This Place on Earth 2001 : Guide to a Sustainable Northwest - Softcover

Durning, Alan Thein

9781886093119: This Place on Earth 2001 : Guide to a Sustainable Northwest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886093113 ISBN 13: 9781886093119

Publisher: Northwest Environment Watch, 2001

When is car insurance like a pizza?
How do Skinny streets help salmon?
Why should phantom tollbooths haunt rush hour?
Where’s the ideal spot for Granny to have a flat?
And what does all this have to do with aikido?

Aikido is the martial art that applies the principle of leverage to greatest effect. It is also the organizing metaphor for This Place on Earth 2001: Guide to a Sustainable Northwest. This slim, lively volume-first in a new Northwest Environment Watch series -takes on a weighty question: how can the Northwest create a way of life that will last?

Part report, part reflection, This Place on Earth 2001 connects the dots: between costs and congestion, streets and streams, granny flats and growth. Along the way, it takes readers on a fascinating tour with some of the Northwest’s top “aikido masters,” who are -block by block, hearing by hearing, forest district by forest district – fashioning a new Northwest.

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About the Author:

Alan Thein Durning is founder and executive director of Northwest Environment Watch and author of award-winning books such as This Place on Earth, and How Much Is Enough? Formerly senior researcher at Worldwatch Institute, he lectures widely and lives with his wife and children in Seattle.

Northwest Environment Watch is an independent, not-for-profit research and communication center based in Seattle, Washington. Its mission is to foster an environmentally sound economy and way of life in the Pacific Northwest.

Review:

"Rather than harangue, these writers concentrate on bright, persuasive arguments for fixing what's wrong." -- Seattle Times

"[NEW books] are well researched, optimistic and written in a light, knowing and easy to digest manner. -- Tidepool: News For The Rain Forest Coast

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