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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba Publisher Comments William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover 
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The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis by Greg Pahl Publisher Comments Every day, more people finally “get it.” Global warming is for real and getting worse faster than previously expected. M. King Hubbert’s oil peak looms, and cheap petroleum is a thing of the past. We face an energy crisis. This book... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How to Convert Wood into Charcoal and Electricity by Richard H. Buxton Publisher Comments If you put wood into a pipe and heat it, gas, tar and water vapor will be driven off. You can pipe this gas around into the fire that is heating the pipe. When the whole unit cools, you can extract high grade charcoal. And we're talking about charcoal... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy by Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks Publisher Comments In 1961, President John F. Kennedy ignited America's Apollo Project and sparked a revolution in space exploration. Today the New Apollo Energy Project is poised to revolutionize the production of energy and thereby save our planet. The nation that built... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Alcohol Can Be A Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century by David Blume Publisher Comments For the last century it has been impossible to find reliable information on alcohol fuel production and use. Oil companies have continuously suppressed data on Henry Ford's favorite auto fuel. For example, by the late 80s, over 90% of the cars in Brazil... (read more) Your price: $47.00 New - Trade Paper
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Real Goods Solar Living Source Book: Your Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living, Special 30th Anniversary Edition by John Schaeffer Publisher Comments Concerns over dwindling resources and environmental degradation are driving many to seek alternatives to our wasteful, polluting lifestyle. Clean technologies such as solar power, wind power, and biodiesel fuel are soaring in popularity. Real Goods Solar... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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Microhydro: Clean Power from Water by Scott Davis Publisher Comments Hydroelectricity is the world's largest-and cleanest-source of renewable -energy. But despite lively interest in renewables generally, there is an information vacuum about the smallest version of the technology dubbed "the simplest, most reliable and... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future by Jeff Goodell Publisher Comments Long dismissed as a relic of a bygone era, coal is back -- with a vengence. Coal is one of the nation's biggest and most influential industries -- Big Coal provides more than half the electricity consumed by Americans today -- and its dominance is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age by John Michael Greer Publisher Comments Americans are expressing deep concern about US dependence on petroleum, rising energy prices, and the threat of climate change. Unlike the energy crisis of the 1970s, however, there is a lurking fear that now the times are different and the crisis may... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Science Magazine's State of the Planet: With a Special Section on Energy and Sustainability by Donald Kennedy Publisher Comments Taken from the pages of Science and supplemented by contributions from the magazine’s editors, State of the Planet 2008-2009 offers contemporary science writing that is sometimes provocative, frequently enlightening, and always authoritative... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Energy Crisis: Solution from Space (Apogee Books Space) by Ralph Nansen Synopsis Presenting a bold solution for global climate change and dependence on oil--and the threat of war over its diminishing supply--this visionary reference explores how developing solar energy could bring about unprecedented economic prosperity and... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Cape Wind : Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound (07 Edition) by Wendy Williams Publisher Comments When Jim Gordon set out to build a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, he knew some people might object. But there was a lot of merit in creating a privately funded, clean energy source for energy-starved New England, and he felt sure most people would... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency by Matthew Stein Publisher Comments If ever there was one book to have when the lights go out, When Technology Fails is it. In this revised edition--the first edition was written pre-9/11 when global warming was still considered a fringe idea--author Mat Stein offers readers skills to make... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Renewable Energy Handbook: A Guide to Rural Energy Independence, Off-Grid and Sustainable Living by William H. Kemp Publisher Comments As oil prices continue to rise, many people are starting to think about how to unhook from the electricity grid. The Renewable Energy Handbookfocuses completely on off-grid, sustainable living and rural energy independence. Author/engineer William H... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer: To Global Warming or Anything Else by Helen Caldicott Publisher Comments In a world torn apart by wars over oil, many politicians are increasingly looking for alternative sources of energy — and their leading choice is often nuclear. Among the myths that have been spread over the years about nuclear-powered electricity... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy by Greg Pahl Publisher Comments When Rudolph Diesel invented his engine in the late nineteenth century, he envisioned a device that could run anywhere on a wide range of local fuels. A century later, Greg Pahl recalls that vision and shows us it is possible with Biodiesel: Growing a... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of Gas : the End of the Age of Oil (04 Edition) by David Goodstein Publisher Comments Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In The Boy Who Followed... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of 'Energy Independence' by Robert Bryce Publisher Comments A surprising, irreverent, and scrupulously reported deconstruction of today's fashions in energy policy. Everybody is talking about "energy independence." But is it really achievable? Is it actually even desirable? In this controversial, meticulously... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future by Vijay Vaitheeswaran Publisher Comments Oil is the problem. Cars are the solution. Those two simple sentences by the authors of Zoom define the scope of their illuminating and important book, an examination of a transformation in business and culture that is occurring before our eyes. We are... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Prospects for Sustainable Energy: A Critical Assessment by Edward S Cassedy Publisher Comments Critical assessment of the complete range of sustainable energy technologies for policy-makers and advanced students.... (read more) List Price $65.25 Your price: $24.95 Used - Trade Paper
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