The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy - 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 Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy write by Lester R. Brown. This book was released on 2015-04-20. The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way. As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil fuels rise, and concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old economy, fueled by oil, natural gas, and coal is being replaced with one powered by wind, solar, and geothermal energy. The Great Transition details the accelerating pace of this global energy revolution. As many countries become less enamored with coal and nuclear power, they are embracing an array of clean, renewable energies. Whereas solar energy projects were once small-scale, largely designed for residential use, energy investors are now building utility-scale solar projects. Strides are being made: some of the huge wind farm complexes under construction in China will each produce as much electricity as several nuclear power plants, and an electrified transport system supplemented by the use of bicycles could reshape the way we think about mobility.
The Great Transition
The Great Transition - 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 Great Transition write by B. M. S. Campbell. This book was released on 2016-06-23. The Great Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.
Great Transition
Great Transition - 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 Great Transition write by Paul Raskin. This book was released on 2002. Great Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Empowering the Great Energy Transition
Empowering the Great Energy Transition - 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 Empowering the Great Energy Transition write by Scott Valentine. This book was released on 2019-12-17. Empowering the Great Energy Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At a time when climate-change deniers hold the reins of power in the United States and international greenhouse gas negotiations continue at a slow crawl, what options are available to cities, companies, and consumers around the world who seek a cleaner future? Scott Victor Valentine, Marilyn A. Brown, and Benjamin K. Sovacool explore developments and strategies that will help fast-track the transition to renewable energy. They provide an expert analysis of the achievable steps that citizens, organizational leaders, and policy makers can take to put their commitments to sustainability into practice. Empowering the Great Energy Transition examines trends that suggest a transition away from carbon-intensive energy sources is inevitable—there are too many forces for change at work to stop a shift to clean energy. Yet under the status quo, change will be too slow to avert the worst consequences of climate change. Humanity is on a path to incur avoidable social, environmental, and economic costs. Valentine, Brown, and Sovacool argue that new policies and business models are needed to surmount the hurdles separating the current consumption model from a sustainable energy future. Empowering the Great Energy Transition shows that with well-placed efforts, we can set humanity on a course that supports entrepreneurs and communities in mitigating the environmental harm caused by technologies whose time has come and gone.
The Great Transition
The Great Transition - 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 Great Transition write by Raymond L. Garthoff. This book was released on 1994. The Great Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Raymond L. Garthoff examines the fateful final decade of U.S.- Soviet relations, from the start of the Reagan administration in 1981 through the end of the Soviet era-- the collapse of the communist bloc, the end of Gorbachev's failed perestroika, and the demise of the Soviet Union itself at the end of 1991. While standing on its own, the book is a sequel to the author's earlier acclaimed, Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan, which covers the period 1969-1980. This volume features a detailed examination of the perspectives and actions of both the United States and the Soviet Union and their interaction, including the interrelationships of domestic factors with foreign and security policies in both countries and the involvement of both powers with other countries around the world, which infringed on their direct relationship. Besides analyzing the turn from confrontation to détente over the years of the Reagan and Bush administrations and Brezhnev through the Gorbachev administration, it reflects on the significance of the great transition from the cold war to a new era. It thus illuminates the very relevant recent history that underlines and informs American-Russian relations and the new situation of a post-Soviet, post-cold war world. Garthoff has obtained access to many formerly secret Soviet documents on this period in the Russian archives, as well as to a number of official American documents that have only recently been declassified. In addition, he has been able to interview and discuss the issues with many active or former Soviet and American officials. The author concludes that the key development was the advent of a Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who recognized the need to cast off a failed world view and to end the cold war-- and who successfully moved with the United States, under the Reagan and Bush administrations, and others, to achieve that goal; notwithstanding his failure in the parallel attempt to revitalize and transform the Soviet Union. Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Book of 1994
