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: 9780807001073

ISBN-10: 0807001074

ISBN-13: 9780807001073

Edition: 2012

Authors: Philip Warburg

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Winds sweeping across 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, home to the Meridian Way Wind Farm, whose turbines are boosting farm incomes and bringing green jobs to a community that has watched its children flock elsewhere. Modern wind power is the best thing to hit this stretch of midwestern prairie since the Union Pacific railroad.InHarvest the Wind,Warburg brings us the people behind the green economy-powered…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 4/17/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.31" wide x 9.28" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



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