"A groundbreaking book on solving our growing energy problems. In this visionary book, leading energy industry executive Robert Hefner puts forth a convincing case about how the world can move beyond its current dependence on oil and toward a new era of clean, renewable energy. Written with the...

At a time when contemporary challenges seem to many to be insurmountable, this book offers an optimistic view of the future and provides a road map for societies to get there. Drawing upon extensive research and many years as a thought leader in environmental and sustainability issues in Japan...

There has been a great deal of talk about whether and how China will manage its need to provide enough energy to ensure continued economic growth while avoiding the local and global environmental impacts of its energy production and use. To listen to the political discourse, China is either a...

"At a time when climate-change deniers hold the reins of power in the United States, what options are available to cities, companies, and consumers around the world who seek a cleaner future? In this book, Scott Victor Valentine, Marilyn A. Brown, and Benjamin K. Sovacool explore the many...

Investments in renewable energy play a key role in achieving global climate goals. Favourable policies have attracted a lot of private capital to solar and wind technologies from a wide range of investors in the last decade. In the meantime, the costs of these technologies have declined...

Abstract: Die Autoren analysieren vor dem Hintergrund der Ziele der Energiewende die Defizite der momentanen Förderung erneuerbarer Energien und das Potenzial für ihre Integration in den Strommarkt. Darauf aufbauend analysieren die Autoren als Reformoptionen (a) eine Anpassung des bisherigen...

There are no technofixes. Neither 'clean' energy nor 'green' capitalism will preserve our lands, rivers, oceans, health, and lives. Neither governments nor corporations nor 'the market' can bring us out of the netherworld they themselves have created. Mother Earth calls to the grass-roots for...