Clean Tech Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clean Tech Nation write by Ron Pernick. This book was released on 2012-09-04. Clean Tech Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With other nations aggressively forging ahead in clean tech—including renewable energy, smart grid, electric vehicles, and green buildings—how can the United States position itself for success? On its current path, the United States risks losing out on the most critical opportunity for job creation and global economic leadership in the 21st century. China is spending hundreds of billions on clean tech and is now the world leader in solar-panel and wind-turbine manufacturing. Germany plans to shutter all its nuclear power plants within a decade and build a new energy economy focused on renewables and efficiency. Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, India, and many others are also enthusiastically pursuing these burgeoning possibilities. If the U.S. is to remain dominant, as it has in the earlier high-tech and Internet revolutions, it needs to supercharge efforts at every level—in federal, state, and city governments, and in schools, small businesses, and large companies. Industry experts Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder combine insightful analysis with lively storytelling to assess current clean-tech leaders worldwide, while highlighting front-running U.S. cities and states. Offering a Seven-Point Action Plan for Repowering America—with such controversial steps as ending all energy subsidies within ten years, launching a national smart infrastructure bank, and creating a new breed of clean-tech investment tools modeled on the oil and gas industries—Clean Tech Nation sounds a compelling and achievable call to action.
Clean Energy Nation
Clean Energy Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clean Energy Nation write by Gerald McNerney. This book was released on 2012. Clean Energy Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Americans are already feeling the pressures of the current energy situation, and many of us are ready to make a change. Clean Energy Nation is a timely and hopeful look at an issue we can't afford to ignore. --Book Jacket.
The Clean Tech Revolution
The Clean Tech Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Clean Tech Revolution write by Ron Pernick. This book was released on 2007-06-12. The Clean Tech Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this groundbreaking and insightful book, the authors show how clean technologies such as hybrid electric cars, solar power, and nanotechnology have opened up opportunities for entrepreneurship, investing, and high-growth careers.
Green Illusions
Green Illusions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Green Illusions write by Ozzie Zehner. This book was released on 2012. Green Illusions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We don’t have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what’s wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem. Though we generally believe we can solve environmental problems with more energy—more solar cells, wind turbines, and biofuels—alternative technologies come with their own side effects and limitations. How, for instance, do solar cells cause harm? Why can’t engineers solve wind power’s biggest obstacle? Why won’t contraception solve the problem of overpopulation lying at the heart of our concerns about energy, and what will? This practical, environmentally informed, and lucid book persuasively argues for a change of perspective. If consumption is the problem, as Ozzie Zehner suggests, then we need to shift our focus from suspect alternative energies to improving social and political fundamentals: walkable communities, improved consumption, enlightened governance, and, most notably, women’s rights. The dozens of first steps he offers are surprisingly straightforward. For instance, he introduces a simple sticker that promises a greater impact than all of the nation’s solar cells. He uncovers why carbon taxes won’t solve our energy challenges (and presents two taxes that could). Finally, he explores how future environmentalists will focus on similarly fresh alternatives that are affordable, clean, and can actually improve our well-being. Watch a book trailer.
The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions
The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions write by Douglas Arent. This book was released on 2017. The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A volume on the political economy of clean energy transition in developed and developing regions, with a focus on the issues that different countries face as they transition from fossil fuels to lower carbon technologies.
