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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Recent changes in the global production and flow of energy have remade the world. In this book, the author reveals the forces shaping the future of energy, both renewable and fossil fuel. The New Map offers a new vision of the world's energy reserves and, therefore, the future of geopolitics"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An engaging, accessible citizen's guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate-and how we can hold our governments accountable for putting these plans into action. Dozens of kids in Montgomery County, Maryland, agitated until their school board committed to electric school buses. Mothers in Colorado turned up in front of an obscure state panel to fight for clean air. If you think the only thing you can do to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
Thomas L. Friedman's no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future.
Friedman proposes
Author
Language
English
Description
"The 2016 election left many people who are concerned about the environment fearful that progress on climate change would come screeching to a halt. But not Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope. Bloomberg, an entrepreneur and former mayor of New York City, and Pope, a lifelong environmental leader, approach climate change from different perspectives, yet they arrive at similar conclusions. Without agreeing on every point, they share a belief that cities,...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In a world torn apart by wars over oil, politicians have stepped up their search for alternative energy sources-and their leading choice is nuclear energy. But nuclear energy's popularity as a green alternative is based on misinformation. People claim that nuclear-powered electricity does not cause global warming or pollution, that it is inexpensive, and that it is safe. These claims, as Helen Caldicott demonstrates, are untrue.
In Nuclear Power...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Petroleum is so deeply entrenched in our economy, politics, and daily lives that even modest efforts to phase it out, are fought tooth and nail. Companies and governments depend on oil revenues. Developing nations see oil as their only means to industrial success. And, the Western middle class refuses to modify its energy-dependent lifestyle.
But, even by conservative estimates, we will have burned through most of the world's accessible oil within...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Global climate change? We can stop it. Addiction to oil?
We can replace it. Technological innovation? We can create it. But we can't wait twenty, thirty, or fifty years. Bill Richardson launched his campaign for the presidency to remind the American people--and their representatives in Washington, that we know how to get things done. We need to end our dependence on oil, and we need to do it yesterday.
This isn't something that's going to happen...
12) Power surge
Author
Series
Jake Ross novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jake Ross, the science advisor to a newly elected freshman senator, must figure out how Washington really works when his comprehensive energy plan runs afoul of special interests, cynical bureaucrats, and a powerful U.S. senator.
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 114-421
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In this timely book, former Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham debunks the myths that warp our current debate over energy, and offers new solutions to the real problems we face in America.
Drawing on the very latest thinking from experts in industry and academia, and his own experiences running America's Energy Department, he proposes a fresh approach to meeting our daunting energy threats. This book effectively answers how America and the world...
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 114-474
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Where does the energy we use come from? It's absolutely vital to every single thing we do every day, but for most people, it is utterly invisible. Flick a switch and the lights go on. It might as well be magic.
Science writer Jeremy Shere shows us in Renewable: The World-Changing Powerof Alternative Energy that energy is anything but magical. Producing it in fossil fuel form is a dirty, expensive-but also hugely profitable- enterprise, with enormous...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"This text argues we're not going to solve the energy problem by convincing everyone to live like it's 1900 because that's not a good thing. Instead of reverting to the past, we have to build a future where we get energy from new places, use it in new ways, and do more with less. Clean coal? Natural gas? Nuclear? Electric cars? We'll need them all. When you look at the numbers, you'll find that we'll still be using fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables...