The Five-Ton Life: Carbon, America, and the Culture That May Save Us

Author:   Susan Subak
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
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9780803296886


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 August 2018
Format:   Paperback
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The Five-Ton Life: Carbon, America, and the Culture That May Save Us


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Author:   Susan Subak
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:  

9780803296886


ISBN 10:   0803296886
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 August 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

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A wonderfully crafted book. While there are a zillion books produced on climate change, this book fills a crucial niche in terms of both content and style. Looking at cases of existing low carbon culture in the United States is very useful. It draws attention to various ways of living and conducting one's life. It's a great, very readable addition. -Johannes Stripple, editor of Governing the Climate: New Approaches to Rationality, Power, and Politics -- Johannes Stripple Susan Subak focuses on looking to the past for a way forward into the future. It is a very interesting way to approach climate change and I think it is unique. -Brett Favaro, author of The Carbon Code: How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero -- Brett Favaro


Susan Subak focuses on looking to the past for a way forward into the future. It is a very interesting way to approach climate change and I think it is unique. -Brett Favaro, author of The Carbon Code: How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero -- Brett Favaro A wonderfully crafted book. While there are a zillion books produced on climate change, this book fills a crucial niche in terms of both content and style. Looking at cases of existing low carbon culture in the United States is very useful. It draws attention to various ways of living and conducting one's life. It's a great, very readable addition. -Johannes Stripple, editor of Governing the Climate: New Approaches to Rationality, Power, and Politics -- Johannes Stripple


A wonderfully crafted book. While there are a zillion books produced on climate change, this book fills a crucial niche in terms of both content and style. Looking at cases of existing low carbon culture in the United States is very useful. It draws attention to various ways of living and conducting one's life. It's a great, very readable addition. --Johannes Stripple, editor of Governing the Climate: New Approaches to Rationality, Power, and Politics -- (09/16/2017) Susan Subak focuses on looking to the past for a way forward into the future. It is a very interesting way to approach climate change and I think it is unique. --Brett Favaro, author of The Carbon Code: How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero -- (09/16/2017)


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Susan Subak has twenty years of experience as an environmental analyst studying the causes and consequences of climate change and as a contractor and researcher in the United States and Europe with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of East Anglia, and the Stockholm Environment Institute, among others. She is the author of Rescue and Flight: American Relief Workers Who Defied the Nazis (Nebraska, 2010).  

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