ENERGY and The ENERGY Reader include over 30 essays by some of the most insightful and expert voices exploring the consequences of our rapacious hunger for ever more energy. Contributors include Bill McKibben, Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Vandana Shiva, Richard Heinberg, Lester Brown, Amory Lovins, Sandra Steingraber, James Hansen, Winona LaDuke, and James Woolsey. Collectively, they offer a wake-up call about the future of energy and what each of us can do to change course.
Chapters from the books will be released throughout 2013 and made available as free, downloadable PDFs.
- Introduction
- A Deeper Look at the Energy Picture
- Five Carbon Pools
- Faustian Economics
- Life Affirming Beauty
- Global Ponzi Scheme
- Coal – The Greatest Threat to Civilization
- The View from Oil's Peak
- Energy Return on Investment
- Alternative Energy Challenges
- When Risk Assessment is Risky
- Malevolent and Malignant Threats
- Progress vs. Apocalypse
- The Landscape of Energy
- Drill Baby Drill
- Nuclear Power and the Earth
- The False Promise of Clean Coal
- The Whole Fracking Enchilada
- River Killers
- Will Drilling Spell the End?
- Tar Sands and the Threat to 1st Nations
- The Case for Conservation
- Distributed Renewable Gen.
- What We're For
- Backing the Front
- Gas Hydrates
- Regulatory Illusion
- Bioenergy
- Three Steps
- Outsourcing Pollution
- Retooling the Planet
- Sweet & Sour
- Oil Shale
- Reinventing Fire
- Cap the Grid
- Limits to Growth
- Protected Areas
- Afterword
Background image © George Wuerthner
