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The Energy Reader
Laura Nader (Edited by), L Nader (Author)
9781405199841, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 23 April 2010
576 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 3.4 cm, 0.998 kg
“Overall, The Energy Reader provides a necessary, timely, and unique collection of materials to drive these critical conversations forward.” (Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, 12 June 2013)
The Energy Reader presents a series of readings that examine the energy problem from an anthropological perspective and look at energy holistically, including social and cultural components and long term implications for global and social environmental change.
List of Figures xii List of Tables xiv Preface xv Laura Nader Acknowledgments xx Introduction 1 Part I The Energy Problem 17 1. Social Power and the Future 19 2. Energy and the Rise of American Industrial Society 32 3. Energy Transitions in Historical Perspective 45 Energy in Action 1 61 Contemplating the Abyss: The Role of Environmental Degradation in the Collapse of Human Societies 4. Introduction to the Steady-State Economy 65 Energy in Action 2 84 Net-Zero Energy Home Generating an Energy Surplus 5. Dimensions of the ‘‘People Problem’’ in Energy Research and ‘‘the’’ Factual Basis of Dispersed Energy Futures 87 6. Red Land and Uranium Mining: How the Search for Energy Is Endangering Indian Tribal Lands 105 Energy in Action 3 110 How Energy Search Challenges Indian Tribal Life 7. The House that Uranium Built: Perspectives on the Effects of Exposure on Individuals and Community 113 8. Uranium Mining and Milling: Navajo Experiences in the American Southwest 132 Part II Mind-Sets – a Critical Perspective 147 9. ‘‘Introduction,’’ The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin and Growth 149 10. On the Road to Riches 162 11. Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken? 166 12. Barriers to Thinking New About Energy 198 13. The Three-Cornered Constellation: Magic, Science, and Religion Revisited 205 14. Energy as it Relates to the Quality and Style of Life 219 15. Conclusions – Replacing Myths with Maxims: Rethinking the Relationship Between Energy and American Society 246 Part III The Politics of Energy 265 16. ‘‘Prologue,’’ The Politics of Energy 267 17. The Middle East: Geostrategy and Oil 271 18. Winning the Oil Endgame 282 19. ‘‘Introduction,’’ Power Struggle: The 100 Year War Over Electricity 287 20. The Overcharge in the Light Bill 290US Senator Lee Metcalf and Vic Reinemer 21. Human Rights 305 Energy in Action 4 309 Three Mile Island: 30th Anniversary of the Worst Nuclear Accident in US History 22. The Politics of Energy: Toward a Bottom-Up Approach 313 Energy in Action 5 318 A New Gang Comes to Los Angeles: Solar-Panel Installers Part IV Energy Choices 321 23. ‘‘Introduction,’’ ‘‘The Problem of Externalities,’’ and ‘‘Coal and Corporate Power,’’ Coal: A Memoir and Critique 323 Energy in Action 6 351 Rural Renewal: Small-Town America Looks to Alternative Energy for a Lifeline 24. There Was Blood 353 Energy in Action 7 363 Capitol Climate Action: Mass Civil Disobedience in DC Against Use of Coal at Capitol Hill Power Plant 25. Unconventional Crude: Canada’s Synthetic-Fuels Boom 368 Energy in Action 8 377 Poop Powers California Cars as Orange County Converts Sewage 26. Nuclear Power: Climate Fix or Folly? 380 Energy in Action 9 399 Power Q&A: S. David Freeman 27. Solar Possibilities 402 Energy in Action 10 413 Workers Retrain for Wind-Energy Jobs 28. Cool Communities: Strategies for Heat Island Mitigation and Smog Reduction 415 Energy in Action 11 439 First Rosebud Wind Turbine Generates Support: An Interview with Intertribal COUP Secretary Robert Gough 29. Ethanol Production: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Losses 442 Energy in Action 12 458 Biofuels Do Far More Harm Than Good Part V Power Shifts 461 30. Natural Capitalism 463 Energy in Action 13 476 With Energy in Focus, Heat Pumps Win Fans 31. An Unstable Concoction of Interests 479 Tadeusz W. Patzek Energy in Action 14 481 Shell Dumps Wind, Solar and Hydro Power in Favor of Biofuels 32. Ticket to Ride 48 Energy in Action 15 487 Get on the Bus 33. Selling the Sun 488 Energy in Action 16 498 Eight Energy Suggestions for Obama, from SunEdison’s Founder 34. The Island in the Wind 500 Energy in Action 17 514 A Cool Idea Part VI Energy Choices in a Democratic Society 515 35. The Harder Path – Shifting Gears 517 Energy in Action 18 535 The Showhouse that Sustainability Built 36. Who Shall Decide? 538 Index 541
Laura Nader, Leticia Cesarino, and Chris Hebdon
Richard Newbold Adams
Ian Barbour, Harvey Brooks, Sanford Lakoff, and John Opie
Martin Melosi
William Rees
Herman E. Daly
Laura Nader and Norman Milleron
Winona La Duke
Mark Stevens
Margaret Amalia Hiesinger
Barbara Rose Johnston, Susan E. Dawson, and Gary E. Madsen
Charles A. Beard
Henry Ford
Amory B. Lovins
Laura Nader
Laura Nader
Laura Nader and Stephen Beckerman
Benjamin K. Sovacool and Marilyn A. Brown
Barry Commoner
Rashid Khalidi
Amory B. Lovins
Richard Rudolph and Scott Ridley
Jim Garrison and Pyare Shivpuri
Laura Nader
Miriam Jordan
Duane Lockard
Jennifer Vogel
Caleb Crain
Elizabeth Kolbert
Alan Ohnsman
Amory B. Lovins, Imran Sheikh, and Alex Markevich
Dave Gilson
Denis Hayes
Maria Dickerson
Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Hashem Akbari, Joseph J. Romm, and Melvin Pomerantz
Tara Tidwell
David Pimentel, Tad Patzek, and Gerald Cecil
George Monbiot
Paul Hawken
Liz Galst
Tim Webb
Ben Adler
Laura C. Dean
Michael Behar
Kate Galbraith
Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert
Laura Nader
Barnaby J. Feder
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Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
