Green Community

The health of our planet and out selves depends on how we plan, design, and construct the world between out buildings. Out increasing dependence on fossil fuels over the last century has given us unprecedented individual mobility and comfort, but the consequences are clear. Climate change, sprawl, and reliance on foreign oil are just a few of the challenges we face in designing new--and adapting existing--communities to be greener. Based on the National Building Museum's Green Community exhibition, this book is a collection of thought-provoking essays that illuminate the connections among personal health, comunity health, and our planet's health. Green Community brings together diverse experts, each of whom has a unique approach to sustainable planning, design, politics, and construction. Green Community is a rich, fact-filled, and up-to-date collection of today's critical environmental issues and how to deal with them. It is invalubale. Roberta Brandes Gratz author of The Living City: Thinking Smell in a Big Way and Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown. Green Community is a thoughtful, provocative collection of essays that explore a dizzying range of concepts that are