{"product_id":"gray-to-green-communities-a-call-to-action-on-the-housing-and-climate-crises-9781642831283","title":"Gray to Green Communities: A Call to Action on the Housing and Climate Crises","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dana Bourland\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Island Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Island Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sustainability \u0026amp; Green Design\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUS cities are faced with the joint challenge of our climate crisis and the lack of housing that is affordable and healthy. Our housing stock contributes significantly to the changing climate, with residential buildings accounting for 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. US housing is not only unhealthy for the planet, it is putting the physical and financial health of residents at risk. Our housing system means that a renter working 40 hours a week and earning minimum wage cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment in \u003ci\u003eany\u003c\/i\u003e US county. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGray to Green Communities\u003c\/i\u003e, green affordable housing expert Dana Bourland argues that we need to move away from a \u003ci\u003egray\u003c\/i\u003e housing model to a \u003ci\u003egreen\u003c\/i\u003e model, which considers the health and well-being of residents, their communities, and the planet. She demonstrates that we do not have to choose between protecting our planet and providing housing affordable to all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBourland draws from her experience leading the Green Communities Program at Enterprise Community Partners, a national community development intermediary. Her work resulted in the first standard for green affordable housing which was designed to deliver measurable health, economic, and environmental benefits. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book opens with the potential of green affordable housing, followed by the problems that it is helping to solve, challenges in the approach that need to be overcome, and recommendations for the future of green affordable housing. \u003ci\u003eGray to Green Communities\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the stories of those who benefit from living in green affordable housing and examples of Green Communities' developments from across the country. Bourland posits that over the next decade we can deliver on the human right to housing while reaching a level of carbon emissions reductions agreed upon by scientists and demanded by youth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGray to Green Communities\u003c\/i\u003e will empower and inspire anyone interested in the future of housing and our planet.","brand":"Island Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999522209943,"sku":"9781642831283","price":2821.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781642831283.webp?v=1783600901","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gray-to-green-communities-a-call-to-action-on-the-housing-and-climate-crises-9781642831283","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}