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The Renewable City: a Comprehensive Guide to an Urban Revolution

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This book is a manual for a revolution in the making. It is a guide to the impending move away from fossil and nuclear power and other forms of unsustainable energy generation, to a renewable and sustainable power base for urban communities, whether cities, towns or villages. This book focuses on the most fundamental form of sustainable urban development: the Renewable City, and shows how it can helps solve a vexing modern conundrum. As a historical phenomenon the use of oil, gas and coal is extremely short-lived: a mere blink of an eye at a little over 1 per cent of a total history of urban living of under 10,000 years. Yet today’s global urban civilisation is almost entirely based on it. As a result, the fossil fuel economy is fragile: not only does our dependency on it pose a massive security risk and endanger our survival, it also lies at the root of the vast majority of urban sustainability problems. Fresh water depletion, air pollution, widespread human fatalities, all can be directly linked to the excessive use of these dirty energy sources. Climate change, triggered predominantly by fossil fuel combustion, only reinforces the profound questions the impending peak of petroleum production raises about the global urban system’s ability to survive. The fossil disseas is a complexglobal pandemic. In the face of global and national collusion in putting off the inevitable, some urban communities and city leaders have found it easier to dissent radically, not only with words but in deeds. For limited periods at a time they can remain relatively sheltered from pressure from the main energy interests, but they too, risk becoming lost in symbolic or therapeutic agendas, surrogates for real action, thereby even delaying necessary change. For example, while using less energy, the vague staple call of most municipal conservation and efficiency drives, is indeed crucial, energy use in itself is not the ultimate challenge, rather it is the destructive incineration of fossil fuels or the unleashing of nuclear power to produce it. This guide is intended to help overcome this brief and dramatic historical phase, and to show how to build the Renewable City.rnThe book consists of six chapters, each focusing on a particular theme and each capable of being read independently. The text ranges from a broad introduction to the issues to a set of checklist type instructions on how to transform a community in preparation for the renewable energy revolution. From the fundamental arguments covered in its first half, in the second the book advances to offer increasingly specific advice and guidance, suggestions and data, ending with provision of detailed frameworks for policy and action.rnThe Renewable City is written about and for urban communities, cities, towns, villages, neighbourhoods, citizen groups, people, that pin their hopes fro greater autonomy and prosperity on a broad, systematic and targeted application of renewable energy and energy efficiency principles. It is devoted to cities that wish to rely increasingly on renewable energy. But this is not a call for institutional, cultural and political change in the interest of technology substitution alone. Renewable Cities are also cities of waether lovers, they are designed to respond to and benefit from the local climate, air movement, sunshine and precipation, they harvest local water and energy resources while wasting little of either. rn

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090100851

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620.98 DRO r

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John Wiley & Sons : England., 2006

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xii, 309 p.

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Indonesia

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620.98 DRO r

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