| Title |
Losing our cool : uncomfortable truths about our air-conditioned world (and finding new ways to get through the summer) / Stan Cox. |
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| Publication Info. |
New York : New Press, [2010] |
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©2010 |
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| Description |
xiii, 255 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-247) and index. |
| Contents |
Table of contents -- "There's no power on earth that can stop it!" -- Making the weather -- The air-conditioned dream -- Going mobile -- The business climate -- surviving the great indoors -- India : where "A/C" means "VIP" -- Inconspicuous consumption -- Coming out of the cold. |
| Summary |
Cox argues that by reintroducing traditional cooling methods as well as putting newer technologies into practice--and by moving past industrial definitions of comfort--we can make ourselves comfortable and keep the planet comfortable, too. --from publisher description |
| Subject |
Air conditioning -- Environmental aspects.
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Chlorofluorocarbons -- Environmental aspects.
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Global warming.
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| ISBN |
1595584897 |
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