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Cynthia Barnett Blue Revolution (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Blue Revolution : Unmaking America's Water Crisis
- Publication Name
- Blue Revolution
- Title
- Blue Revolution
- Subtitle
- Unmaking America's Water Crisis
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 080700328X
- EAN
- 9780807003282
- ISBN
- 9780807003282
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Genre
- Nature, Political Science
- Topic
- Public Policy / General, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Natural Resources
- Release Date
- 04/09/2012
- Release Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 14.3 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Number of Pages
- 296 Pages
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Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what's now our largest crop--the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our taps, irrigates our food, and produces our electricity. And most don't realize these freshwater sources are in deep trouble. Blue Revolution exposes the truth about the water crisis--driven not as much by lawn sprinklers as by a tradition that has encouraged everyone, from homeowners to farmers to utilities, to tap more and more. But the book also offers much reason for hope. Award-winning journalist Cynthia Barnett argues that the best solution is also the simplest and least expensive: a water ethic for America. Just as the green movement helped build awareness about energy and sustainability, so a blue movement will reconnect Americans to their water, helping us value and conserve our most life-giving resource. Avoiding past mistakes, living within our water means, and turning to "local water" as we do local foods are all part of this new, blue revolution. Reporting from across the country and around the globe, Barnett shows how people, businesses, and governments have come together to dramatically reduce water use and reverse the water crisis. Entire metro areas, such as San Antonio, Texas, have halved per capita water use. Singapore's "closed water loop" recycles every drop. New technologies can slash agricultural irrigation in half: businesses can save a lot of water--and a lot of money--with designs as simple as recycling air-conditioning condensate. The first book to call for a national water ethic, Blue Revolution is also a powerful meditation on water and community in America.
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Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN-10
080700328x
ISBN-13
9780807003282
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038847414
Product Key Features
Book Title
Blue Revolution : Unmaking America's Water Crisis
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / General, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Natural Resources
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Nature, Political Science
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Td223.B37 2012
Reviews
"It's a call to action. Barnett takes us back to the origins of our water in much the same way, with much the same vividness and compassion as Michael Pollan led us from our kitchens to potato fields and feed lots of modern agribusiness."- Los Angeles Times "Barnett does not come off as a Cassandra, shrieking about looming cataclysm and dumping figures over her readers' heads. In Blue Revolution she is part journalist, part mom, part historian, and part optimist, and as a result her text comes off as anything but a polemic."- The Boston Globe "Our future depends on the Blue Revolution that Cynthia Barnett advocates, for, as the ancients knew long before modern science did, 'Water is life.'"- New York Journal of Books "Thorough and packed with data."- Kirkus Reviews "Barnett's clarion call to her fellow citizens imagines an America where it's ethically wrong to waste water. Using compelling stories from around the globe, she shows that America's future depends upon our coming to value water not only in the price we pay, but with profound appreciation for each drop."-Robert Glennon, author of Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do About It "The roots of a new water ethic are found in the practices of millions of individuals, businesses, and other organizations around the world. Barnett shows how good water use practices can go viral, with massive benefits for society and nature. Blue Revolution offers affordable, practical, down-to-earth solutions for America's water crisis."-Stephen R. Carpenter, Director of the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Winner of the 2011 Stockholm Water Prize "The book provides an eye-opening overview of the complexity of our water-use problems and offers optimistic but practical solutions."- Publishers Weekly "As Aldo Leopold is to the land ethic, Cynthia Barnett is to the water ethic. Her important and hopeful new book is rich with stories about innovative water projects around the world, demonstrating that we can choose thrift over waste, water gardens over cement ditches, local projects over mega-industries, smart over incredibly, stubbornly, self-destructively stupid. She calls us to a respectful water use that restores our spirits, even as it creates thriving biocultural communities. If you use water, you should read Blue Revolution ."-Kathleen Dean Moore, coeditor of Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril "Aldo Leopold helped found twentieth-century American environmental thinking with his call for a land ethic. Barnett has done a great service by calling for a twenty-first-century water ethic. She tackles America's illusion of water abundance in the way past thinkers attacked our old ideas about an endless western frontier. Of the new crop of books on water, this one may be the most important."-Fred Pearce, author of When the Rivers Run Dry
Table of Content
Contents Chapter 1 The Illusion of Water Abundance Chapter 2 Reclamation to Restoration Chapter 3 The Netherlands: Deluge, Dams, and the Dutch Miracle Chapter 4 Powerful Thirst Chapter 5 Taproot of the Crisis Chapter 6 The Water-Industrial Complex Chapter 7 Singapore: Of Songbirds and Sewage Chapter 8 The Big Dipper Chapter 9 The Business of Blue Chapter 10 Australia: Dry Down Under Chapter 11 An American Water Ethic Chapter 12 Local Water Acknowledgments Notes Index
Copyright Date
2012
Dewey Decimal
333.9100973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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