Earth the operators' manual
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prepare to come about
- Burning to learn
- Peak trees and peak whale oil
- Fossil fuelish; some telling facts
- Abraham Lincoln or your brother-in-law?
- Red, white, and blue-green
- Canting the kayak
- Why accountants and physicists care about the past
- The moving finger writes
- And having writ, moves on
- The great ice that covers the land
- Kindergarten soccer and the last century of climate
- But my brother-in-law said
- The future
- Valuing the future
- Toilets and the smart grid
- Sustainable solutions on the wind
- Sun and water
- Down by the sea, where the water power grows
- Power from the land
- Put it where the sun doesn't shine: nuclear energy and carbon
- Conservation; why saving energy doesn't mean sitting around in the dark
- Game-changers? geoengineering, fusion, and
- Ten billion and smiling.
