A renewable world : energy, ecology, equality : a report for the World Future Council /
Girardet, Herbert.
A renewable world : energy, ecology, equality : a report for the World Future Council / Herbert Giradet & Miguel Mendonðca. - Totnes : Green Books, 2009. - 256 p. : chiefly col. ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-248) and index.
Energy change, climate change -- Carbon and the biosphere -- Renewable energy -- Towards energy equality -- Energy sufficiency -- The green-collar economy -- Renewing the city -- From global to local? -- Problem technologies -- Going deeper, looking further.
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; and invigorating international cooperation.
9781900322492 (pbk.) 1900322498 (pbk.)
GBA934023 bnb 015-10416 bnb GBA-93402 bnb
015104163 Uk
Environmental protection.
Sustainable development.
Sustainable living.
Green technology.
Conservación del medio ambiente.
Educación ambiental.
Recursos naturales.
Política ambiental.
TD 170 / G519a 2009
333.72
A renewable world : energy, ecology, equality : a report for the World Future Council / Herbert Giradet & Miguel Mendonðca. - Totnes : Green Books, 2009. - 256 p. : chiefly col. ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-248) and index.
Energy change, climate change -- Carbon and the biosphere -- Renewable energy -- Towards energy equality -- Energy sufficiency -- The green-collar economy -- Renewing the city -- From global to local? -- Problem technologies -- Going deeper, looking further.
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; and invigorating international cooperation.
9781900322492 (pbk.) 1900322498 (pbk.)
GBA934023 bnb 015-10416 bnb GBA-93402 bnb
015104163 Uk
Environmental protection.
Sustainable development.
Sustainable living.
Green technology.
Conservación del medio ambiente.
Educación ambiental.
Recursos naturales.
Política ambiental.
TD 170 / G519a 2009
333.72