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“charles weiss”

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  • The Survival Nexus

    Science, Technology, and World Affairs

    by Charles Weiss ...
    Technology and science can enable us to create a richer, healthier, sustainable, and equitable world, but they can also lead to global disaster. After all, human technical, political, economic, business, and ethical decisions determine the impact of scientific discoveries and technological innovations... In this book, Charles Weiss explores the intertwining of science, technology, and world ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution

    by Charles Weiss, William B. Bonvillian ...
    An argument for a major federal program to stimulate innovation in energy technology and a proposal for a policy approach to implement it.America is addicted to fossil fuels, and the environmental and geopolitical costs are mounting. A public-private program—at an expanded scale—to stimulate innovation in energy policy seems essential. In Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution, Charles Weiss ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectors

    by William B. Bonvillian, Charles Weiss ...
    The American economy faces two deep problems: expanding innovation and raising the rate of quality job creation. Both have roots in a neglected problem: the resistance of Legacy economic sectors to innovation. While the U.S. has focused its policies on breakthrough innovations to create new economic frontiers like information technology and biotechnology, most of its economy is locked into Legacy ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

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  • The Climate Fix

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  • Conversations about Energy

    How the Experts See America's Energy Choices

    Edited by Jeremy Carl, James E. Goodby ...
    Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key topics. The contributors present a range of ideas and recommendations that might improve the ... Read more

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  • Factfulness

    Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

    by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**“One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates“Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” ... Read more

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  • False Alarm

    How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

    by Bjorn Lomborg ...
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  • The Age of Sustainable Development

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development ... Read more

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  • The Power of Crisis

    How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World

    by Ian Bremmer ...
    New York Times BestsellerRenowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years—including the pandemic—to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade.In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises—global ... Read more

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  • Make It In America, Updated Edition

    The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy

    by Andrew Liveris ...
    The case for revolutionizing the U.S. economy, from a leading CEOAmerica used to define itself by the things we built. We designed and produced the world's most important innovations, and in doing so, created a vibrant manufacturing sector that established the middle class. We manufactured our way to the top and became the undisputed economic leader of the world. But over the last several decades, ... Read more

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  • A Bright Future

    How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow

    by Joshua S. Goldstein, Staffan A. Qvist ...
    The inspiration for Nuclear Now, the new Oliver Stone film, co-written by Joshua GoldsteinAs climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries have already replaced fossil fuels with low-carbon energy sources, and done so rapidly, in one to two decades. By following their methods, we could ... Read more

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