02899cam a2200361 i 4500 605443719 TxAuBib 20221007120000.0 220108s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021055164 9781982123987 HRD 28.99 1982123982 HRD 28.99 TxAuBib rda Harvey, Hal, author Big fix. The big fix [BOOK] : 7 practical steps to save our planet / Hal Harvey and Justin Gillis with Mark Silberg and Amanda Myers. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022. ix, 305 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-280) and index. The learning curve -- Power switch -- Where we live and work -- Over a barrel -- An urban planet -- People, land, and food -- The stuff we make -- Inventing tomorrow -- Saying yes. Dozens of kids in Montgomery County, Maryland, agitated until their school board committed to electric school buses. Mothers in Colorado turned up in front of an obscure state panel to fight for clean air. If you think the only thing you can do to combat climate change is to install a smart thermostat or cook plant-based burgers, you’re thinking too small. That’s where The Big Fix comes in, offering everyday citizens a guide to the seven essential changes our communities must enact to bring our greenhouse gas emissions down to zero—and sharing stories of people who are making those changes reality. Energy policy advisor Hal Harvey and longtime New York Times reporter Justin Gillis hone in on the seven areas where ambitious but eminently practical changes will have the greatest effect: electricity production, transportation, buildings, industry, urbanization, use of land, and investment in promising new green technologies. In a lively, jargon-free style, the pair illuminate how our political economy really works, revealing who decides everything from what kind of power plants to build to how efficient cars must be before they’re allowed on the road to how much insulation a new house requires—and how we can insert ourselves into all these decisions to ensure that the most climate-conscious choices are being made. Provided by publisher. 20221007. Climate change mitigation Citizen participation. Environmental policy Citizen participation. Energy policy Citizen participation. Sustainable development Citizen participation. Gillis, Justin, author. Silberg, Mark, author. Myers, Amanda, author.