Green Gold: Japan, Germany, the United States, and the Race for Environmental Technology / Edition 1

by Curtis Moore

Overview

A crucial argument for today's environmentalists—startling proof that environmental regulation and environmental technologies are necessary for a strong economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807085318
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Publication date:	09/30/1995
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

Editorial Reviews

Lucid and compelling. . . On Capitol Hill, lawmakers writing energy and environmental policy would do well to peruse Green Gold.—The Washington Post Book World

From the Publisher

Twelve years of political and business leadership hostile to environmental protection has dissipated the U.S.'s once dominant position in a wide range of crucial technologies, according to this important study. Examining the technologies and policies of other nations, Moore, a lawyer and journalist, and Miller, director of the Center for Global Change at the University of Maryland, cite remarkable environmental and economic successes in Germany and Japan. While the U.S. has been unable to move technology from basic research to the marketplace, those two countries bridged that gap using technologies developed by U.S. taxpayer money. Moore and Miller delineate ways in which the U.S.'s declining share of global markets in cars, power-generating equipment and solar-cell production is related to our inferior environmental standards. They look at California's innovative policies and the failure of national policies, and tender their own recommendations. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

In eight chapters, Moore and Miller describe the U.S. indifference toward environmental technologies often developed with taxpayer funding through the Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, or Department of Energy. They succinctly catalog these missed opportunities-breakthroughs in fuel cells, electric power generation, car design/efficiency-that could have an enormous environmental and economic impact. By contrast, Germany and Japan, the authors believe, have foreseen the environment and their economies as mutually dependent, not antagonistic, partners. Two concluding chapters provide recom- mendations for change. The discussion is lively, timely, and clear. Recommended for all collections.-Michael D. Cramer, Virginia Polytechnic & State Univ. Lib., Blacksburg

Library Journal

Curtis, a former counsel to the US Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, and Miller (director, Center for Global Change, U. of Md.) go behind the scenes in Germany, Japan, and elsewhere to show how nations are staking their economic futures on developing new technologies aimed at protecting the environment. The authors uncover the reasons behind the US' failure to keep up with Germany and Japan's innovations in environmental technology, and discuss new technologies such as cleaner energy sources and more efficient industrial processes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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