WORLDFIRE: A Climate Journey from the Depths of Despair to a Haven of Hope is Tom Weis’ powerful new book … Read more
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David Toke has a powerful story to tell in Energy Revolutions: Profiteering versus Democracy, his recently released book encapsulating a … Read more
Backstories of the Palm Springs Windmills by Thomas Spiglanin is a beautifully illustrated guide to the wind farms of the … Read more
La Puissance du Vent: Des moulins á vent aux éoliennes modernes by Philippe Bruyerre is a major work on the history of wind energy particularly in France, but also elsewhere. His book earns a place in French analogous to Matthias Heymann’s masterwork on German wind energy or Rinie van Est’s Winds of Change.
Guy Dauncey’s novel Journey to the Future: A Better World is Possible has been extolled by a who’s who of Canadian environmental thought leaders from Elizabeth May, onetime leader of Canada’s Green Party, to David Suzuki, TV personality and environmental activist. The book has also garnered laurels from the Green party of the UK and American progressive radio host Thom Hartmann.
David Toke’s China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions: The Stabilisation of Energy Consumption and the Deployment of Renewable Energy provides a valuable service in explaining–in English–China’s explosive rise to dominate world renewable energy development. Unless you work in the field you won’t realize that Chinese companies are leaders in wind, solar, and electric vehicles. If it wasn’t for Tesla in California, China’s dominance in EVs would be almost complete.
Germany’s Energy Transition is a compilation of articles on the progress of Germany’s revolutionary transition to renewable energy from fossil fuels and nuclear power. It joins a growing list of books in English explaining how the Germans were able to make such rapid progress and, importantly, what went wrong politically that has curbed further rapid growth.
For those who’ve fought the wind wars and done battle with renewable energy skeptics, climate denialists, and the “wind turbines cause cancer” crowd, Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Communicated Disease by Simon Chapman and Fiona Crichton is a welcome antidote.
“Long overdue, this guide on how to place renewable energy in the landscape to maximize public acceptance is critical to the energy transition that is so desperately needed.”
Small-Scale Renewable Energy Systems is a slim 210-page book on hybrid renewable projects by Swedish authors Sven Ruin and Göran Sidén.
