Explosion Green

One Man's Journey To Green The World's Largest Industry

David Gottfried (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

306 Seiten

2014
Morgan James Publishing llc (Verlag)
978-1-63047-022-7 (ISBN)

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Explosion Green tells the twenty-year story of the global green building movement through the eyes of David Gottfried, the man who helped start it all. Explosion Green reveals the inner workings of the building industry as it comes to grips with the need for environmentally friendly practices. It describes how the industry has evolved, and how this evolution has helped fight climate change and prevent further damage to the environment while creating a multibillion-dollar industry. Filled with his unique insight and self-deprecating humor, Gottfried’s riveting memoir demonstrates how one person can start a global movement. "Explosion Green" has won three 2014 Indie Book Awards: Second Place Grand Prize for Non-fiction, Business Category, and Memoir Category

David Gottfried is known as the father of the global green building movement, founding both the World Green Building Council and the U.S. Green Building Council, which has done more for carbon mitigation than any other organization. He has two annual awards in his name, has published two memoirs, "Greed to Green" (2004), and "Greening My Life" (2010), and has appeared on KQED/NPR with Michael Krasny, NPR Radio, Discover Channel's Renovation Nation, ABC News, Metropolitan Home, in the Jerusalem Post, Australia's Financial Times, and dozens of other publications.

FOREWORD: BLESSED UNREST
INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: BEGINNINGS
1 China Green
2 Makeover
3 Learning the Game
4 First Sighting of Green Building
5 Green Doesn’t Pay the Bills

PART TWO: GREEN BUILDING
6. Jobless in San Francisco
7 Cold Calling
8 The Start of a Movement
9 Building the USGBC
10 What Now?
11 USGBC CPR
12 LEED Rolls Out
13 Growing Up
14 Pushing Limits
15 GBC Goes Global
16 The First Greenbuild
17 The Greenest Little Home in America
18 Regenerative Ventures
19 Shades of Green

PART THREE: REFLECTIONS
20 The GBC Movement at Twenty
21 What’s Next?

EPILOGUE

AFTERWORD: THE ART OF BEING A SERIAL FOUNDER

THE EARTH COMMANDMENTS

BOOK SPONSORS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.6.2014
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	181 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Technik ► Architektur
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
ISBN-10	1-63047-022-8 / 1630470228
ISBN-13	978-1-63047-022-7 / 9781630470227
Zustand	Neuware