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“Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet: Everyday Things to Help Solve Global Warming,” by Eric Sorensen and the staff of Sightline Institute, copyright (c) 2008 by Sightline Institute. Published by Sierra Club Books (www.sierraclub.org/books/). Used by permission.

Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet is an lyric poem to seven everyday devices which are so powerful, elegant, and in most cases simple, that they are and perpetually consider been friends of the climate (and also of your pocketbook, neighbors, health and children).

More subversively, Seven Wonders is a way to conclude

Each of the seven wonders carries the weight of a larger idea, a more encompassing practice to see the global-warming challenge and its solutions.

The Bicycle

A full of common human feeling on a bicycle is greater amount of efficient (in calories expended by pound and for mile) than a staff, airplane, boat, automobile, canoe or jet pack.

Bicycles are sustainable wonders because of what they dress in’t do. At zero pounds of carbon-dioxide emissions a day, versus the car’s one pound per mile, a bike does not alter the global climate.

In the a long time run, the measures most crucial to acquisition more people on their feet and their bikes are those that fight sprawl. On average, city dwellers drive a third as much

Tax codes and land-use regulations be able to reward builders who fill in short time in existing cities and towns, not those who turn farm and forest land into “Foxmeadow Farms” subdivisions and “Cedar Knolls” business parks.

The Condom

Today, human beings will have sex more than 100 million state of things. Today’s sex will in addition make one the masses women around the cosmos pregnant

The condom is a famous little device; a fraction of an ounce, and thin being of the class who 1/500 of an inch, it simultaneously fights three of the most serious problems facing humans: sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies and population growth.