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Author: John M Meyer, ‎Jens Kersten

The Greening of Everyday Life develops a distinctive new way of talking about environmental concerns in post-industrial society. It brings together several conceptual frameworks with a diversity of case studies and practical examples of efforts to orient everyday material practices toward greater sustainability. The volume builds upon internal criticisms of dominant strands of contemporary environmentalism in post-industrial societies, and develops a new approach which emerges from a number of disciplines, but is unified by a normative concern for the material objects and practices familiar to members of societies in their everyday lives. In exploring alternatives, the chapter authors utilize conceptual frameworks rooted in environmental justice, new materialism, and social practice theory and apply it to the everyday; attention to urban biodiversity, infrastructure for storm water run-off, green home remodelling, household toxicity, community gardens and farmers markets, bicycling and automobility, alternative technologies, and more. With contributions from leading international and emerging scholars, this volume critically explores specific strategies and actions taken to generate homes, communities, and livelihoods that might be scaled-up to promote more sustainable societies.

The greening of everyday life challenging practices imagining possibilities 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Concepts and Movements

1. The New Environmentalism of Everyday Life: Sustainability, Material Flows, and Movements
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Food, Energy, Making: New Materialist Movements
1.3 Beyond Postmaterialism: To Vital and Attentive Materialisms
1.4 Power, Flows, Circulations
1.5 Vital and Sustainable Materialism: Flows and Immersions in the Nonhuman
1.6 Criticisms, Dangers, and Challenges
1.7 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Bibliography

2. Just Another Brick in the Toilet: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth and the Riddle of…
2.1 Introduction: Flushing for the Preservation of the World?
2.2 “First, Cheap, and Simple”
2.3 Consumption and Compromise
2.4 Widening the Scope
2.5 Conclusion
Bibliography

Part II: Household

3. The Household as Infrastructure: The Politics and Porosity of Dwelling in a Time of Environmental…
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Out of Sight, Out of Mind
3.3 Everyday Water and Waste
3.4 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Bibliography

4. Homemaking Practices of Provision and Maintenance: Implications for Environmental Action
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Using Theories of Social Practice to Understand Changing Houses and Household Routines
4.3 The Practice of Buying a (New) Home
4.3.1 Meanings of Buying a Home
4.3.2 Materials Involved in Buying a Home
4.3.3 Competences Involved in Buying a Home
4.4 The Practice of Renovating a Home
4.4.1 Meanings of Home Renovation
4.4.2 Materials Involved in Home Renovation
4.4.3 Competences Involved in Home Renovation
4.5 Conclusion
Appendix 1: Method and Participants
Selandra Rise
Green Renovators
Bibliography

5. The Everyday Toxicity of the “Average” North American Home
5.1 Illness and the Materiality of the Home
5.2 Biomonitoring and Experiment
5.3 Conclusion
Bibliography

6. Household Maintenance and the Environmental Politics of Tending
6.1 Tending as Political Practice
6.2 The Role of Tending in the US Environmental Movement
6.3 How Household Maintenance Became Private
6.4 Household Maintenance as Ethical Consumption
6.5 Household Maintenance as Environmental Politics
Bibliography

Part III: Infrastructure

7. Greening Lifestyles, Homes, and Urban Infrastructure in Chicago, IL, and Jacksonville, FL
7.1 Introduction: Everyday Life and Relationships between Greener Lifestyles, Homes, and Urban Infra
7.2 Greener Lifestyles through Housing Choice in Chicago, Illinois
7.2.1 Geoff’s Apartments: Greening Renters’ Everyday Lives?
7.2.2 Victor’s Condos: Greening Owners’ Everyday Lives?
7.3 The Cityscape of Jacksonville, Florida: Greening Everyday Life
7.3.1 Cars, Guns, and Gated Golfing Communities: Limiting Greener Lifestyles
7.3.2 Farmers’ Markets, Arts Markets, and One Spark: Encouraging Greener Lifestyles
7.4 Limits to the Greening of Everyday Life
Bibliography

8. At Home in the Watershed: Environmental Imaginaries and Spatial Politics in Los Angeles
8.1 Making LA in the Twentieth Century: Water Imports for an Urbanizing Landscape
8.2 Roadblocks to Unpaving LA
8.3 The “Watershed Approach” Ascendant
8.4 From Social Justice to “Stewardship”: The Shifting Political, Economic, and Social Dimension
8.5 Ecosystem Services—and also Ecosystem Duties
Bibliography

Part IV: Biodiversity in Unexpected Spaces

9. Reimagining the Backyard: Implications and Opportunities for Sustainability
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Backyard
9.3 Social Construction of Backyards
9.4 Sustainability and the Backyard
9.4.1 Individual Ideas
9.4.2 Community Ideas
9.5 Conclusion
Bibliography

10. Urban Biodiversity: Ambivalences, Concepts, and Policies
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Ambivalences
10.2.1 Urban Reduction of Biodiversity
10.2.2 Urban Preservation of Biodiversity
10.3 Concepts
10.3.1 Urban Nature
10.3.2 Urban Structure
10.3.3 Urban Landscape
10.4 Policies
10.4.1 Urban Sustainability
10.4.2 Urban Coevolution
10.5 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Bibliography

Part V: Land

11. The Tragedy of the Uncommon: Property, Possession, and Belonging in Community Gardens
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Property, Possession, and Belonging
11.3 Self-Validating Reduction and Transformative Values
11.4 Concluding Thoughts: The Case of Community Gardens
Bibliography

12. Making the Land Connection: Local Food Farms and Sustainability of Place
Bibliography

Part VI: Mobility

13. Automobility and Freedom
13.1 “Auto-Freedom”
13.1.1 Identity
13.1.2 Control
13.1.3 Expressed Preference in the Marketplace
13.1.4 Human Flourishing
13.2 Challenges of Automobility
13.2.1 Changes to Cars v. Changes to Us
13.2.2 Private v. Public
13.3 Engaged, Resonant Criticism of “Auto-Freedom”
13.3.1 Revisiting Identity
13.3.2 Revisiting Control
13.3.3 Revisiting Market Preferences
13.3.4 Automobility and Human Flourishing
Acknowledgments
Bibliography

14. Bicycling and the Politics of Recognition
14.1 Trendy or Travail?
14.2 Moving beyond Car Culture
14.3 Cyclists as Second-Class Citizens
14.4 Bicycling and the Natural Environment
14.5 The Los Angeles Case Study
14.6 Women as an “Indicator Species”
14.7 Conclusion
Bibliography

Part VII: (Dis)Engagement

15. Ontologies of Sustainability in Ecovillage Culture: Integrating Ecology, Economics, Community, and…
15.1 Holism and the Story of Separation
15.2 Ecology
15.3 Economics
15.4 Community
15.5 In Sum
15.6 Scaling It Up
Bibliography

16. Everyday Household Practice in Alternative Residential Dwellings: The Non-Environmental Motivations
16.1 Alternative Technology and Alternative Living: The Case Studies
16.2 Solar Electric Technology Adoption
16.3 Earthships and Earthship Biotecture
16.4 Life in Intentional Community
16.5 Environmental Behaviors as Cultural Practice
16.6 Cultures of Resistance

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