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by Stan Cox

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One of the Mother Nature Network's ten "must-read environmental books" of the year, Losing Our Cool is the first book to examine how indoor climate control is helping send our outdoor climate reeling out of control. With summers growing hotter and energy demand heavier, Stan Cox shows how air-conditioning transforms human experience in surprising ways, by altering our bodies' sensitivity to heat; our rates of infection, allergy, asthma, and obesity; and even our sex lives. It has also enabled an irrational commuter economy, triggered a migration toward the American South and West, and created the kind of workplace in which employers wear sweaters in July. But, as Cox shows us, by combining traditional cooling methods with newer technologies, we can make ourselves comfortable and keep the planet comfortable as well.

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  • Title Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths about Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer)
  • Author Stan Cox
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press
  • Publication date 2012-06
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781595587756 / 1595587756
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.8 in (19.81 x 13.46 x 2.03 cm)
  • Category Environmental Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Global warming, Chlorofluorocarbons - Environmental aspects
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.46

About the author

Stan Cox is a plant breeder at the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas. He has written on environmental issues for newspapers nationwide, including the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, as well as for CounterPunch, AlterNet, and many other online publications. He is the author of Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine.
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