Word: modernizationã
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...developing world, ecological modernization??€”or Captain Planet Economics (CPE)—is mostly a low-scale endeavor. The results are even more striking. For years, the buildings of the late vernacular architect Laurie Baker have helped alleviate poverty in India and done nothing to worsen climate change. Baker’s adobe abodes, which constitute the majority of the edifices in Thiruvananthpuram, Kerala are made mostly out of a resource requiring zero fuel: mud. The buildings often lack doors and have awkward gaps between the bricks to facilitate cooling. Baker’s team, the Centre...
...feeling was that as we [got] Authority—where Gordon served as director of capital programs and Logan modernization??—he oversaw the overhaul of Logan International Airport...
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