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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Inslee, Jay. Apollo's fire. Washington, DC : Island Press, c2008 (OCoLC)655179409 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jay Inslee; Bracken Hendricks |
| ISBN: | 9781597261753 1597261750 9781597263825 1597263826 |
| OCLC Number: | 150255581 |
| Description: | xviii, 387 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / President Bill Clinton -- The first Apollo Project -- ch. 1. A new Apollo Project for energy -- Global warming comes to the White House, or doesn't -- Ten energy enlightenments -- ch. 2. Reinventing the car -- Becoming Mahatma -- ch. 3. Waking up to the new solar dawn -- When energy markets go wrong : surviving Enron -- ch. 4. Energy efficiency : the distributed power of democracy -- Green-collar jobs : from the South Bronx to Oakland -- ch. 5. Reenergizing our communities, one project at a time -- "We don't need oil" -- ch. 6. Homegrown energy -- Wind energy : false starts on the road to success -- ch. 7. Sailing in a sea of energy -- A mind opened about mined coal -- ch. 8. Can coal or nuclear be part of the solution? -- The Apollo Alliance : new coalitions for change -- ch. 9. What's it going to take? -- A tale of two presidents -- ch. 10. An American energy policy -- Placing our bets on a new Apollo Project -- Lessons of the mimosa tree -- Stories from the field -- Epilogue : Launching Apollo -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks ; foreword by Bill Clinton. |
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Abstract:
The vision of Apollo Energy Project is to revolutionize the production of energy and save our planet. This book deals with the energy economy growth, the research required, and the legislation that must be passed to make the vision a reality. Based on facts, it contains stories of the people who are on the front lines of the energy revolution.
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""Apollo''s Fire" gets the situation almost exactly right."--Bill McKIbben "SEED magazine "
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