Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability

Read David Owen‘s posts on the Penguin Blog. From the acclaimed "New Yorker" writer, a thought-provoking, innovative, and challenging new approach to protecting our environment. Most Americans think of cities as ecological nightmares-wastelands of concrete, garbage, diesel fumes and traffic jams-but residents of urban cores actually consume less oil, electricity, and water than hybrid- driving Vermonters do, and they have smaller carbon footprints. Essentially, they’re force…