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| List of Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Energy Problem | |
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| Social Power and the Future | |
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| Energy and the Rise of American Industrial Society | |
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| Energy Transitions in Historical Perspective | |
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| Contemplating the Abyss: The Role of Environmental Degradation in the Collapse of Human Societies | |
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| Introduction to the Steady-State Economy | |
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| Net-Zero Energy Home Generating an Energy Surplus | |
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| Dimensions of the "People Problem" in Energy Research and "the" Factual Basis of Dispersed Energy Futures | |
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| Red Land and Uranium Mining: How the Search for Energy Is Endangering Indian Tribal Lands | |
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| How Energy Search Challenges Indian Tribal Life | |
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| The House that Uranium Built: Perspectives on the Effects of Exposure on Individuals and Community | |
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| Uranium Mining and Milling: Navajo Experiences in the American Southwest | |
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| Mind-Sets - a Critical Perspective | |
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| "Introduction," The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin and Growth | |
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| On the Road to Riches | |
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| Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken? | |
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| Barriers to Thinking New About Energy | |
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| The Three-Cornered Constellation: Magic, Science, and Religion Revisited | |
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| Energy as it Relates to the Quality and Style of Life | |
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| Conclusions - Replacing Myths with Maxims: Rethinking the Relationship Between Energy and American Society | |
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| The Politics of Energy | |
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| "Prologue," The Politics of Energy | |
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| The Middle East: Geostrategy and Oil | |
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| Winning the Oil Endgame | |
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| "Introduction," Power Struggle: The 100 Year War Over Electricity | |
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| The Overcharge in the Light Bill | |
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| Human Rights | |
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| Three Mile Island: 30th Anniversary of the Worst Nuclear Accident in US History | |
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| The Politics of Energy: Toward a Bottom-Up Approach | |
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| A New Gang Comes to Los Angeles: Solar-Panel Installers | |
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| Energy Choices | |
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| "Introduction," "The Problem of Externalities," and "Coal and Corporate Power," Coal: A Memoir and Critique | |
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| Rural Renewal: Small-Town America Looks to Alternative Energy for a Lifeline | |
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| There Was Blood | |
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| Capitol Climate Action: Mass Civil Disobedience in DC Against Use of Coal at Capitol Hill Power Plant | |
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| Unconventional Crude: Canada's Synthetic-Fuels Boom | |
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| Poop Powers California Cars as Orange County Converts Sewage | |
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| Nuclear Power: Climate Fix or Folly? | |
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| Power Q&A: S. David Freeman | |
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| Solar Possibilities | |
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| Workers Retrain for Wind-Energy Jobs | |
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| Cool Communities: Strategies for Heat Island Mitigation and Smog Reduction | |
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| First Rosebud Wind Turbine Generates Support: An Interview with Intertribal COUP Secretary Robert Gough | |
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| Ethanol Production: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Losses | |
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| Biofuels Do Far More Harm Than Good | |
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| Power Shifts | |
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| Natural Capitalism | |
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| With Energy in Focus, Heat Pumps Win Fans | |
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| An Unstable Concoction of Interests | |
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| Shell Dumps Wind, Solar and Hydro Power in Favor of Biofuels | |
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| Ticket to Ride | |
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| Get on the Bus | |
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| Selling the Sun | |
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| Eight Energy Suggestions for Obama, from SunEdison's Founder | |
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| The Island in the Wind | |
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| A Cool Idea | |
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| Energy Choices in a Democratic Society | |
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| The Harder Path - Shifting Gears | |
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| The Showhouse that Sustainability Built | |
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| Who Shall Decide? | |
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| Index | |