CITIZEN-POWERED ENERGY HANDBOOK by Pahl, Greg - COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS TO A GLOBAL CRISIS : Lifestyle & Food

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Global warming is for real, and getting worse faster than previously expected. The oil peak looms, and cheap petrol is a thing of the past. We face an energy crisis. This book tells you what you need to do to meet the challenge.

The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook assesses the current energy situation and points toward a sustainable path forward. Greg Pahl examines renewable energy technologies currently available and homes in on strategies that can be adopted by individuals and, especially, communities. Such cooperative initiatives have been common in Europe for years and are beginning to gain a foothold in the USA because these medium-scale projects bring people together to create collective energy security for a neighbourhood, town, or region while strengthening the local economy.

Each chapter focuses on a different renewable energy sector-solar, wind, water, biomass, liquid biofuels, and geothermal-then reviews their advantages and disadvantages and describes numerous examples of proven local initiatives. The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook is an eloquent appeal and a practical handbook for community and regional action to deal head-on with environmental challenges and to take responsibility for energy supplies now controlled by large, distant utilities and consortiums.

The Author: Greg Pahl, author of Biodiesel: Growing the New Economy and Natural Home Heating: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Options, has been following renewable energy issues for more than 25 years. He lives in Weybridge, Vermont.

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