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Offering advice to sailors on "going green," this timely book embraces the growing trend toward sustainable lifestyles and shows how "clean boating" can be both practical and enjoyable. Sailing is by nature a sustainable activity, but polluted waters and crowded anchorages are signs that problems must be addressed in order to keep it that way. What does "green" mean anyway? Is it improved efficiency? More considerate behavior? Less ignorance? Dieter Loibner offers answers, showing sailors how to reduce their carbon footprint and lessen their impact on the environment as well as how to be a positive force for change.
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Pollution is personal | p. 3 |
| How green is sailing? | p. 6 |
| People, planet, profit | p. 9 |
| Sizing Up the Issues | p. 13 |
| The value of green | p. 15 |
| Sailors for sustainability | p. 19 |
| Small steps in the right direction | p. 20 |
| More People, More Sailors? | p. 23 |
| The curve of consumption | p. 25 |
| The cost of fuel | p. 27 |
| Climate Change 101 | p. 30 |
| Fingerprinting the causes | p. 32 |
| Warmer water, weirder weather | p. 33 |
| Sea levels rising | p. 36 |
| Loss of biodiversity | p. 38 |
| Deliberations of Design | p. 40 |
| Lighten the load | p. 45 |
| The proper prop | p. 47 |
| Sustainable from scratch | p. 50 |
| What else is outside the box? | p. 53 |
| Fossil-fuel Propulsion | p. 57 |
| Solving one problem by creating a new one | p. 58 |
| Cleaning up diesel | p. 60 |
| Gasoline engines | p. 64 |
| Choosing an outboard | p. 69 |
| The Fuss over Fuels | p. 72 |
| Biodiesel | p. 72 |
| Ethanol | p. 75 |
| Using less but going farther | p. 78 |
| Fuel and oil spills | p. 80 |
| Oil change | p. 85 |
| Preventive care | p. 86 |
| Calculating the carbon footprint | p. 88 |
| Alternative Propulsion | p. 91 |
| Diesel-electric propulsion | p. 92 |
| Serial hybrids | p. 95 |
| Regeneration | p. 96 |
| Parallel hybrids | p. 99 |
| Electric propulsion | p. 103 |
| Renewable Energy | p. 109 |
| Solar power | p. 110 |
| Wind generators | p. 114 |
| Tow generation | p. 116 |
| Fuel cells | p. 119 |
| Heads or Travails? | p. 126 |
| Turds vs. turdes | p. 128 |
| The law and the Y-valve | p. 129 |
| A greener solution | p. 132 |
| Maintaining the Edge | p. 135 |
| Clean and green | p. 135 |
| The copper conundrum | p. 138 |
| Clean marinas | p. 144 |
| The Plight of Plastic | p. 150 |
| From plastic to Plastiki | p. 155 |
| It lasts a lifetime (or two) | p. 159 |
| Other forms of plastic | p. 167 |
| Sick Oceans, Sick Planet | p. 171 |
| Building awareness | p. 172 |
| Conservation education | p. 175 |
| Miscellaneous Virtues | p. 180 |
| Folding a bike | p. 182 |
| Fractional ownelrship | p. 186 |
| Reviving tattered sails | p. 188 |
| LED lighting | p. 192 |
| Sustainable Cruising | p. 195 |
| Preparing for an ocean crossing | p. 196 |
| Living with limitations | p. 197 |
| Keepers and castaways | p. 198 |
| Index | p. 203 |
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ISBN: 9781574092844
ISBN-10: 1574092847
Series: ELEANOR BRASCH
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 210
Published: 1st November 2009
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 13.7
x 1.4
Weight (kg): 0.358
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