RUNNING ON EMPTY: THE FUTURE OF THE AUTOMOBILE IN AN OIL-SHORT WORLD

Politics & Social Sciences

Flavin, Christopher

Brown, Lester Russell

Norman, Colin

Politics & Government

W.W.Norton

Two senior researchers at the Worldwatch Institute assess the advances being made in the use of major renewable energy sources, from wood to solar energy, and detail a plan for sound energy development

Renewable Energy: The Power to Choose

Science & Math

Deudney, Daniel

Technology

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Describes an environmental research team's plan for a global economy

Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Substainable Global Economy (Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)

Business & Money

Postel, Sandra

Brown,Lester R.

Economics

Looks at developments in renewable energy sources, discusses the role of energy in society, and speculates on future energy developments

Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution (Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)

Lenssen, Nicholas

Discusses economic, social, and environmental trends

Vital Signs 1996: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

Kane, Hal

An indispensable guide for anyone concerned with the future of life on our planet. In State of the World 2001, the Worldwatch Institute’s award-winning research team tackles the great challenge of our rapidly globalizing world: how to use our political systems to manage the difficult and complex relationships between the global economy and the Earth’s ecosystems. The book provides concerned citizens and national leaders with a comprehensive analysis of threatening environmental trends―from the growing pollution of groundwater to the increasing toll of "unnatural" disasters to the effects of the developing world’s staggering $2 trillion debt―and emerging solutions to turn those trends around. Written in clear and concise language, with easy-to-read charts and tables, State of the World 2001 presents a view of our changing world that we, and our leaders, cannot afford to ignore. Charts, tables, graphs

State of the World 2001 (Worldwatch Institute Books)

The Worldwatch Institute

French, Hilary

W.W.Norton&Company

Two senior researchers at the Worldwatch Institute assess the advances being made in the use of major renewable energy sources, from wood to solar energy, and detail a plan for sound energy development

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Report assessing society's ability to sustain itself without hurting the next generation

State of the World, 1991: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society

Starke, Linda

Power Surge predicts a turbulent next decade, as large energy companies struggle to preserve the status quo and newer firms and their environmental allies fight to change government policy and open up energy markets to greater competition. Some giant oil, auto, and utility companies may find themselves in the current position of IBM―overtaken by competitors who are better able to anticipate the coming revolution. The world energy economy is poised for a sweeping shift away from imported oil and environmentally damaging coal during the next few decades, according to the findings in Power Surge, the latest book from the Worldwatch Institute. Pushed by the need to stabilize the earth's climate, and pulled by the investment opportunities that beckon, global energy markets are beginning a rapid move to more efficient, decentralized, and cleaner systems, echoing the shift from mainframe to personal computers during the 1980s. Among the emerging changes expected: a new generation of lightweight, super-efficient electric cars that can be refueled at home; the rapid conversion of coal and nuclear plants to efficient gas turbines; a new generation of mass-produced wind and solar generators that are cost-competitive with the most advanced fossil plants; tiny fuel cells and rooftop solar panels that allow people to generate their own electricity; and the gradual emergence of nonpolluting hydrogen as the world's main energy carrier, supplanting oil and natural gas. The authors of Power Surge, Christopher Flavin and Nicholas Lenssen, have identified recent deployments of new energy technologies by enterprising engineers, small entrepreneurs, and eccentric tinkerers in countries around the world, providing an early glimpse of the massive changes ahead.

Nicholas Lenssen

Text and graphics illuminate the trends our world is experiencing, including features on grain production, population growth, wind power, global temperature, fish catches, irrigation, bicycle production, women in politics, cigarette taxes, and new infectious diseases. Simultaneous.

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RUNNING ON EMPTY: THE FUTURE OF THE AUTOMOBILE IN AN OIL-SHORT WORLD

Renewable Energy: The Power to Choose

Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Substainable Global Economy (Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)

Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution (Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)

Vital Signs 1996: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

State of the World 2001 (Worldwatch Institute Books)

Renewable Energy: The Power to Choose

State of the World, 1991: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society

Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution (Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)

Vital Signs 1996: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future