2m² (56sq. feet)Wallpaper Type:Standard WallpaperWallcovering Finish:TexturedPattern Type:Children's

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A pocket guide to seeing and doing more in Hanover, Lower Saxony's green metropolis and home to some of the world's biggest trade fairs. It...... more

A pocket guide to seeing and doing more in Hanover, Lower Saxony's green metropolis and home to some of the world's biggest trade fairs. It features accommodation, restaurant and nightlife listings to suit varied budgets and tastes. It contains maps and illustrated pages to pinpoint some of the best in shopping, sightseeing, eating and drinking.

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Bell Muni Hi Vis Green Helmet UniSize The Muni takes the mantle of Bell urban helmets to a new level with outstanding functionality, great features, and...... more

Bell Muni Hi Vis Green Helmet UniSize The Muni takes the mantle of Bell urban helmets to a new level with outstanding functionality, great features, and well-mannered design and graphics Visibility is a big part of the Muni story, with a pair of integrated rear flashing lights which come as standard equipment A rear strap allows even more lighting to be added by simply clipping on a rear flasher, while a sleek, seamless perch built into the Blade Visor Plus accommodates the diminutive but bright Blackburn Flea front light Strap adjustments and sizing are nearly automatic thanks to the helmet?s OneStep Plus fit system that?after a couple quick out-of the- box adjustments?snugs to a custom fit every time you ride Carrying over from its predecessors, the Metropolis and Citi, is the Flip Mirror?a super adjustable mirror that clips to special grooves in the visor and stows away neatly when not in use Rounding out the package is a ratcheting buckle which provides easy fitting with its subtle adjustment range Weight:275 grams

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Bell Muni Hi Vis Green Helmet UniSize The Muni takes the mantle of Bell urban helmets to a new level with outstanding functionality, great features, and...... more

Bell Muni Hi Vis Green Helmet UniSize The Muni takes the mantle of Bell urban helmets to a new level with outstanding functionality, great features, and well-mannered design and graphics Visibility is a big part of the Muni story, with a pair of integrated rear flashing lights which come as standard equipment A rear strap allows even more lighting to be added by simply clipping on a rear flasher, while a sleek, seamless perch built into the Blade Visor Plus accommodates the diminutive but bright Blackburn Flea front light Strap adjustments and sizing are nearly automatic thanks to the helmet?s OneStep Plus fit system that?after a couple quick out-of the- box adjustments?snugs to a custom fit every time you ride Carrying over from its predecessors, the Metropolis and Citi, is the Flip Mirror?a super adjustable mirror that clips to special grooves in the visor and stows away neatly when not in use Rounding out the package is a ratcheting buckle which provides easy fitting with its subtle adjustment range Weight:275 grams

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The title contains an obvious irony: the posters on the London Underground have always been an excellent example of public art, free and accessible to the...... more

The title contains an obvious irony: the posters on the London Underground have always been an excellent example of public art, free and accessible to the lumpen proletariat who, as art critic Anthony Blunt pointed out, "are lured into liking the poster before they realise that it is just the kind of thing which they loathe in the exhibition gallery" Sugaring the medicine came to be a defining characteristic of Underground advertising, the pictorial history of which is traced in this excellent volume, from its beginnings in 1908 until 1989. The selection is made by Oliver Green, the first curator of the London Transport Museum, whose love of his subject irrigates the potentially dry textuality of his admirably brief introduction. Green shows how the advertising focus quickly shifted from the mode of transport to the destination in a bid to capture the lucrative leisure hours of Londoners, and how there was also a desire to simply establish goodwill, a concept baffling to a modern business sensibility inured to the idea of profit uber alles. The posters were the brainchild of Frank Pick, a "benevolent style dictator", responsible for establishing the corporate identity still used by London Underground today. Over 200 of them are reproduced here in colour, embracing a diversity of styles including Cubism, Modernism, Vorticism and Futurism, and inviting us to all corners of the metropolis and its surrounds, but most commonly London Zoo (which of course is nowhere near a tube). Well-known artists such as Man Ray and Graham Sutherland contributed designs, as did a to-be-well-known spy novelist Len Deighton, but the stars were artists such as Edward McKnight Kauffer, whose work over many years showed an unsurpassed understanding of the medium. The most recognisable design, though, was Henry C. Beck's diagrammatic map of the tube network, introduced in 1933 and still iconically ubiquitous today. It is a pity Green does not reproduce it to a greater scale (likewise its interesting geographically faithful antecedent), but that is not enough to detract from what is a highly pleasurable travelcard-of- a-trip down memory lane, and a valuable piece of social history.--David Vincent

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Urban fairytale set between modern-day London and the religion-dominated future metropolis of Meanwhile City. The film follows four lost souls divided...... more

Urban fairytale set between modern-day London and the religion-dominated future metropolis of Meanwhile City. The film follows four lost souls divided between the two worlds: Jonathan Preest (Ryan Phillippe), a masked vigilante detective who has vowed revenge on Meanwhile City's leader, Emilia (Eva Green), a beautiful young art student whose difficult relationship with her mother fuels her cynicism and suicidal tendencies, Milo (Sam Riley), a heartbroken thirty-something who remains fixated on his first love, and Peter (Bernard Hill), a deeply religious man who has come to London to search the streets for his missing son.

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Playboy New York is a new fragrance for men inspired by the "trendy metropolis that never sleeps". The notes for the woody fragrance include aldehydes,...... more

Playboy New York is a new fragrance for men inspired by the "trendy metropolis that never sleeps". The notes for the woody fragrance include aldehydes, lime, vinyl accord, green apple, elemi, black pepper, vetiver, tonka bean and vanilla.

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Playboy New York is a new fragrance for men inspired by the "trendy metropolis that never sleeps". The notes for the woody fragrance include aldehydes,...... more

Playboy New York is a new fragrance for men inspired by the "trendy metropolis that never sleeps". The notes for the woody fragrance include aldehydes, lime, vinyl accord, green apple, elemi, black pepper, vetiver, tonka bean and vanilla.

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Playboy New York is a new fragrance for men inspired by the "trendy metropolis that never sleeps". The notes for the woody fragrance include aldehydes,...... more

Playboy New York is a new fragrance for men inspired by the "trendy metropolis that never sleeps". The notes for the woody fragrance include aldehydes, lime, vinyl accord, green apple, elemi, black pepper, vetiver, tonka bean and vanilla.

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