Sustainable communities design handbook : green engineering, architecture, and technology /

This book emphasizes the third industrial revolution, which includes the transition to carbon-neutral sustainable communities powered by renewable energy. Several chapters focus on energy conservation and efficiency in buildings. It describes the energy analysis and approach toward sustainability at the Los Angeles Community College District as well as the actions taken at Frederikshavn, Denmark, to supply 100 percent of community energy requirements from renewable energy sources (wind, solar, and biogas). The work provides significant detail on power purchase agreements, California standard practices to evaluate options, requests for qualifications, and other processes to make facilities sustainable. Clark, recipient of the Nobel Prize with Al Gore in 2007 and coauthor/coeditor of the UN's Climate Change 2001: IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001), authored/coauthored several of the book's chapters and appendixes. The handbook has a good index and appropriate references to other works. It will be particularly useful to those wanting to take action to move toward carbon-neutral facilities powered by renewable energy. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. L. E. Erickson Kansas State University