You Wanna Make Phoenix Green?
It’s More Plausible Than You’d Think
“If Phoenix can become sustainable, then it can be done anywhere,” declared writer and cultural analyst Andrew Ross. This was the inspiration behind his new book, Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City, which explores the past, present, and future of the green movement in the Phoenix area.
Ross was speaking at a Zócalo event co-sponsored by Arizona State University, and many members of the large and rapt audience at the city’s Heard Museum were among the 200 “influential and thoughtful citizens”–lawmakers and urban planners, artists and activists–Ross …
