TY - BOOK AU - Girardet,Herbert AU - Mendonðca,Miguel ED - World Future Council. TI - A renewable world: energy, ecology, equality : a report for the World Future Council SN - 9781900322492 (pbk.) AV - TD 170 G519a 2009 U1 - 333.72 PY - 2009/// CY - Totnes PB - Green Books KW - Environmental protection KW - Sustainable development KW - Sustainable living KW - Green technology KW - Conservación del medio ambiente KW - Educación ambiental KW - Recursos naturales KW - Política ambiental N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -