The Converging World: How one community's path to zero waste is helping save our planet - Softcover

Pontin, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749951702 ISBN 13: 9780749951702

Verlag: Piatkus Books, 2008

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The Converging World tells the incredible story of one community's attempt to change their world for the better. Faced with the challenge of making the English village of Chew Magna a 'zero waste' society, Pontin developed a groundbreaking non-profit scheme that twinned them with Tamil Nadu, a poor rural community in southern India. He helped set up a system of wind turbines for Tamil Nadu that would not only reduce the community's reliance on fossil fuels but also provided a local source of sustainable income. The carbon credits produced through this scheme were then sold in Chew Magna to individuals and businesses to offset emissions they cannot yet reduce - all part of a larger local zero-waste effort. The effects of this scheme have been dramatic and exhilarating - while Chew Magna gets closer to zero waste, Tamil Nadu's carbon emissions and poverty levels are diminishing accordingly. Pontin's story presents a model of action for any individual or community concerned about climate change, environmental damage, social inequality and the plight of the third world. If you want to make a difference, The Converging World is a book you must read.

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John Pontin OBE is the founder of the JT Group, a non-profit urban renewal social enterprise which has been engaged in socially enlightened property development for over 40 years. He developed The Converging World programme three years ago.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Piatkus Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0749951702
• ISBN 13: 9780749951702
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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