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  • Strategic And Critical Materials

    Much attention has been focused on U.S. dependency on imports for supplies of strategic minerals and materials. There is alarm about the extent of that dependency and about the possibility that U.S. economic, political, and strategic decisions might be unduly influenced by arbitrary actions of foreign suppliers. In addition, there is concern that t ... Read more

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  • Electrify

    An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future

    by Saul Griffith ...
    An optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything.Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Climate of Hope

    How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more prosperous, aiming to begin a new type of conversation on the issue that will spur bolder action by cities, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Power Hungry

    The Myths of ""Green"" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future

    by Robert Bryce ...
    The promise of "green jobs" and a "clean energy future" has roused the masses. But as Robert Bryce makes clear in this provocative book, that vision needs a major re-vision. We cannot -- and will not -- quit using carbon-based fuels at any time in the near future for a simple reason: they provide the horsepower that we crave. The hard reality is that oil, coal, and natural gas are here to stay ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Carbon Shift

    How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis Will Change Canada (and our lives)

    "We are now so abusing the Earth that it may rise and move back to the hot state it was in fifty-five million years ago, and if it does, most of us, and our descendants, will die."-James Lovelock, leading climate expert and author of The Revenge of Gaia"I don't see why people are so worried about global warming destroying the planet - peak oil will take care of that."-Matthew Simmons, energy ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Investing in Renewable Energy

    Making Money on Green Chip Stocks

    Series Book 3 - Angel Series
    Investing in Renewable Energy puts the depletion of finite resources such as oil, natural gas, and coal in perspective, and discusses how renewable energy solutions–from solar and wind to geothermal and biofuels–will usher in a new generation of wealth for investors and a new way of life for everyone. With this book, you'll discover various renewable energy technologies that are at the forefront ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit

    What They Don't Tell You About the Climate Crisis

    Have you heard that you should go vegan to save the planet? Or carbon offset your flight to mitigate its effects? Or invest in an ethical pension plan? What if you were told that such actions make little difference at all? In Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit, Assaad argues that for too long green activism has been unfocused and distracted, trying to go in too many directions, focussing on ... Read more

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  • The Party's Over

    Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

    The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We are entering a new era, as different from the industrial era as the latter ... Read more

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  • The End of Oil

    On the Edge of a Perilous New World

    by Paul Roberts ...
    "A stunning piece of work—perhaps the best single book ever produced about our energy economy and its environmental implications" (Bill McHibbon, The New York Review of Books).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 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Renewable Future

    Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy

    One of GreenBiz's Six Best Sustainability Books of 2016The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power. Driven by the need to avert catastrophic climate change and by the depletion of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future

    Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future

    by Michael Levi ...
    The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans-convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety-are battling over which one should prevail. In The Power Surge, Michael Levi takes readers inside these revolutions to find out what's really happening-and which side is right. From the back roads of Ohio where old friends ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • A Cubic Mile Of Oil : Realities And Options For Averting The Looming Global Energy Crisis

    One cubic mile of oil (CMO) corresponds very closely to the world's current total annual consumption of crude oil. The world's total annual energy consumption - from all energy sources- is currently 3.0 CMO. By the middle of this century the world will need between 6 and 9 CMO of energy per year to provide for its citizens. Adequate energy is needed remove the scourge of poverty and provide food, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD