Renewable Energy : Books
There are 7 documents in this section.
The Solar Economy
The global economy and the way of life it has created are based on the exploitation of fossil fuels - coal, oil and, more recently, natural gas - and fossil fuels will be the engine of the collapse of that economy, warns Hermann Scheer . Without fundamental change, he says, it has no future.
Energy Revolution: Policies for a Sustainable Future
This book was hailed by Christopher Flavin, president of the Worldwatch Institute, as "a clear road map to the proven policies that will make a post-petroleum economy possible."
Hands On - Energy, Infrastructure and Recycling
Based on the Hands On series of video films prepared by the Television Trust for the Environment and broadcast on BBC World, Hands On - Energy, Infrastructure and Recycling covers innovations in energy and power, buildings, transport and re-use of materials.
Factor Four
Factor Four is one of the very best and most important reports the Club of Rome has ever put out. It deals with the central challenge we face over the next half century: how to accommodate population growth and economic growth, while at the same time not just stabilizing the burden of consumption and waste currently threatening the planet, but reducing it below its present unsustainable level.
Transforming Electricity
The enthusiastic heralding of revolutions is part of the frenetic backdrop to modern technological change. Such clarion calls are nowhere more familiar than in the field of environment and sustainability, where they have become something of an occupational hazard. But this book - with its powerful and engaging imagery, its readable style, its panoramic scope and its relaxed authority - is a classic of the genre.
Power Surge
Flavin and Lenssen's excellent book is much more than a guide to the coming energy revolution: it also provides an illuminating account of the history of energy use.
Among the vast literature on electricity and renewable energy the following titles are especially useful, writes Walt Patterson.
Solar power surged ahead in 2011
Fukushima meltdown hastens decline of nuclear power
Economic recovery brings return to growth of CO2 emissions
World's biggest offshore windfarm opens
Solar power off the grid: energy access for world's poor
Energy poverty remains a global challenge
Hydropower use increases
Tar sands campaigners hit back at Canadian lobbying
Irreversible climate change likely in five years
Solar PV breaks records in 2010
Maldives President outlines progress on carbon neutral plan
Bioenergy can pose risks as well as bring benefits