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Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn  
Publisher Comments How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings...
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From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank: The Complete Guide to Using Vegetable Oil as an Alternative Fuel
by Joshua Tickell Publisher Comments As pollution envelops the world's cities, temperatures on planet Earth rise, and once rich oil fields run dry, researchers scramble to find solutions to the impending transportation crisis. But the fuel of the future may be hidden in places nobody...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
by James Howard Kunstler
Powells.com Staff Pick In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long...
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Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
by Elizabeth Royte Publisher Comments An incisive, intrepid, and habit-changing narrative investigation into the commercialization of our most basic human need: drinking water. Having already surpassed milk and beer, and second now only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the...
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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...
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Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
by Richard Heinberg Publisher Comments The twentieth century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption, and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, the impact of humans on the environment increased dramatically. The twenty-first century ushered in an...
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Party's Over : Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Revised and Updated (Rev 05 Edition)
by Richard Heinberg Publisher Comments 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...
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Do It Yourself Guide to Biodiesel: Your Alternative Fuel Solution for Saving Money, Reducing Oil Dependency, Helping the Planet
by Guy Purcella Publisher Comments Containing the most current and complete information available for would-be biodiesel makers, Do-It-Yourself Guide to Biodiesel offers a step-by-step path from the initial desire to do something good for the environment to the final stage of filling the...
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Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
by John Ghazvinian Publisher Comments Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn’t seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the...
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The Atomic Bazaar: Dispatches from the Underground World of Nuclear Trafficking
by Willia Langewiesche Publisher Comments In his shocking and revelatory new work, the celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. This is the story of the inexorable drift of nuclear weapons technology from the hands of the...
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Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
by Lisa Margonelli Publisher Comments Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry: the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day. Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second...
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Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
by Richard Heinberg
Publisher Comments If the US continues with its current policies, the next decade will be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Resource depletion and population pressures are about to catch up with us, and no one is prepared. The political...
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On the "Clean" Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm (Speaker's Corner)
by Willie Nelson Synopsis Country music legend Willie Nelson confronts one of the most significant problems facing America today: dependency on foreign oil as a source of energy....
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Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable Energy
by Hermann Scheer Publisher Comments The new book from the internationally renowned author of The Solar Economy and A Solar Manifesto, and named one of Time Magazine's Heroes of the Green Century. For 200 years industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap...
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Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum
by Michael T Klare Publisher Comments In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-cold-war world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning...
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Crude: The Story of Oil
by Sonia Shah
Publisher Comments "Shah...has written a book that couldn't be more relevant."-USA Today "Required reading for all who care about the future of this country and the planet as a whole."- The Nation "This is not a Michael Moore-style anti-corporate rant-Shah writes...
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Coal: A Human History
by Barbara Freese
Publisher Comments In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Prized as the best stone in Britain by Roman invaders who carved jewelry out of it, coal has transformed...
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The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
by Paul Roberts Publisher Comments Petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our economy, our politics, and our personal expectations that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail by the most powerful forces in the world: companies and governments that depend on oil...
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End of Oil : on the Edge of a Perilous New World (04 Edition)
by Paul Roberts Publisher Comments You live in this world. You use oil. You must read this book. The situation is alarming and irrefutable: within thirty years, even by conservative estimates, we will have burned our way through most of the oil that is readily available to us. Already...
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Out of Gas : the End of the Age of Oil (04 Edition)
by David Goodstein Publisher Comments OVER THE PAST CENTURY, we have developed a civilization rooted in the promise of an endless supply of cheap oil. But our rate of oil discovery worldwide has reached its peak and will never be exceeded; it is certain to decline forever forward. David Good-...
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