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But what is this energy sector we have and how did it come about? Design professionals, planners, elected officials, and community leaders are under tremendous pressure to find solutions to climate change. They need a broader view of America's relationship with energy to gain perspective on how new ideas might work. Energy in America tells this story, emphasizing that energy use has always been based on cultural factors as well as technology.
Energy in America relates how coal, oil and natural gas built the nation from its beginning and created today's consumer culture. It continues with the rise of the electric utility industry and its influence on American society. Finally, it explores the 1970s, when America woke to conservation and efficiency, and the renewable energy industries were born. It concludes with a look at the future possibilities for community energy planning and current trends in sustainable energy policy. The book features a comprehensive energy timeline from 1775 to the present. Each chapter provides primary web sources, and the book contains a complete index.
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"Ingrid Kelley's extraordinarily ambitious book aims to help 'give us the freedom to make radical new choices' about our energy future. She succeeds because of the depth of her understanding of our energy history, her refusal to be shackled by choices already made, and her deep understanding of our boundless opportunities to get more work out of much less electricity, natural gas and oil."--Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, Natural Resources Defense Council"In Energy in America: A Tour of Our Fossil Fuel Culture and Beyond, Ingrid Kelley delivers a concise yet comprehensive explanation of the key intersections of energy, the environment, the economy, and sustainability. Kelley describes how our power is generated and delivered, how to cut our still profligate use of it, what renewable energy options are open to us, and - most important to this audience - how planners can apply the lessons of sustainability in their communities . . . the chapter titled "Community Energy and Sustainability" is a goldmine for planners . . . I plan to use Kelley's book this spring as a text in my graduate school class on climate change. In fact, I think it should be on every planner's shelf."--Planning Magazine
"The chapters on energy efficiency and conservation, and on community energy and sustainability, are especially good and well worth reading. Particularly important are the discussions of how ordinary citizens or community groups can participate in decision-making and affect energy policy as it might impact their communities or regions." --Centre Daily Times, PA
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