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- Article: FloDesign’s Jet-Engine Turbine Will Change The Way You Think About Wind Power (FastCompany.com 9/2013)
A radical new turbine design makes a debut in an industry that's already green, growing, and highly innovative.
- Book: The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving
For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle class ballooned and single-family homes and cars became more affordable, we flocked to pre-fabricated communities in the suburbs, a place where open air and solitude offered a retreat from our dense, polluted cities. Before long, success became synonymous with a private home in a bedroom community complete with a yard, a two-car garage and a commute to the office, and subdivisions quickly blanketed our landscape. But in recent years things have started to change. (a Fortune Magazine excerpt of Leigh Gallagher's book, scheduled for an August 1, 2013 release)
- Book: Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
There’s a war on in America’s neighborhoods. In the past few decades, a confluence of three trends has brought man and beast into increasing conflict: the rebound of wildlife populations from near-historic lows, human populations’ growing sprawl and the regrowth of forests on abandoned farmlands, especially in the Northeast. Reviewed by former NY Times columnist Russell Baker
- Book: The Great Texas Wind Rush: How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind Power
Millions of people are asking how or if the country can transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy — and ironically Texas is leading the way in actually doing it. In "The Great Texas Wind Rush," Kate Galbraith and Asher Price tell the strange, inspiring and at times funny story of how a culture known for Big Oil came to embrace Big Wind.
- (Click here for a Wall Street Journal Book Review on “The End of the Suburbs,” “Urbane Delusions”)
Visit this post for a Wall Street Journal review, dated September 9, by Joel Kotkin, urban studies fellow at Chapman University