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Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability

Book by David Owen · 2 quotes · Environmentalism, Sustainability, Urban Design

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“Modern interest in environmentalism is driven by a yearning to protect what we haven't ruined already, to conserve what we haven't used up, to restore as much as possible of what we're destroyed, and to devise ways of reconfiguring our lives so that civilization as we know it can be sustained through our children's lifetimes and beyond.”

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“Stacking and concentrating dwellings and businesses is the easiest way to make communities truly efficient, and it is the only way to achieve deep reductions in per-capita energy use and carbon output in large, prosperous populations...”

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