Energy Innovation - Fixing the Technical Fix
Author | : Lewis Perelman |
Publisher | : Lewis Perelman |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0985519614 |
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Author | : Lewis Perelman |
Publisher | : Lewis Perelman |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0985519614 |
Author | : Bill Gates |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2021-02-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0385546149 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
Author | : Michael Huesemann |
Publisher | : New Society Publishers |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2011-10-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 155092494X |
Nanotechnology! Genetic engineering! Miracle Drugs! We are promised that new technological developments will magically save us from the dire consequences of the 300-year fossil-fueled binge known as modern industrial civilization, without demanding any fundamental changes in our behavior. There is a pervasive belief that technological innovation will enable us to continue our current lifestyle indefinitely and will prevent social, economic and environmental collapse. Techno-Fix shows that negative unintended consequences of technology are inherently predictable and unavoidable, techno-optimism is completely unjustified, and modern technology, in the presence of continued economic growth, does not promote sustainability, but hastens collapse. The authors demonstrate that most technological solutions to social and technology-created problems are ineffective. They explore the reasons for the uncritical acceptance of new technologies, show who really controls the direction of technological change, and then advocate extensive reform. This comprehensive exposé is a powerful argument for why we can and should put the genie back in the bottle. An insightful and powerful critique, it is required reading for anyone who is concerned about blind techno-optimism and believes that the time has come to make science and technology more socially and environmentally responsible. For more information, please visit technofix.org .
Author | : Dr. Debra J. Davidson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2018-07-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0190633867 |
The Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society presents an overview of this expanding area that has evolved dramatically over the past decade, away from one largely dominated by structural, political economic treatments on the one hand, and social-psychological studies of individual-level attitudes and behaviors on the other, toward a far more conceptually and methodologically rich and exciting field that brings in, for example, social practices, system complexity, risk theory, social studies of science, and social movements theories. This volume seeks to capture the variety of scales and methods, and range of both conceptual and empirical analyses that define the field, while drawing particular attention to indigenous peoples, poverty, political power, communities and cities. Organized into seven sections, chapters cover social theory and energy-society relations, political-economic perspectives, consumption dynamics, energy equity and energy poverty, energy and publics, energy and governance, as well as emerging trends.
Author | : Alison E. Woodward |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2019-06-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0429560648 |
Originally published in 1994. The energy crisis of the 1970s provided an opportune climate for public sector entrepreneurship to develop. The authors present case studies from six innovative and diverse municipalities in Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and the United States. The studies document problems these communities encountered while implementing new ideas in energy conservation and changes in energy supply and municipal planning. Each community was selected on the basis of its early, vigorous response to the energy crisis, and then followed up to examine roadblocks along the way to innovation in the public sector. The case studies highlight the challenges policy entrepreneurs face and the tactics they employ, revealing crucial differences between public and private sector entrepreneurship.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2012-11-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264174575 |
This book presents a series of papers that explore the extent to which technological innovation can lower the cost of achieving climate change mitigation objectives.
Author | : Les Levidow |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2023-05-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1529222419 |
Political elites have been evading the causes of climate change through deceptive fixes. Their market-type instruments such as carbon trading aim to incentivise technological innovation which will supposedly decarbonize or replace dominant high-carbon systems. In practice this techno-market framework has perpetuated climate change and social injustices, thus provoking public controversy. Using this opportunity, social movements have counterposed low-carbon, resource-light, socially just alternatives. Such transformative mobilisations can fulfil the popular slogan, ‘System Change Not Climate Change’. This book develops key critical concepts through case studies such as GM crops, biofuels, waste incineration and Green New Deal agendas.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1584 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Energy policy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1646 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Fossil fuels |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tom Collier |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1135822727 |
This second book in the BEST series explores the fundamental generators and contextual issues - philosophical, physical and political - that influence built environments. It draws on international examples to show how societies and cultures in different parts of the world react to similar problems. It contrasts dramatically different types of buildings and enclosures from primitive shelters to space laboratories. They show how mankind endeavours to control the environment - whatever it is.