A Renewable World - Energy, Ecology, Equality

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This timely book explores proven and emerging solutions for building a global green energy economy as a basis for a prosperous and yet sustainable world.

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We have turned our home planet into a disposable world, using resources as though there were no tomorrow. It is time to make it a renewable world instead.

We must urgently reconcile two things: our common desire to achieve certain living standards, and our requirement to do so sustainably. And we must do this in the face of the quadruple crisis facing us - climate, energy, finance and poverty.

This timely book explores proven and emerging solutions for building a global green energy economy as a basis for a prosperous and yet sustainable world. Only a world based on continuous renewal can sustain life and livelihoods. This book shares many examples and proposals for:

• Accelerating the renewable energy revolution
• Renewing the world's ecosystems and soils
• Renewing cities and local economies
• Invigorating international cooperation

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"Here's the book we've been waiting for: a thorough, up-to-date, and above all proportionate response to our climate predicament. When I say proportionate, I mean: it tells us how to solve the problem we really have, not the one we wish we had. It's truly important!" - Bill McKibben, founder, 350.org

"Moving towards a green economy requires focused and smart public policies to enable new markets to emaerge. The story of renewable energy and feed-in tariffs presented in the book provides a powerful illustration of how consumers and producers of clean energy can - given the right policy framework - transform the market for energy almost overnight." - Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UNEP

"A Renewable World is based on the renewable gifts of sun, soil. and seed. This is how sustainable societies of the South, especially the women, have kept society fed and clothed over millennia. This important book highlights the solutions that allow is to regenerate our renewable natural capitol and reduce our ecological footprint, while increasing human welfare." - Vandana Shiva, scientist and sctivist

We have turned our home planet into a disposable world, using resources as though there were no tomorrow. It is time to make it a renewable world instead.

We must urgently reconcile two things: our common desire to achieve certain living standards, and our requirement to do so sustainably. And we must do this in the face of the quadruple crisis facing us - climate, energy, finance and poverty.

This timely book explores proven and emerging solutions for building a global green energy economy as a basis for a prosperous and yet sustainable world. Only a world based on continuous renewal can sustain life and livelihoods. This book shares many examples and proposals for:

• Accelerating the renewable energy revolution
• Renewing the world's ecosystems and soils
• Renewing cities and local economies
• Invigorating international cooperation

Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Bianca Jagger
Foreword by Ashok Khosla
Introduction and executive summary
List of acronyms and abbreviations
Chapter 1 -  Energy Change, Climate Change
Chapter 2 -  Carbon and the Biosphere
Chapter 3 -  Renewable Energy
Chapter 4 -  Towards Energy Equality
Chapter 5 -  Energy Sufficiency
Chapter 6 -  The Green-Collar Economy
Chapter 7 -  Renewing the City
Chapter 8 -  From Global to Local?
Chapter 9 -  Problem Technologies
Chapter 10 -  Going Deeper, Looking Further
Refreneces
Index
The World Future Council
About the Authors

 

Product Details

ISBN: 1900322498
Author: Miguel Mendonça, Herbert Girardet
Publisher: Green Books
Copyright: 2009
Binding: Softbound
Language: English
Illustrations:
Pages: 208

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