{"title":"David Owen","description":"David Owen is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author more than a dozen books. He lives in northwest Connecticut with his wife, the writer Ann Hodgman.","products":[{"product_id":"the-conundrum-how-scientific-innovation-increased-efficiency-and-good-intentions-can-make-our-energy-and-climate-problems-worse-paperback","title":"The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003estaff writer, a razor-sharp indictment of our efficiency-forward approach to sustainable living. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about living green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car are dangerous fantasies. We are consumers, and we like to consume green and efficiently. But David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross purposes to our true goal - living sustainably and caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problems, turns out to be part of the problem. Efforts to improve efficiency and increase sustainable development only exacerbate the problems they are meant to solve, more than negating the environmental gains. We have little trouble turning increases in efficiency into increases in consumption. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Owen's \u003ci\u003eThe Conundrum\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegant nonfiction narrative filled with fascinating information and anecdotes takes you through the history of energy and the quest for efficiency. This is a book about the environment that will change how you look at the world. We should not be waiting for some geniuses to invent our way out of the energy and economic crisis we're in. We already have the technology and knowledge we need to live sustainably. But will we do it?\u003cbr\u003eThat is the conundrum.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375606923487,"sku":"9781594485619","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/bVBqhK63px9781594485619.webp?v=1789203871"},{"product_id":"like-no-other-place-the-sandhills-of-nebraska-paperback","title":"Like No Other Place: The Sandhills of Nebraska - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eCovering nearly twenty thousand square miles, the Sandhills of Nebraska is a rich and layered region that is home to one of the most productive ranching areas in the country. In 2008 and 2009, photographer and storyteller David A. Owen traveled through western Nebraska to capture the unconventional beauty of the geography and singular way of life of the residents there. Connecting the everyday activities of the ranchers and residents he encounters to the vast, isolated landscape, Owen provides a fascinating window into this dazzling area of America. \u003cbr\u003eThrough Owen's fine ear and eye, \u003ci\u003eLike No Other Place\u003c\/i\u003e takes the reader on a memorable journey into an out-of-the-way destination that is part of a modern American West and yet still organically linked to its past. 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The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.\" --\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.-Mexico border where the river runs dry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWater problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story Owen tells in \u003ci\u003eWhere the Water Goes\u003c\/i\u003e is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert--and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379090587871,"sku":"9780735216099","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PHxggVd85S9780735216099.webp?v=1789268539"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/david-owen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}