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Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent lightbulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: everything you've been told about being green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car is a dangerous fantasy. We are consumers, and we like to consume greenly and efficiently. But David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross-purposes to our true goal: living sustainably while caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problems, turns out to be part of the problem--we have little trouble turning increases in efficiency into increases in consumption.David Owen's elegant narrative, filled with fascinating information and anecdotes, takes you through the history of energy and the quest for efficiency. Owen introduces the listener to some of the smartest people working on solving our energy problems. He details the arguments of efficiency's proponents and its antagonists--and in the process overturns most traditional wisdom about being green.This is a book that will change how you look at the world. Scientific geniuses will not invent our way out of the energy and economic crisis we're in. We already have the technology and knowledge we need to live sustainably. But will we do it? That is the conundrum.

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After Green Metropolis, a revelatory exposition of why urban life is 'green, ' Owen---brisk, funny, elucidating, and blunt---illuminates a wide spectrum of environmental misperceptions in this even more paradox-laden inquiry.-- ""Booklist Starred Review"" ""After Green Metropolis, a revelatory exposition of why urban life is 'green, ' Owen--brisk, funny, elucidating, and blunt--illuminates a wide spectrum of environmental misperceptions in this even more paradox-laden inquiry."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""Clear, funny, graceful, and concise."" -- ""James Fallows, author of Postcards from Tomorrow Square"" ""Patrick Lawlor's gruff tones and energetic pace prove to be a perfect match for an author who is a curmudgeonly comedic contrarian."" -- ""AudioFile""

"After Green Metropolis, a revelatory exposition of why urban life is 'green, ' Owen---brisk, funny, elucidating, and blunt---illuminates a wide spectrum of environmental misperceptions in this even more paradox-laden inquiry.-- ""Booklist Starred Review"" ""After Green Metropolis, a revelatory exposition of why urban life is 'green, ' Owen--brisk, funny, elucidating, and blunt--illuminates a wide spectrum of environmental misperceptions in this even more paradox-laden inquiry."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""Clear, funny, graceful, and concise."" -- ""James Fallows, author of Postcards from Tomorrow Square"" ""Patrick Lawlor's gruff tones and energetic pace prove to be a perfect match for an author who is a curmudgeonly comedic contrarian."" -- ""AudioFile"""

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David Owen is a staff writer for the New Yorker and a contributing editor to Golf Digest. He is the author of several books, including The First National Bank of Dad, The Chosen One, My Usual Game, and The Making of the Masters. He and his family live in Northwest Connecticut. Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist several times and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has won a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, numerous Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews, and multiple Editors' Picks, Top 10, and Year's Best lists. He is the only male audiobook narrator in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To relax in his spare time, Patrick runs marathons. Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist several times and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has won a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, numerous Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews, and multiple Editors' Picks, Top 10, and Year's Best lists. He is the only male audiobook narrator in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To relax in his spare time, Patrick runs marathons.

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