The Converging World: How One Community's Path to Zero Waste Is Helping Save Our Planet - Softcover

Buch 12 von 17: Schumacher Briefings

Pontin, John

 
9780749929596: The Converging World: How One Community's Path to Zero Waste Is Helping Save Our Planet
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0749929596 ISBN 13: 9780749929596
Verlag: Piatkus, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

THE CONVERGING WORLD tells the incredible story of one community's attempt to change their world for the better. Faced with the challenge of making the English village of Chew Magna a 'zero waste' society, Pontin developed a groundbreaking non-profit scheme that twinned them with Tamil Nadu, a poor rural community in southern India. He helped set up a system of wind turbines for Tamil Nadu that would not only reduce the community's reliance on fossil fuels but also provided a local source of sustainable income. The carbon credits produced through this scheme were then sold in Chew Magna to individuals and businesses to offset emissions they cannot yet reduce - all part of a larger local zero-waste effort.
The effects of this scheme have been dramatic and exhilarating - while Chew Magna gets closer to zero waste, Tamil Nadu's carbon emissions and poverty levels are diminishing accordingly. Pontin's story presents a model of action for any individual or community concerned about climate change, environmental damage, social inequality and the plight of the third world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Pontin OBE established JT Group, a property company which has been engaged in socially enlightened property development for over 40 years. He co-founded The Converging World programme five years ago. This is his first book.

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Verlag
Piatkus
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0749929596
ISBN 13 
9780749929596
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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