Publications
GreenShareCar™ is committed to finding ways now to address the effects of Climate Change; our members make a commitment when deciding to join GreenShareCar™ to do something now which has immediate effects in reducing carbon emissions. GreenShareCar™ has identified the following publications which may be of interest to our members.
GreenShareCar™ is not in the business of selling books, if you wish to purchase any of the publications listed here, we recommend that you visit your preferred bookstore or you can order copies online with one of the following online bookstores.
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Innovative & Sustainable Transport
Share Cars in Australia
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Share Cars in Australia
Innovative & Sustainable Transport
A groundbreaking guide that explains about how share cars are revolutionizing the way people want to travel in the future, global warming is changing the way people think and act, this guide is fresh and new to Australia. It contains researched local material and international trends into car sharing. Provides projections into the future of car sharing, It looks at car sharing in inner city medium and high density developments, it explores ideas on how car sharing can be implemented into new outer suburban housing estates and new land subdivisions, where car sharing in the future will be expected by their future occupants. All medium and high density buildings of the future will have car sharing available for use, exclusively by the building occupiers.
The guide has been prepared by GreenShareCar to assist stakeholders in the planning application process. Car Sharing has been active since 1998 in the USA and Canada. Car Sharing is somewhat new to Australia Paul Cummaudo founder of GreenShareCar based in Melbourne has carried out extensive research into Car Sharing organisations internationally and locally.
Paul Cummaudo has also consulted with US and European Car Sharing Consultants and the companies who support the industry with the required car technology and reservation and billing software, which is required to run a proficient car sharing organisation. All consultants and companies, who GreenShareCar has consulted, have been involved with the car sharing industry since its initial beginnings.
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Al Gore
Al Gore has given the world several solutions and global cases of effective approaches. His main solutions include the use of telecommunications, efficiency in business and alternate energy solutions: photo voltaic solar panels, wind energy, electric cars, “smart grids,” and nuclear energy.
Gore has been involved with environmental issues since 1976, when as a freshman congressman; he held the "first congressional hearings on the climate change, and co-sponsor hearings on toxic waste and global warming. He continued to speak on the topic throughout the 1980s and was known as one of the Atari Democrats, later called the "Democrats' Greens, politicians who see issues like clean air, clean water and global warming as the key to future victories for their party."
In 1990, Senator Gore presided over a three-day conference with legislators from over 42 countries which sought to create a Global Marshall Plan, "under which industrial nations would help less developed countries grow economically while still protecting the environment." In the late 1990s, Gore strongly pushed for the passage of the Kyoto Protocol, which called for reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. He was opposed by the Senate, which passed unanimously (95–0) the Byrd–Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98), which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States".
In 2004 Al Gore co-launched a new company the Generation Investment Management, a company for which he serves as Chair. A few years later, Gore also founded The Alliance for Climate Protection, an organization which eventually founded the We Campaign. Gore also became a partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading that firm's climate change solutions group. He also helped to organize the Live Earth benefit concerts.
Watch Al Gore on Energy Environment TV
Global Warming Testimony 21st March 2007
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Affluenza
Af-flu-en-za (n). 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the Australian dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth.
Our houses are bigger than ever, but our families are smaller. Our kids go to the best schools we can afford, but we hardly see them. We've got more money to spend, yet we're further in debt than ever before. What is going on? The Western world is in the grip of a consumption binge that is unique in human history. We aspire to the lifestyles of the rich and famous at the cost of family, friends and personal fulfillment. Rates of stress, depression and obesity are up as we wrestle with the emptiness and endless disappointments of the consumer life.
Affluenza pulls no punches, claiming our whole society is addicted to overconsumption. It tracks how much Australians overwork, the growing mountains of stuff we throw out, the drugs we take to ‘self-medicate' and the real meaning of ‘choice'. Fortunately there is a cure. More and more Australians are deciding to ignore the advertisers, reduce their consumer spending and recapture their time for the things that really matter.
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Cool It
A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns.
Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumptions, and may very well have little impact on the world's temperature for hundreds of years. Rather than starting with the most radical procedures, Lomborg argues that we should first focus our resources on more immediate concerns, such as fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS and assuring and maintaining a safe, fresh water supply-which can be addressed at a fraction of the cost and save millions of lives within our lifetime. He asks why the debate over climate change has stifled rational dialogue and killed meaningful dissent.
Lomborg presents us with a second generation of thinking on global warming that believes panic is neither warranted nor a constructive place from which to deal with any of humanity's problems, not just global warming. Cool it promises to be one of the most talked about and influential books of our time.
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Welcome to the URBAN Revolution
Taking readers on a street-level tour of the world’s cities, Urban Revolution provides an anatomy of our urbanizing planet. The book probes the foundation of globalization - an evolving world system of cities that incubates crises and revolutions, but also promises solutions for our greatest challenges. This book is written for anyone who wants to understand how people will transform the planet in the 21st century.
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Plan C Community Survival Strategies
Concerns over climate change and energy depletion are increasing exponentially. Mainstream solutions still assume a panacea that will cure our climate ills without requiring any serious modification to our way of life.
Plan C explores the risks inherent in trying to continue our energy-intensive lifestyle. Using dirtier fossil fuels (Plan A) or switching to renewable energy sources (Plan B) allows people to remain complacent in the face of potential global catastrophe. Dramatic lifestyle change is the only way to begin to create a sustainable, equitable world.
The converging crises of Peak Oil, Climate Change and increasing inequity are pre-sented in a clear, concise manner, as are the twin solutions of community (where cooperation replaces competition) and curtailment (deliberately reducing consumption of consumer goods). Plan C shows how each person's individual choices can dramatically reduce CO2 emissions. It offers specific strategies in the areas of food, transportation and housing.
Plan C is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in living a lower-energy, saner, and sustainable lifestyle.
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Requiem For A Species
Sometimes facing up to the truth is just too hard. There have been any number of urgent scientific reports in recent years emphasising just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act. But around the world only a few have truly faced up to the facts about global warming.
This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, so that now it is too late. It is a book about the frailties of the human species: our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our penchant for avoiding the facts. It is the story of a battle within us between the forces that should have caused us to protect the earth, like our capacity to reason and our connection to nature, and our greed, materialism and alienation from nature, which, in the end, have won out.
And it is about the 21st century consequences of these failures, and what we can do now.
Because we don’t have to take this lying down.
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Strategy For Sustainability
Layoffs. Failing companies. Collapsing economies. Tainted products. Scarce resources. These are but a few of the seemingly intractable problems that plague the world we live in today. And these problems will only get worse—unless we change how we do business. That calls for the relentless pursuit not of short-term profitability, but of long-term sustainability—and that doesn’t mean “green.”
Leading business strategist Adam Werbach pushes sustainability well beyond quaint notions of saving the planet. In Strategy for Sustainability, Werbach redefines the movement to address not just environmental and economic trends, but also social and cultural ones.
Werbach underscores that strategy has always been about making profits first and that can’t change. But what must change is how we go about making those profits. He proposes a new business strategy framework that is keenly attuned to the world around us, flexible enough to respond to rapid change, and focused on the long view. A strategy for sustainability requires constantly analyzing changes in society, technology and resources to determine how these changes will impact your company—and creating “North Star” goals that tie your success to positive global trends you see developing. From there, you can implement the three core tools of sustainability—making information transparent, engaging people inside your company, and leveraging networks of customers, suppliers, and communities—to identify and solve pressing problems.
Through success stories within companies from Xerox to method to Wal-Mart, Werbach shows how some companies are already realizing profits by putting sustainability at the core of their business. Not with top-down directives from executives, but from dozens, even hundreds of small steps taken by people at every level of their companies.
The sustainability movement is just beginning—and you have the chance to reinvent everything. The question is: what will you do?
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