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  • Clean Tech Nation

    How the U.S. Can Lead in the New Global Economy

    From Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, the authors of Clean Tech Revolution, comes the next definitive book on the Clean Tech industry. In Clean Tech Nation, they shine a light on the leaders at the forefront of the growing movement. USA Today called Pernick and Wilder's groundbreaking first book, "one of the few instances in this genre that shows the green movement not in heartstring terms but as ... Read more

    Was $15.99 USD Now $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Clean Tech Revolution

    The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity

    When industry giants such as GE, Toyota, and Sharp and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are making multibillion-dollar investments in clean technology, the message is clear. Developing clean technologies is no longer a social issue championed by environmentalists; it's a moneymaking enterprise moving solidly into the business mainstream. In fact, as the economy faces unprecedented challenges ... Read more

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  • The Third Industrial Revolution

    How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    A New York Times–bestselling account of the next great economic era, with a look into the individuals pioneering its implementation around the world.One of the most influential social thinkers of our time reveals how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create the new jobs of the twenty-first century and change the world.In The Third Industrial Revolution, Jeremy Rifkin takes us ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Electrify

    An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future

    by Saul Griffith ...
    An optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything.Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Sonic Boom

    Globalization at Mach Speed

    What can a spell-checker tell you about economic trends? Why is the world’s supply of ideas about to double? What did America get right in the nineteenth century that it’s getting wrong in the twenty-first? If Karl Marx were alive today, would he be hosting a show on Fox News?These are just a few of the provocative questions asked by Sonic Boom, a (mainly) optimistic look at the near future. Sonic ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Why We Hate the Oil Companies

    Straight Talk from an Energy Insider

    As president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister was known for being a straight shooter, willing to challenge his peers throughout the industry. Now, he's a man on a mission, the founder of Citizens for Affordable Energy, crisscrossing the country in a grassroots campaign to change the way we look at energy in this country. While pundits proffer false new promises of green energy independence, or flatly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Driving the Future

    Combating Climate Change with Cleaner, Smarter Cars

    by Margo T. Oge ...
    Now in paperback, with a new foreword by Fred Krupp, an expert's illuminating preview of the cleaner, lighter, smarter cars of the future.In Driving the Future, Margo T. Oge portrays a future where clean, intelligent vehicles with lighter frames and alternative power trains will produce zero emissions and run at 100+ mpg. With electronic architectures more like those of airplanes, cars will be ... Read more

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  • Make It In America, Updated Edition

    The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy

    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

    $11.00 USD

  • Rooftop Revolution

    How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy—and Our Planet—from Dirty Energy

    by Danny Kennedy ...
    Here is the truth that the powerful Dirty Energy public relations machine doesn't want you to know: the ascent of solar energy is upon us. Solar-generated electricity has risen exponentially in the last few years and employment in the solar industry has doubled since 2009. Meanwhile, electricity from coal has declined to pre-World War II levels as the fossil fuel industry continues to shed jobs ... Read more

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  • Two Billion Cars : Driving Toward Sustainability

    At present, there are roughly a billion motor vehicles in the world. Within twenty years, the number will double to 2 billion, largely a consequence of China's and India's explosive growth. Given that greenhouse gases are already creating havoc with our climate and that violent conflict in oil-rich nations is on the rise, does this mean that matters will only get worse? Or are there hopeful signs ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Environmental Debt

    The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy

    by Amy Larkin ...
    An award-winning environmental activist and social entrepreneur exposes the link between our financial and environmental crisesFor decades, politicians and business leaders alike told the American public that today's challenge was growing the economy, and that environmental protection could be left to future generations. Now in the wake of billions of dollars in costs associated with coastal ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Freeing Energy

    How Innovators Are Using Local-scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global Energy Industry from the Outside In

    by Bill Nussey ...
    The transition to clean energy is moving far too slowly. Trapped by a century of fossil fuel investments and politicians that struggle to plan beyond the next election, the “Big Grid” that powers our modern world is outdated and in dire need of an upgrade. Freeing Energy offers a new and faster path towards a clean energy future—one that is more reliable, more equitable, and cheaper. Just like ... Read more

    $9.99 USD