Green illusions : the dirty secrets of clean energy and the future of environmentalism / Ozzie Zehner.

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Zehner, Ozzie

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Our sustainable futurePublication details: Lincoln : Lobdon : University of Nebraska Press, 2012.Description: xx, 437 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780803237759 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

333.7940973 ZEH 23 002334

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Table of contents

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 pt. II FROM HERE TO THERE 8.The Alternative-Energy Fetish 9.The First Step pt. III THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTALISM 10.Women's Rights 11.Improving Consumption 12.The Architecture of Community 13.Efficiency Culture 14.Asking Questions.

Summary: We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what's wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	333.7940973 ZEH 002334 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		002334

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-414) and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. 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
pt. II FROM HERE TO THERE
8.The Alternative-Energy Fetish
9.The First Step
pt. III THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTALISM
10.Women's Rights
11.Improving Consumption
12.The Architecture of Community
13.Efficiency Culture
14.Asking Questions.

We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what's wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem.

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