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1 online resource (318 pages) |
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Foreword by Mayor John Hickenlooper; Introduction by Beth Conover; PART ONE: Culture and Consumption; Auden Schendler: Climate RevelationsGod, Climate, and Hope; Stephen Trimble: The Next West; Todd Hartman: Salvation for the Climate; Laura Pritchett: The Universe on Blacktop (My Day of Saving 66 Million BTUs); David Akerson: Urban ChickensLocavorism and its Discontents; Mark Eddy: Climate Tourism in Kilimanjaro; Lisa Jones: Taking Vern HomeA Carbon-Neutral Eco-Travel Journal; Sean Kelly: Cooking for the Climate; Jackson Perrin and Dev Carey: Coyote CommonsBeyond the Proverbial Lightbulb |
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Diane Carman: Eco-ConsumerismPART TWO: natural resourCes; Michael Jamison: Glacier National ParkPortrait of a Place, an Agency, and a Climate Scientist; Kirk Johnson: Climate in Geologic Time and My Lifetime; Peter Heller: The River Dry; Marc Waage: No-Regrets Strategies for Climate Change; Eric Kuhn: Managing the Uncertainties of the Colorado River System; Brad Udall: Water in the RockiesA Twenty-First-Century |
| Summary |
Melting glaciers. Pine beetle infestation. Drought. Carbon footprints. Green jobs and promises of a new energy economy. ... When the venerable Aspen Skiing Company starts talking about the "death of snow," even the most determined deniers start to wonder, what is going on? This enlightening collection of essays develops a portrait of the wide range of responses to climate change in the Rocky Mountain West. For more than two decades, this region has been a leader in addressing climate change, and today it is a hub of solutions to this pressing global issue. Written by more than forty veteran |
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Print version record |
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Climatic changes -- Rocky Mountains Region
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Climatic changes -- West (U.S.)
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Climatic changes
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Climatology
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Rocky Mountains Region -- Climate
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West (U.S.) -- Climate
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Rocky Mountains Region
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West United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781936218035 |
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1936218038 |
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