Designed for the Future

Description

In Designed for the Future, author Jared Green asks eighty of today's most innovative architects, urban planners, landscape architects, journalists, artists, and environmental leaders the same question: what gives you the hope that a sustainable future is possible? Their imaginative answers—covering everything from the cooling strategies employed at Cambodia's ancient temple city of Angkor Wat to the use of cutting-edge eco-friendly mushroom board as a replacement for Styrofoam—show the way to our future success on earth and begin a much-needed dialogue about what we can realistically accomplish in the decades ahead. Featuring an international roster of leading design thinkers including: • Biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus • Curator Barry Bergdoll • Educator and author Alan Berger • Environmentalist and author Lester Brown • Architect Rick Cook • Urban Planner Paul Farmer • Critic Christopher Hume •... (Ch. 1.) Introduction to Linux -- (Ch. 2.) Preparing to Install Linux -- (Ch. 3.) Installation and Initial Configuration -- (Ch. 4.) Basic Unix Commands and Concepts -- (Ch. 5.) Essential System Management -- (Ch. 6.) Managing Filesystems, Swap, and Devices -- (Ch. 7.) Upgrading Software and the Kernel -- (Ch. 8.) Other Administrative Tasks -- (Ch. 9.) Editors, Text Tools, Graphics, and Printing -- (Ch. 10.) Installing the X Window System -- (Ch. 11.) Customizing Your X Environment -- (Ch. 12.) Windows Compatibility and Samba -- (Ch. 13.) Programming Languages -- (Ch. 14.) Tools for Programmers -- (Ch. 15.) TCP/IP and PPP -- (Ch. 16.) The World Wide Web and Electronic Mail.