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Offers a non-partisan and realistic roadmap for our transition to renewable energy
Provides a comprehensive overview of our energy system in a non-technical style
Explores the challenges and social implications presented by the shift to renewable energy
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Context: It’s All About Energy
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Energy Supply in a Renewable World: Opportunities and Challenges
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Preparing for Our Renewable Future
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About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Post Carbon Institute, Santa Rosa, USA
Richard Heinberg
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA
David Fridley
About the authors
Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow-in-Residence of Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost educators on the need to transition away from fossil fuels. He has authored scores of books, essays, and articles that have appeared in Nature, Christian Science Monitor, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere; has been quoted and interviewed countless times for print, television, and radio; and has spoken to hundreds of audiences in fourteen countries.
David Fridley is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where he is deputy group leader of the China Energy Group. His work has involved extensive collaboration with China on end-use energy efficiency and modeling, industrial energy use, energy policy research, low-carbon city development, and energy supply assessment. He has published dozens of articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored chapters in three books. Prior to joining LBNL he was a consultant on downstream oil markets in the Asia-Pacific region and a business development manager for Caltex China. He is a Fellow of Post Carbon Institute.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Our Renewable Future
Book Subtitle: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy
Authors: Richard Heinberg, David Fridley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-780-3
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Post Carbon Institute 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-780-3Published: 22 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sustainable Development, Renewable and Green Energy, Climate Change Management and Policy