Ozzie Zehner

Green Illusions

The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis.

Produktdetails

• Our Sustainable Future
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9780803237759
• ISBN-10: 0803237758
• Artikelnr.: 34746978

Autorenporträt

Ozzie Zehner, who has collaborated on numerous projects in industry, government, and academia, is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Unraveling the Spectacle
 
Part I: Seductive Futures
1. Solar Cells and other Fairy Tales
2. Wind Power's Flurry of Limitations
3. Biofuels and the Politics of Big Corn
4. The Nuclear-Military-Industrial Risk Complex 
5. The Hydrogen Zombie
6. Conjuring Clean Coal
7. Hydropower, Hybrids, and other Hydras
 
Part II: From Here to There
8. The Alternative-Energy Fetish
9. The First Step
 
Part III: The Future of Environmentalism
10. Women's Rights
11. Improving Consumption
12. The Architecture of Community
13. Efficiency Culture
14. Asking Questions
 
Epilogue: A Grander Narrative?
Resources for Future Environmentalism
Notes
Index