Introduction: the wind energy industry and the environmental movement -- The big picture -- Environmental campaigns and the adoption and implementation of feed-in tariffs -- Environmental campaigns and the adoption and implementation of renewable portfolio standards -- From thinking globally...

Renewable and solar energy technologies : energy and environmental issues / David Pimentel -- Can the Earth deliver the biomass-for-fuel we demand? / Tad W. Patzek -- A review of the economic rewards and risks of ethanol production / David Swenson -- Subsidies to ethanol in the United States /...

Introduction -- From Maoism to Lear jets -- Big industry moves in -- China shakes the wind industry -- Emerging powers -- The offshore frontier -- After Copenhagen -- Turbine manufacturers in trouble -- The wind industry bounces back -- Tipping point: windpower's iPhone moment -- Challenges for...