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(Riverhead Books; 357 pages; $25.95) Over the past few years, the words "green" and "sustainable" have been applied to nearly everything. In addition to hybrid vehicles and compact fluorescent bulbs, you can easily find such items as "green" kitchen cabinets and "sustainable" eye shadow. When ...

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gbNYC Book Club: David Owen's "Green Metropolis" Singles Out NYC as Standard-Setter
N/A — ... has long been a point of pride for those of us who bother being proud of that sort of thing. Owen's greater point -- as summarized in Margaret Mittelbach's review of "Green Metropolis" in the San Francisco Chronicle -- is that the secret of New York's efficiency lies less in New Yorkers than in New York itself. "The lesson to be learned from New York City, [Owen] says, is not that New Yorkers are particularly environmentally aware, compared with anyone else," Mittelbach writes. "It's that their population-dense living situation makes ...

‘Green Metropolis,’ by David Owen
Ramsay Home — ... found the following on 2009-11-04 08:16:55: San Francisco Chronicle wrote...'Green Metropolis,' by David OwenSan Francisco Chronicle... simply locating the institute in the heart of Denver would have been more ecological than all the bells and whistles put into its green architecture. ...and more Read the original article at, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/04/ ...

‘Green Metropolis,’ by David Owen
Ramsay Home — ... found the following on 2009-11-04 08:16:55: San Francisco Chronicle wrote...'Green Metropolis,' by David OwenSan Francisco Chronicle... simply locating the institute in the heart of Denver would have been more ecological than all the bells and whistles put into its green architecture. ...and more Read the original article at, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/04/ ...