The Carbon Efficient City

<p><i>The Carbon Efficient City</i> shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for reducing carbon emissions in our cities: standardized measurement frameworks that support innovation regulatory alignment reducing consumption reuse and restoration focus on neighborhoods providing spaces for nature use of on-site life cycles for water and energy coordination of regional transportation and emphasis on solutions that delight people.<br/><br/>Although climate change is recognized as an urgent concern local and national governments nonprofits and private interests often work at cross purposes in attempting to address it. <i>The Carbon Efficient City</i>'s focus on concrete achievable measures that can be implemented in a market economy gives it broad appeal to professionals and engaged citizens across the political spectrum.<br/><br/>Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg3h0-fhYyA</p>