The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hybrid and Alternative Fuel Vehicles

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hybrid and Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Author: Jack R. Nerad
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781592576357

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hybrid and Alternative Fuel Vehicles, by car expert Jack R. Nerad of Kelly's Blue Book, sorts out the dizzying array of choices faced by motorists in America. In clear, jargon-free and non-political language, Nerad explains the nature of each kind of car, their advantages and disadvantages, so that consumers can understand and make a practical choice.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living
Author: Trish Riley
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2007
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9781592576623

The environmental movement and the rising awareness of global warming have spiked an interest in green living. It's not just recycling now. People want to know what they can do to live sustainable lives. What changes do they need to make as consumers and citizens? What are the relative impacts of the changes-that is, which will have the greater impact? They've made up their minds that green living is their goal, so they're not asking for a sermon. They just want simple, how-to facts.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in Your 20s & 30s, 4E

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in Your 20s & 30s, 4E
Author: Sarah Fisher
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2009-06-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101100796

A wise investment. Revised and updated, this new edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s explains all the basic information anyone in this age group will need to manage their personal finances or enhance their financial plan to yield better returns on their investments. *Covers 401(k) and retirement planning plus investment strategies for the next decade *Budgeting tips forspiraling food and fuel costs, as well as the financial impacts of changing jobs and growing families *Homeownership options from building from scratch to townhouses and Condos *Up-to-date information on internetbanking and online mortgage brokers Download a sample chapter.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Greening Your Business

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Greening Your Business
Author: Trish Riley
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781592578856

The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Greening Your Business provides the most up-to-date concrete, practical steps to take to make money by going green. Setting practical, achievable goals for the right green initiative. Streamlining operations. Innovative staffing strategies to save commuting time and office overhead. Cutting fuel and energy costs. Understanding carbon credits and their value. Making your products greener. Green manufacturing, packaging, and shipping initiatives. Paperless marketing programs, precision-targeted to get more from less. Businesses are always looking to increase their profitability and market share. With rising fossil-fuel costs, consumers searching for environmentally responsible companies, and mounting need for green or greener products, business has jumped on the green initiative and reaped the financial benefits.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Renewable Energy for Your Home

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Renewable Energy for Your Home
Author: Brita Belli
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2009-07-07
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1101104953

An essential how-to on powering your home with sun, wind, water, and more. For readers wanting to save money-and the planet-by using alternative energy, this book provides everything they need to know. The five basic sources are fully covered: sun, wind, water, earth, and bio. The benefits, what is needed, and whether it will work for a particular home are all carefully laid out in this comprehensive overview: ? Solar energy for home heating, water heating, and electricity ? Wind power, hydrogen, and micro hydro power ? Heat pumps-air, geothermal, and water source ? Heating with wood and going bio

Electric Cars

Electric Cars
Author: Jennifer MacKay
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2011-09-12
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1420508016

Author Jennifer MacKay focuses on the invention of electric cars, exploring how it was developed, how it works, its impact on society, and possible future uses.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Saving the Environment

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Saving the Environment
Author: Greg Pahl
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2000-12-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0028639820

Discusses the three main global threats--decline in biodiversity, the thinning of the ozone layer, and global warming--and offers ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

All About Electric and Hybrid Cars (and Who's Driving Them)

All About Electric and Hybrid Cars (and Who's Driving Them)
Author: Stephanie Bearce
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2010-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1612282415

What's the big deal about hybrid cars? Why are so many celebrities driving them? Are these cars really better than gasoline-powered cars? You can learn how hybrid cars work and explore new inventions in the automotive industry. Discover vehicles powered by hydrogen and cars that run on sunshine. Learn how to reduce your own carbon footprint and help your family save gasoline. It's all possible when you explore the world of hybrid cars.

High Voltage

High Voltage
Author: Jim Motavalli
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2011-11-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1609613236

A behind-the-scenes look at the robustly competitive race to dominate the market for electric cars, the larger-than-life moguls behind them, and the changes that are transforming the auto industry In the 1980s, it was unimaginable that the home computer would become as common and easy to use as a toaster. Today, plug-in charging stations and smart grids seem like something still far off in the future. But by 2020, the auto industry will look very different from today's field of troubled auto giants. The combination of technological breakthroughs and charging networks driven by global warming and peak oil makes it clear that revolutionary change in the auto industry is happening right now. In High Voltage, Jim Motavalli captures this period of unprecedented change, documenting the evolution from internal combustion engines to electric power. Driven by the auto world's ambitious and sometimes outlandish personalities, the book chronicles the race to dominate the market, focusing on big players like Tesla and Fisker, as well as a tiny start-up and a battery supplier. Flashing forward to the changes we'll see in the coming years, High Voltage shows a not-so-distant future where we will live on a smart grid, our cars "fueling," that is, charging, while we shop or sleep. The ramifications of these changes will be on a grander scale than most of us ever imagined—altering foreign policy, reducing trade deficits, and perhaps even ending global warming.