George P. Mitchell and the Idea of Sustainability

by Jurgen Schmandt

An energy tycoon, real estate developer, and philanthropist, George P. Mitchell is also an idealist, a big thinker who gave his time and fortune to the study of sustainability long before it became a household word.
Jurgen Schmandt, who has worked for Mitchell for many years, explains and traces the idea of a sustainable society, from its origin in the eighteenth-century concept of the "commons" to its twentieth-century iteration in the 1987 United...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603442170
• ISBN13: 9781603442176
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"