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Farewell Fossil Fuels: Reviewing America's Energy Policy » Read Now
by Sidney Borowitz. 224 pgs.

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...Energy has become America's forgotten crisis. For more than a decade, Americans have become stridently complacent towards the use and especially the availability of energy
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The Renewable Energy Alternative: How the United States and the World Can Prosper without Nuclear Energy or Coal » Read Now
by John O. Blackburn. 205 pgs.

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...The Renewable Energy Alternative THE RENEWABLE ENERGY ALTERNATIVE How the United States and the World Can Prosper Without Nuclear Energy or Coal JOHN O. BLACKBURN Duke...
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Generating Electric Power in the Pacific Northwest: Implications of Alternative Technologies » Read Now
by Christopher G. Pernin, Mark A. Bernstein, Andrea Mejia, Howard Shih, Fred Rueter, Wilbur Steger. 61 pgs.

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...This report examines the implications of using alternative power-generation technologies to meet future energy demands in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States...
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Fuel of the Future: A Global Push toward New Energy, in Harvard International Review » Read Now
by Andrea Woloski. 4 pgs.

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Renewable Energy Sources for Development, in Environmental Law » Read Now
by Richard L. Ottinger, Rebecca Williams. 38 pgs.

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...Agency developed the ENERGY STAR program, which...awards for using green power. (41) B...Evolution in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas...2000). (33) WORLD ENERGY ASSESSMENT...
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Biomass Energy and the Poor in the Developing World, in Journal of International Affairs » Read Now
by Douglas F. Barnes, Willem Floor. 23 pgs.

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...percent efficiency. (9) Marcia Gowen, "Biofuel versus Fossil Fuel Economics in Developing Countries: How Green Is the Pasture?" Energy Policy, 17, no. 5 (October 1989) pp...
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Reconciling the Electricity Industry with Sustainable Development: Backcasting -- A Strategic Alternative, in Futures » Read Now
by K. L. Anderson. 17 pgs.

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...belief that the failure of `market forces and `energy forecasting to reconcile the energy industry with sustainability, or indeed narrow...forecasting approaches have...
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The Soft Case for Soft Energy, in Journal of International Affairs » Read Now
by Jerry Taylor, Peter VanDoren. 27 pgs.

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...constituencies by looking "green" as long as the...the leading soft energy technologies reveals...Jr., "Renewable Energy: Not Cheap, Not `Green," CATO Policy...
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A New Energy Paradigm for the 21st Century, in Journal of International Affairs » Read Now
by Christopher Flavin, Seth Dunn. 24 pgs.

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...expensive relative to energy. Others may follow...whose Social Democrat-Green coalition agreed...consumers support green-energy investments at the...H. Wiser et al., Green...
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Three Reasons for Investing Now in Fossil Fuel Conservation: Technological Lock-In, Institutional Inertia, and Oil Wars, in Journal of Economic Issues » Read Now
by Richard W. England. 22 pgs.

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...822-41. Kaufmann, Robert. "A Biophysical Analysis of the Energy/Real GDP Ratio: Implications for Substitution and Technical...Jorgen Randers. Beyond the Limits. Post Mills...
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Energy, Society & Environment » Read Now
by David Elliott. 351 pgs.

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This updated new edition examines the potential limits of technological solutions to energy related environmental problems and suggests that social, economic, and political solutions may also be necessary.
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Residential Rural Solar Electricity in Developing Countries, in Contemporary Economic Policy » Read Now
by Duane Chapman, Jon D. Erickson. 11 pgs.

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...countries. If so, then accelerating use of energy in developing countries need not be accompanied...major greenhouse gas. Similarly, solar energy would reduce growth in...
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Morality, Space, and the Power of Wind-Energy Landscapes, in The Geographical Review » Read Now
by Martin J. Pasqualetti. 14 pgs.

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...unmoved by appeals to whatever green inclinations citizens possessed...keeping homes supplied with energy than simply paying for it. Because...Righter, R. W. 1996. Wind...
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Paying a Green Premium, in The McKinsey Quarterly » Read Now
by Ron Bloemers, Franco Magnomi, Michel Peters. 3 pgs.

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...Magnomi , Michel Peters Green energy would seem to have a rosy future...and EON, in Germany, now offer green energy to distributors or direct to interested...which lends...
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Energy Security to 2000 ("Direction of R&D in Alternative Energy and Energy Conservation" begins on p. 107) » Read Now
by Robert Belgrave, Charles K. Ebinger, Hideaki Okino. 303 pgs.

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...ENERGY SECURITY TO 2000 Papers in this series are as follows: Energy Paper No 8: International Gas Trade in Europe , Jonathan P. Stern Energy Paper No 9: Coals Contribution...
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Energy Resources Development: Politics and Policies (Part IV "Energy Policy: The Alternative Energy Debate") » Read Now
by Richard L. Ender, John Choon Kim. 236 pgs.

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Figures Tables Preface Introduction by Richard L. Ender and John Choon Kim Part I: Energy Policy in the Global and National Political Context The Petro-Political Cycle by Ernest J. Wilson Energy Policy and the Economy by John L. Carmichael, Jr. The Role of Congress in Energy Policy by Henry C...
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Figures Tables Preface Introduction by Richard L. Ender and John Choon Kim Part I: Energy Policy in the Global and National Political Context The Petro-Political Cycle by Ernest J. Wilson Energy Policy and the Economy by John L. Carmichael, Jr. The Role of Congress in Energy Policy by Henry C. Kenski and Milo Mecham The Making of Synfuels Policy as an "Ambivalent-Majoritarian" Response by Mohammed E. Ahrari Part II: Energy Policy in the Economic Context U.S. Petroleum Dependency and Oil Price Decontrol by Francis W. Hoole and Jeffrey A. Hart The Economics of Severance Taxes by Albert L. Danielsen and Phillip A. Cartwright Part III: Energy Policy in the Intergovernmental Context The Development of Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Resources by G. Kevin Jones Intergovernmental Relations and the Leasing of Federal Lands for Energy Production: The Case of Off-Shore Oil and Gas in the State of Texas by Charles F. Cnudde Alaska's Energy Resources Development: Policy and Issues by John Choon Kim and Richard L. Ender Part IV: The Alternative Energy Debate Developing an Energy Alternative by Robert A. Solo Energy Planning Alternatives: The Changing Complexion of Barriers and Incentives by Van Robert Johnson and Maxine Kurtz Part V: The Nuclear Power Debate Decentralization of the Nuclear Power Debate by Lettie McSpadden Wenner Part VI: Energy in the Consumer Behavior Context Application of Consumer Psychology to Energy Policy Incentives by Robert E. Pitts The Political Economy of Consumer Energy Subsidies by Drew Hyman with Michael Wadsworth and David Alexander Part VII: Energy Policy: Implementation Implementing the 1977 Coal Act: A Field Level View by Donald C. Menzel and David M. Hedge Index About the Contributors
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