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  Title

  Green illusions : the dirty secrets of clean energy and the future of environmentalism

  Author

  Zehner, Ozzie.  

  Publisher:

  University of Nebraska Press,

  Pub date:

  c2012.

  Pages:

  xx, 437 p. :

  ISBN:

  9780803237759

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    TJ807.9 .U6 Z44 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780803237759 (cloth : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  0803237758 (cloth : alk. paper)

  029:

  AU@ 000048035543

  029:

  NZ1 14683224

  Personal Author:

  Zehner, Ozzie.

  Title:

  Green illusions : the dirty secrets of clean energy and the future of environmentalism / Ozzie Zehner.

  Publication info:

  Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.

  Physical description:

  xx, 437 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

  Series Statement:

  (Our sustainable future)

  Contents:

  I: Seductive futures -- Solar cells and other fairy tales -- Wind power's flurry of limitations -- Biofuels and the politics of big corn -- The nuclear-military-industrial risk complex -- The hydrogen zombie -- Conjuring clean coal -- Hydropower, hybrids, and other hydras -- II: From here to there -- The alternative-energy fetish -- The first step -- III: The future of environmentalism -- Women's rights -- Improving consumption -- The architecture of community -- Efficiency culture -- Asking questions -- Epilogue: A grander narrative?

  Summary:

  We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what's wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem.

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  TODD

  Subject term:

  Renewable energy sources--United States.

  Subject term:

  Environmentalism--United States.

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