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Climate change and energy shortages are set to become the greatest challenges for humanity in the twenty-first century. While a few reports have given some indication about what can be done to come to grips with these problems, very little has been written about how these necessary changes can be brought about. A Renewable World outlines the key steps needed to make the crucial transition actually happen.

The latest climate research indicates that the challenge facing us is not just the reduction of our annual global emissions of greenhouse gases, but of their actual concentrations in the atmosphere. After years of inaction, urgent and comprehensive ...

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Climate change and energy shortages are set to become the greatest challenges for humanity in the twenty-first century. While a few reports have given some indication about what can be done to come to grips with these problems, very little has been written about how these necessary changes can be brought about. A Renewable World outlines the key steps needed to make the crucial transition actually happen.

The latest climate research indicates that the challenge facing us is not just the reduction of our annual global emissions of greenhouse gases, but of their actual concentrations in the atmosphere. After years of inaction, urgent and comprehensive action is now needed to turn an existential crisis for humanity into an opportunity to secure the well-being and prosperity of present and future generations.

This book shows how we can:

  • Accelerate the renewable energy revolution
  • Renew our local economies and our urban habitat
  • Renew the living systems of planet earth
  • Renew and invigorate international cooperation
Illustrated in full color, A Renewable World deals with a variety of urgent issues in a holistic, comprehensive, and accessible way.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781900322492
  • Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
  • Publication date: 10/13/2009
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 1,168,455
  • Product dimensions: 6.60 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author


Herbert Girardet is an author, filmmaker, and consultant focusing on sustainable development. He is director of programs of the World Future Council, and a former chairman of the Schumacher Society in the U.K. He is a recipient of a U.N. Global500 Award for outstanding environmental achievements. His previous books include The Gaia Atlas of Cities, 1992 and 1996; Cities, People, Planet: Urban Development and Climate Change, 2004 and 2008; and Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Change and Other Global Challenges, 2007.

Miguel Mendonça is research manager for the World Future Council. He works in both research and advocacy, focusing on renewable energy policy. He has worked on four continents, campaigning, coalition building, and speaking, and is a member of the steering committee of the Alliance for Renewable Energy.

Table of Contents

Dedication 6

Acknowledgements 7

Foreword Bianca Jagger Jagger, Bianca 8

Foreword Ashok Khosla Khosla, Ashok 10

Introduction and executive summary 12

List of acronyms and abbreviations 22

Ch. 1 Energy Change, Climate Change 25

Ch. 2 Carbon and the Biosphere 49

Ch. 3 Renewable Energy 75

Ch. 4 Towards Energy Equality 101

Ch. 5 Energy Sufficiency 121

Ch. 6 The Green-Collar Economy 141

Ch. 7 Renewing the City 161

Ch. 8 From Global to Local? 183

Ch. 9 Problem Technologies 203

Ch. 10 Going Deeper, Looking Further 223

References 238

Index 249

The World Future Council 255

About the Authors 256

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  • Anonymous

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    Climate Change right to the point

    I have read many books on climate change but there are only few that are as good as this one. Every chapter goes into fine detail of the topics (energy, climate, finance, poverty) and the history that lead up to it, analysing the problems without getting side-tracked.

    The first chapter on 'Energy Climate, Climate Change' reports on the economic and ecological impacts of the industrial revolution as well as the policy responses to it. We all know how the industrial revolution has changed our lives: mines, steelworks, cars, an increase in oil extraction and many other factors that resulted in air pollution and a long history of global warming.
    The book uses real examples, pictures and graphs to show what has happened in the past; how some major decisions have had such a great impact on our lives today - and therefore pointing out that whatever we decide to do will also have an affect on the future.

    We can't change what has been done but we can change what is ahead of us. "A Renewable World" ensures that the reader understands this and sees a lot of opportunities for personal as well as political steps in the right direction.

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