Implementing Sustainable Living at Scale

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🔬研究者:Researchers can explore the book's integrated framework linking sufficiency, circular economy, and disclosure, and its empirical cases for urban infrastructure transitions.

🏢実務担当者:Corporate sustainability teams can use the playbooks and measurement protocols to design and audit decarbonization projects, especially in energy, buildings, and mobility.

🏛政策担当者:Policymakers can adopt the toolkit for codes, tariffs, and procurement to drive systemic change, with emphasis on equity and just transition clauses.

Implementing Sustainable Living at Scale is a practical, cross-sector manual for turning sustainability principles into repeatable delivery routines. The book’s central claim is that places can achieve durable, just, low-throughput prosperity when they (1) reduce structural demand first (envelopes, access, repair), (2) build continuous networks rather than isolated nodes (protected cycling + bus priority; ambient/low-temperature thermal loops; green–blue corridors; circular materials systems), (3) embed stewardship and justice in ownership and contracts (public–community utilities, community land trusts, limited-equity co-ops, outcome-based and just-transition clauses), and (4) bind money to verified results (commissioning, post-occupancy evaluation, safety and reliability outcomes, circularity ratios, tariff credits for low return temperatures). Integrating insights from Doughnut Economics, sufficiency/degrowth, commons governance, environmental justice, and circular economy practice, the book provides playbooks for energy, buildings, mobility, water, materials, and digital infrastructure; a finance stack matched to asset lifecycles; toolkits for codes, tariffs, procurement, and community benefits; and measurement protocols with public data lineage and APIs. It addresses contemporary pressures—including the siting and operation of data centers and artificial intelligence workloads—by requiring disclosure (power and water intensity), workload scheduling to low-carbon hours, and where feasible, waste-heat recovery to district networks. Because legality and capacity vary, the guidance emphasizes fit-to-place adaptation across climates and governance contexts, clarifying when to lead with code, tariff, franchise, procurement, interlocal compacts, or incentive eligibility. Worked cases (district heat with wastewater/data-center recovery, retrofit-plus-mobility compacts, resource parks and deconstruction, campus living-labs) demonstrate sequencing, institutions, contracts, and indicators in practice. A concluding roadmap and risk playbook operationalize the transition over 0–36+ months, with equity and operations-and-maintenance treated as binding constraints, not afterthoughts. The result is an integrated implementation architecture that is buildable, auditable, and portable across cities, towns, campuses, and regions.

• openaire https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17229753first seen 2026-05-05 19:07:49