Research Catalog

Title

Divorce your car! : ending the love affair with the automobile / Katie Alvord ; foreword by Stephanie Mills.

Author

Alvord, Katharine T.

Publication

Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers, c2000.

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Publisher description

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Details

Description

xiii, 305 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Our romance with cars has become a very troubled entanglement. Today's relationship with the automobile brings pollution, sprawl, congestion, noise, injury, and even death. Yet we continue to live with cars at an escalating cost to ourselves and the environment. Divorce Your Car! is the ultimate guide to liberating ourselves from our addiction to cars and the automobile culture. It is full of inspiring examples and realistic actions we can take now as individuals and as communities to reduce our auto-dependence. Divorcing your car can take many forms, from simply using cars less to not owning one at all. In North America, well over 50 percent of trips are under four miles. Each day there are countless of opportunities for people to re-meet their feet, board a bike, take a train, or hop on a bus. This practical guide shows how divorcing a car can be fun, healthy, money-saving, and helpful to the planet in the process.

Subjects

• Automobile ownership
• Automobile ownership > Social aspects
• Automobiles > Social aspects
• Automobiles > Aspect social

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-248) and index.

Contents

Introduction: What Does It Mean to Divorce Your Car? 1 -- Part 1 Love's Been Blind: How We Ended Up Married to Cars 7 -- Part 2 Grounds for Divorce: Why Our Automotive Marriage is On the Rocks 63 -- Part 3 How to Divorce Your Car: Let Me Count the Ways ... 125.

ISBN

• 0865714088
• 9780865714083

LCCN

2001430133

OCLC

• ocm43591314
• 43591314
• SCSB-5571525

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries