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An edition of Hot, flat, and crowded: why we need a green revolution and how it can renew America (2008)

Hot, flat, and crowded

why we need a green revolution-- and how it can renew America

1st ed.

by , , , , and

  • ★★★★ 4.0 (5 ratings)
  • 18 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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English
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Environmental conditions Social conditions Green movement Climatic changes Environmental aspects of Power resources Green technology Environmental aspects Environmental policy Power resources Energy policy Environnement Miljöfrågor Usa Conditions sociales Ökologische Bewegung Écologisme Climate Erneuerung Ecology Miljöpolitik Environmental protection Climatic change Energy resources Government policy Government Gröna rörelsen Socioeconomic organization China Energy policies Renewable energy resources Environmental policies Reading Level-Grade 7 Reading Level-Grade 9 Reading Level-Grade 8 Reading Level-Grade 11 Reading Level-Grade 10 Reading Level-Grade 12 Environmental policy, united states Energy policy, united states United states, environmental conditions United states, social conditions, 1980- Large type books nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2008-09-28 New York Times bestseller New York Times reviewed Green movement--united states Green technology--united states Power resources--environmental aspects Environmental policy--united states Energy policy--united states Ge197 .f76 2009 363.705250973 Climate--government policy Climate--government policy--united states Energy resources--united states Renewable energy resources--united states Ge197 .f75 2008b 320.5/8 LEADERSHIP Technologie de protection de l'environnement Climat Changements Ressources énergétiques Aspect de l'environnement Politique gouvernementale Politique énergétique Climate change United states, social conditions Population Écologie Sciences de l'environnement Changement global (Environnement) Politique de l'environnement Politique économique Politique environnementale Réchauffement climatique Sécurité énergétique

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2009, Akādīmiyā Intarnāshyunāl
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Hot, flat, and crowded: why we need a green revolution--and how it can renew America
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2009, Penguin Books, Limited
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Hot, flat, and crowded: why the world needs a green revolution--and how we can renew our global future
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Table of Contents

I. WHERE WE ARE. Where birds don't fly
Today's date: 1 E.C.E. Today's weather: hot, flat, and crowded
II. HOW WE GOT HERE. Our carbon copies (or, too many Americans)
Fill 'er up with dictators
Global weirding
The age of Noah
Energy poverty
Green is the new red, white, and blue
III. HOW WE MOVE FORWARD. 205 easy ways to save the earth
The energy internet: when IT meets ET
The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones
If it isn't boring, it isn't green
A million Noahs, a million arks
Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, buy one, get four free)
IV. CHINA. Can red China become green China?
V. AMERICA. China for a day (but not for two)
A democratic China, or a banana republic?

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Includes index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
320.5/8
Library of Congress
GE197 .F75 2008b, GE197 .F76 2008

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Hardcover
Pagination
438 p. :
Number of pages
438

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OL20964240M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0374166854
ISBN 13
9780374166854
LCCN
2008930589
OCLC/WorldCat
234316165
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5413834
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OL3740419W

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