The Conundrum : how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our en...
The Conundrum : how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our en...
The Conundrum : how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our energy and climate problems worse / David Owen.
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Brunswick : Scribe Publications, 2012.
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2012.
Date
2012.
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English
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1 online resource (272 pages)
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computer
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online resource
Contents
About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 The Conundrum; 2 Setting Things on Fire; 3 Fossil Fuels as Credit Card; 4 LEED-Certified Landfill; 5 Problems Innovate, Too; 6 The Greenest Community in the United States; 7 Learning from Manhattan; 8 Unconsciously Green; 9 Sierra Club or Man...
18 The Coal Question19 How Increasing Efficiency Causes Overall Energy Consumption to Rise; 20 Rebound Creep; 21 The Importance of Less; 22 What Would a Truly Green Car Look Like?; 23 Plentiful, Inexpensive Natural Gas Is Not an Environmental Solution; 24 Cheap, Efficient Lighting Is Not an Environm...
31 The Discouraging Economics of Innovation32 Getting from Lab to Grid; 33 Retrograde Innovation; 34 The Conundrum.
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Publisher
Brunswick : Scribe Publications, 2012.
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2012.
Place of Publication
Victoria
Date Published
2012.
2012.
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The Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency, and the real path to sustainability. Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact fluorescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: everything you've been told about living green is wrong. In this elegant, fascinating narrative, David Owen takes you through the history of energ...
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The Conundrum : how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our energy and climate problems worse / David Owen.
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Print version Owen, David Conundrum : how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our energy and climate problems worse Brunswick : Scribe Publications, c2012 9781921844829
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9781921942648 EPUB :
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628
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991024332544602626
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