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  • Climate Change – A Law Of Nature

    The promise of the energy transition and its failure in practice

    by Fabian Brunner ...
    Instead of adapting to the changing climate, all the relevant groups in German society have joined forces to combat climate change. No attempt has been made to avoid technical efforts or costly measures. The energy transition and the Green Deal have tremendous consequences for the state, society and individuals. Public debate has tended to ignore these consequences and has failed to consider the ... Read more

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  • The Climate Fix

    What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming

    by Roger Pielke Jr. ...
    Why has the world been unable to address global warming? Science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr., says it's not the fault of those who reject the Kyoto Protocol, but those who support it, and the magical thinking that the agreement represents. In The Climate Fix, Pielke offers a way to repair climate policy, shifting the debate away from meaningless targets and toward a revolution in how the world ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Our Renewable Future

    Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy

    by Richard Heinberg, David Fridley ...
    One of GreenBiz's Six Best Sustainability Books of 2016The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power. Driven by the need to avert catastrophic climate change and by the depletion of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Fair Economics

    Nature, money and people beyond neoclassical thinking

    by Irene Schoene ...
    Have you ever questioned our economic model? Wondered how the financial crash was able to happen? Thought about what we can do stop it happening again?Modern economics bases its view of the world on assumptions Adam Smith made about nature and people nearly three hundred years ago, in a time when people travelled by horse and carriage and wrote by the light of candles. We now live in a globally ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Solar Revolution

    The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry

    by Travis Bradford ...
    An innovative analysis that shows how the shift to solar energy—in particular, the use of photovoltaic cells—is both economically advantageous and inevitable, and will rival the information and communication technologies revolution in its transformative effects.In Solar Revolution, fund manager and former corporate buyout specialist Travis Bradford argues—on the basis of standard business and ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Confronting Climate Gridlock

    How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future

    by Daniel S Cohan ...
    An atmospheric scientist explains why global climate change mitigation and energy decarbonization demand American diplomacy, technology, and policy“Daniel Cohan makes a compelling case that the problem of climate change is solvable. Fixing the gridlock on global action requires fixing the gridlock here in the United States of America. Cohan shows how that can be done.”—David Victor, UC San ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • A Good Disruption

    Redefining Growth in the Twenty-First Century

    by Martin Stuchtey, Per-Anders Enkvist, Klaus Zumwinkel ...
    A Good Disruption describes how disruptive technology can be used to combat the economic challenges of our age and sets out an inspirational vision of a more effective and sustainable growth model.Disruptive technology is one of the defining economic trends of our age, transforming one major industry after another. But what is the true impact of such disruption on the world's economies, and does ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

    Technology, Incentives, Behavior

    Edited by Fereidoon Sioshansi ...
    The complexity of carbon reduction and economic sustainability is significantly complicated by competing aspects of socioeconomic practices as well as legislative, regulatory, and scientific requirements and protocols. An easy to read and understand guide, Sioshansi, along with an international group of contributors, moves through the maze of carbon reduction methods and technologies, providing ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture

    DESERTEC and Beyond

    by Michael Düren ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book focuses on the global cycles of energy, water and carbon, which are not only the essentials of our main energy carriers, the fossil fuels, but are also the building blocks of life. The book offers an overview of the basic scientific facts and relationships that are needed to understand today’s energy generation and use, how they relate ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Our World

    an invitation to rescue our future

    by Maja Göpel ...
    Translated by David Shaw ...
    A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises.As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On the one hand, we have never been so well off; on the other hand, we find destruction and crisis everywhere we look. Whether throughout the environment or within society, our systems are ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Hydrogen Economy

    Opportunities and Challenges

    Edited by Michael Ball, Martin Wietschel ...
    Responding to the sustained interest in and controversial discussion of the prospects of hydrogen, this book strives to reflect on the perspectives of a hydrogen economy in light of the global energy challenge, in particular the question of how to meet the growing demand for transport energy in the long term and how to secure sustainable energy for transportation. This book stands out from other ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • The Economic Superorganism

    Beyond the Competing Narratives on Energy, Growth, and Policy

    by Carey W. King ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Energy drives the economy, economics informs policy, and policy affects social outcomes. Since the oil crises of the 1970s, pundits have debated the validity of this sequence, but most economists and politicians still ignore it. Thus, they delude the public about the underlying influence of energy costs and constraints on economic policies that address such pressing contemporary issues as income ... Read more

    $44.89 CAD