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Founded in 1998 by the late culinary luminary, author, chef, and entrepreneur Abby Mandel, the Green City Market is the venerable year-round farmers market held in Chicago's Lincoln Park. Since its inception, the Green City Market has grown into one of the most popular destinations for finding organic and sustainable produce and products throughout the Midwest's extensive farm-to-table culinary movement.
The Green City Market Cookbook is the first...
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A magnificent saga of two proud and powerful families-one British, one African-and their battle over Kenya's destiny in the twentieth century.
In 1917, Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya, determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has his own dream for the British protectorate: to establish an agricultural empire to rival any in England. The aspirations of the wealthy Trevertons collide with...
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Niagara Falls is in need of a savior. In the 1940s, prominent businessman JOSEPH MALVISTI made a decision that resulted in decades of widespread environmental devastation in this long-defiled corner of New York State. Joseph writes a series of deathbed confessionary letters in an attempt to atone for his and his sons' conduct. He also unveils an ambitious plan to bankroll a self-sustaining eco-city on the shores of the Niagara River. But the construction...
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The term "Green City" has many different meanings to different people. There is no universal solution that can be applied to every city. Adaptable, responsive, and innovative solutions that differ from one place to another enable Green Cities to emerge in various forms and enable us to recognize the variation and dynamism of cities. Green Development considers how to improve and manage the overall quality and health of water, air, and land in urban...
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"Welcome to our green city! You'll find flowers, trees, animals... and wind turbines, electric cars, and solar panels, too. In this city, a utopian imagination of what a sustainable community could look like, neighbours from diverse backgrounds come together to care for their surroundings and one another. As readers are invited on a journey through the city, they learn about what makes it environmentally friendly, from electric transportation to green...
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Samantha Green, the sharpest investigator for Heartland Global Insurance is on the case again. This time, readers are transported to Seattle, where Sam uncovers the mystery behind a stolen book dating back to the fifteenth century. She encounters a handsome detective along the way whom she suspects has romantic intentions, or at least interests. Samantha senses some chemistry worth exploring, too-at least until she meets the darkly handsome stranger...
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Springer Nature Singapore
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2019
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This open access book highlights Singapore's development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a liveable sustainable way of life. It is also a story about a unique and thoroughgoing approach to large-scale and potentially transferable water sustainability, within largely urbanized circumstances, which can be achieved, along with...
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Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares-as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, David Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all, spend far less time in automobiles. Residents of Manhattan-the most densely populated place in North America-rank...
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Mankind is currently defying all four basic elements to engineer big, useful, ambitious, and environmentally friendly projects that will shape our future on planet Earth and even plant the seeds for the colonization of other planets. Episode 1, Masdar City: Abu Dhabi, one of the most polluting cities on Earth, is the biggest of the United Arab Emirates sitting in the heart of the oil-rich Persian Gulf. Despite its reputation, Abu Dhabi recently announced...
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The University of Georgia Press
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[2024]
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"Green City Rising is an ethnographic account of collective organizing for environmental justice in an era of growing concern about environmental and climate challenges. The conventional sustainability paradigm promises improved environmental conditions for all, such as fresh air and clean water, walkable and bikeable neighborhoods, green space access, and protection from climate crises. Yet, without particular interventions, the pursuit of such environmental...
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This book documents how whiteness can take up space in U.S. cities and policies through well-intentioned progressive policy agendas that support green urbanism. Through in-depth ethnographic research in Kansas City, Chhaya Kolavalli explores how urban food projects-central to the city's approach to green urbanism-are conceived and implemented and how they are perceived by residents of "food deserts," those intended to benefit from these projects.
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Green Arrow volume 18
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Green Arrow's hometown of Seattle is facing the worst crises the city has ever seen: Planes are plummeting out of the sky, gigantic buildings are collapsing, and fires are rapidly spreading. As the death toll continues to rise, panic consumes the city. At the center of it all is a mysterious group of chaos-inciting criminals: the Ninth Circle. And they have Green Arrow dead center in their crosshairs. While Green Arrow forms a crew of superhero first...
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This is an autobiography of a man with simple beginnings who volunteered for the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and fought for our country's freedom. From a small community in St. Louis to the jungle of Vietnam under extreme circumstances, Harry's personal experiences begin with the relationships he built with his Marine "brothers" to the gut wrenching, terrifying battles of combat. This foundation paved the way for his performance...
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One Piece volume 43
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Before they can start their trek across the desert, Luffy and the Straw Hats are stopped at the shore by the cute - but formidable - Kung Fu Dugongs.
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A treasury of trivia from the New-York Historical Society: "An extraordinary tapestry depicting New York's story.... An almost addictive read."-Library Journal
For years, the librarians at the New-York Historical Society have kept a record of the questions posed to them by curious locals and visitors to the city. Who was the first woman to run for mayor of New York? Why are beavers featured on the city's official seal? Is it true that a nineteenth-century...
19) City green
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Marcy and Miss Rosa start a campaign to clean up an empty lot and turn it into a community garden.
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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2024.
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A unique and artful blend of poetry, science, and activism, this picture book shows how city dwellers can intervene so that nature can work her magic. Perfect for fans of The Curious Garden and Harlem Grown.
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