Sustainable Communities and Green Lifestyles Consumption and Environmentalism Routledge Studies in Sustainability Series
Auteur : Chitewere Tendai
Sustainable communities raise questions about the compatibility of capitalism and environmentalism and how we can green our way of life in a capitalist economy that values short-term production and consumption over long-term conservation and simple living. If capitalism and its drive towards consumption has produced social and environmental degradation, is it the best medium to identify solutions?
Sustainable Communities and Green Lifestyles examines one ecovillage as it attempts to create a sense of community while reducing its impact on the natural environment. Through extensive participant observation, the book demonstrates how ecovillages are immersed within a larger discourse of class, race, and lifestyle choices, highlighting the inseparability of environmental sustainability and social justice. Sustainable communities are confronted by the contradictions of green consumption and must address social inequality or risk focusing inward on personal green consumerism, creating mere green havens for the few who can afford to live in them. This book, cautious of redirecting environmentalist efforts away from structural solutions and onto personal environmentalism, offers a critical perspective on the challenges of an emerging green lifestyle.
This book offers a critical perspective on the direction of US environmentalism and contributes to debates in environmental studies, anthropology, and urban planning.
Introduction
Community, Environmentalism, Consumption
A Day in the Life of an Ecovillage
Making Community Green
Emerging Green Lifestyles
Conclusion
Tendai Chitewere is Associate Professor at San Francisco State University, USA.
Date de parution : 01-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 08-2017
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de Sustainable Communities and Green Lifestyles :
Mots-clés :
Paleo Diet; Replicable Examples; Brave New Neighborhoods; Green Lifestyles; Climate Change; Healthful Environment; Climate Change and Sustainable Cities; Environmental Sustainability Efforts; Conservation; National Environmental Policy Act; Designing Sustainable Communities; Ecovillage Movement; Developing Sustainable Agriculture and Community; Single Family Detached Homes; Eco-village at Ithaca; Inverted Quarantine; Ecovillages; EcoVillage Project; Environmental Practice; Mumford’s Vision; Environmental economics; Common House; Environmental policy; Public Transportation; Environmental studies; Cohousing Neighborhoods; Garden Communities; Land Debt; Green Technology; CSA Membership; Natural Resources Journal; Early Environmental Movement; Sustainability; Pocket Neighborhood; Sustainable development; Environmental Movement Today; Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously; Solar Panel Installation; environmental anthropology; Growing Obesity Epidemic; environmental justice; Unfair Labor Practices; lifestyle designs; Cohousing Communities; political ecology; Environmental Justice Scholarship; social justice; Good Life; sustainable consumption