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Divorce Your Car! Katie Alvord

Divorce Your Car! By Katie Alvord

Divorce Your Car! by Katie Alvord


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Shows how divorcing a car can be fun, healthy, money-saving, and helpful to the planet in the process. Car-dependency is a serious problem, but this book is leavened with love-affair and self-help analogies in the text, as well as cartoon illustrations.

Divorce Your Car! Summary

Divorce Your Car!: Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile by Katie Alvord

Our romance with cars, begun with enthusiasm more than 100 years ago, has in fact become a very troubled entanglement. Today's relationship with the automobile inflicts upon us pollution, noise, congestion, sprawl, big expenses, injury, and even death. Yet we continue to live with cars at a continuing cost to ourselves and the environment. What can people do about this souring affair? Divorce your car! Re-meet your feet, board a bike, take a train, pull out of this dysfunctional relationship with the automobile! Divorcing your car can take many forms, from simply using it less to not owning one at all. This practical guide shows how divorcing a car can be fun, healthy, money-saving, and helpful to the planet in the process. Car-dependency is a serious problem, but this book is leavened with love-affair and self-help analogies in the text as well as cartoon illustrations. From commuters crazed by congestion and soccer moms sick of chauffeuring, to environmentalists looking for auto alternatives this book provides all the reasons not to drive and the many alternative ways we can all get around without our cars.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Stephanie Mills; Introduction: What Does It Mean to Divorce Your Car?; Falling Head Over Wheels: The Advent of Cars; Other Suitors Drop by the Wayside: The Decline of Non-Car Transport; The Possessive Auto Takes Over the Landscape: The Proliferation of Roads and Suburbs; Keeping the Romance Alive: The Role of Marketing and Advertising; This Isn't Love, This Is Addiction!: The Relationship Today; Smoke Gets in Our Eyes: The Damage Done to Air; Cleaning Up After the Car: Oil Spills and Other Environmental Messes; The Little Bad Habits That Drive Us Crazy: Miscellaneous Drawbacks of Living with Cars; Not a Cheap Date: The Real Cost of Cars; The Greatest Cost: The Toll from Car Crashes; Just Walk Out!: Using Your Feet Instead of Your Car; You'll Look Sweet Upon the Seat: Bicycles for Transportation; Let Someone Else Take You for a Ride: Transit and Other Shared Transportation; On the Rebound: Alternative Fuels; Long-Distance Relationships: Telecommunications; Get Support: Social and Political Strategies for Ending Car Addiction; Play the Field: The Spice of Transportation Variety; Car-Dependent No More: Ending Auto Dominance; Index.

Additional information

GOR002224765
9780865714083
0865714088
Divorce Your Car!: Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile by Katie Alvord
Used - Very Good
Paperback
New Society Publishers
20000815
306
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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