Apollo's fire : igniting America's clean-energy economy / / Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks; foreword by Bill Clinton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956259703321
• Autore: Inslee Jay
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, : Island Press, c2008
• ISBN: 9781597263801; 159726380X; 9781435676640; 1435676645
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Classificazione: REF000000
• Altri autori (Persone): HendricksBracken
• Disciplina: 333.790973
• Soggetti: Energy policy - United States; Renewable energy sources - United States; Global warming
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-367) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- The First Apollo Project -- 1: A New Apollo Project for Energy -- Global Warming Comes to the White House - Or Doesn't -- Ten Energy Enlightenments -- 2: Reinventing the Car -- Becoming Mahatma -- 3: Waking Up to the New Solar Dawn -- When Energy Markets Go Wrong: Surviving Enron -- 4: Energy Efficiency:The Distributed Power of Democracy -- Green-Collar Jobs: From the South Bronx to Oakland -- 5: Reenergizing Our Communities, One Project at a Time -- We Don't Need Oil -- 6: Homegrown Energy -- Wind Energy: False Starts on the Road Success -- 7: Sailing in a Sea of Energy -- A Mind Opened About Mined Coal -- 8: Can Coal or Nuclear Be Part of the Solution? -- The Apollo Alliance: New Coalitions for Change -- 9: What's It Going to Take? -- A Tale of Two Presidents -- 10: An American Energy Policy -- Placing Our Bets on a New Apollo Project -- Lessons from the Mimosa Tree -- Stories from the Field -- Epilogue: Launching Apollo -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Apollo's Fire is a thoughtful, optimistic book, based on sound facts. No one before has tied together the concepts of economic growth and ; greenhouse gas reductions with such concrete examples. No one has previously told the real stories of the people who are right now on the front lines of the energy revolution. The co-authors, one a U.S. Congressman who is the primary sponsor of the New Apollo Energy Act, and the other the founder of the Apollo Alliance, have joined their experience, expertise, and passion for a clean energy future to lay out the path to stop global warming and gain energy independence.