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Good Energy: Renewable Power and the Design of Everyday Life
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Good Energy: Renewable Power and the Design of Everyday Life
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Barnes and Noble
Good Energy: Renewable Power and the Design of Everyday Life
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Thirty-five projects from around the world demonstrate that clean, healthy energy is within reach in every sector and field. Projects include homes at all scales and for all climates, schools, parks, and offices, and even power plants. Harmonizing nature, technology, and space, each project in
shows how design can improve planetary well-being while producing cost savings and creating green jobs.
includes over 200
photographs showing each project in stunning detail, accompanied by fascinating and informative essays. The book includes a foreword by artist and landscape designer Walter Hood, founder of Hood Design Studio, and an interview with Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering and a cofounder of the Solutions Project.
• Solar Strand, a solar power plant that is also a community mecca, in Buffalo, New York• Zero Carbon House, one of the world's most sustainable homes, in Birmingham, England• Avasara Academy, a school that inspires pride among its young women students, in Lavale, India