Statehouse And Greenhouse

No environmental issue triggers such feelings of hopelessness as global climate change. Many areas of the world, including regions of the United States, have experienced a wide range of unusually dramatic weather events recently. Much climate change analysis forecasts horrors of biblical proportions, such as massive floods, habitat loss, species loss, and epidemics related to warmer weather. Such accounts of impending disaster have helped trigger extreme reactions, wherein some observers simply dismiss global climate change as, at the very worst, a minor inconvenience requiring modest adaptation. It is perhaps no surprise, therefore, that an American federal government known for institutional gridlock has accomplished virtually nothing in this area in the last decade. Policy inertia is not the story of this book, however. Statehouse and Greenhouse examines the surprising evolution of state-level government policies on global climate change. Environmental policy analyst Barry Rabe details a diverse set of innovative cases, offering detailed analysis of state-level policies designed to combat global warming. The book explains why state innovation in global climate change has been relatively vigorous and why it has drawn so little attention thus far. Rabe draws larger potential lessons from this recent flurry of American experience. Statehouse and Greenhouse helps to move debate over global climate change from bombast to the realm of what is politically and technically feasible.

No environmental issue triggers such feelings of hopelessness as global climate change. Many areas of the world, including regions of the United States, have experienced a wide range of unusually dramatic weather events recently. Much climate change analysis forecasts horrors of biblical proportions, such as massive floods, habitat loss, species loss, and epidemics related to warmer weather. Such accounts of impending disaster have helped trigger extreme reactions, wherein some observers simply dismiss global climate change as, at the very worst, a minor inconvenience requiring modest adaptation. It is perhaps no surprise, therefore, that an American federal government known for institutional gridlock has accomplished virtually nothing in this area in the last decade. Policy inertia is not the story of this book, however. Statehouse and Greenhouse examines the surprising evolution of state-level government policies on global climate change. Environmental policy analyst Barry Rabe details a diverse set of innovative cases, offering detailed analysis of state-level policies designed to combat global warming. The book explains why state innovation in global climate change has been relatively vigorous and why it has drawn so little attention thus far. Rabe draws larger potential lessons from this recent flurry of American experience. Statehouse and Greenhouse helps to move debate over global climate change from bombast to the realm of what is politically and technically feasible.

TO MY FATHER IN WIIOSE FLLTE-HEATED, SHED ROOF PROPAGATING HOUSE I FIRST LEARNED TO LOVE THE SMELL OF THE SOIL . .. v111 PKEI7ACE Experiment Stations and of the Unitecl States Department of Agriculture. The book is offered wit11 a full conscious- ness of its shortcomings, but with the hope that it may be of sonie definite service and that it inay serve as a focusing point for criticisms and suggestions, out of which nlay be born a fuller knowledge through the experience and observation of its readers. W. J. WRIGHT. New York State Scllool of Agriculture, I 917, Alfred, New York. CONTENTS CHAPTER I Classes of sash-beds-Classes of green- houses-Evolution of the greenhouse. CHAPTER I1 Hotheds, location of, sash, pit, manure for- Coldframes-Cold or storage pits-Forcing boxes-Gable roof sash-beds-Mqts and shutters-Care of sash-bed materials. GREEKITOUSE PROPER-GENERAL CON- SIDERATIONS . . 35-49 Location-Arrangement-Size of houses- Pitch of roof-Measuring the pitch-Length of rafters. CHAPTER IV 1, ean-to or shed-roof houses-Even-span or span-roof houses-Uneven span houses- Ridge-and-furrow houses-Side hill houses -Curved roof houses-Curved eave houses -Circular houses. CHAPTER V STRUCTURAL MATERIAL . . 63-79 Glazing sill-Eave plate-Gutter-Glazing bars-Side posts-Sash bars-Gable bars- Drip gutters-Purlins-Ridge-Kinds of wood used-Framing.