Harvest the Wind America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability

Name: Harvest the Wind America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability
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ISBN: 9780807000496

ISBN-10: 0807000493

ISBN-13: 9780807000496

Edition: 2012

Authors: Philip Warburg

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Winds sweeping through the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to the declining rural communities of the central United States. Nowhere is wind’s promise more palpable than in Cloud County, Kansas, where the soaring turbines of the Meridian Way Wind Farm are boosting incomes and bringing green jobs to a community that has, for decades, watched its children drift away.InHarvest the Wind, Philip Warburg brings readers face-to-face with the people behind the green economy–powered resurgence in Cloud County and communities like it across the United…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 4/23/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.97" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Introduction



Cloud County Revival



Early Adopters



Rust Belt Renewables



The Chinese Are Coming



Working the Wind



The Path to Cleaner Energy



Birds and Bats



The Neighbors



Greening the Grid


Epilogue


Tables


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index