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The world is entering the Third Industrial Revolution, an era of remarkable progress in science and technology that will require a global shift away from reliance on fossil-fuel and carbon-based energy. This book explains how America can lead the effort to reverse global warming and become the world leader in global energy innovation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A New Carbonless and Sustainable Era Is at America's Doorstep 2. The Problem: Climate Change and Its Global Impact 3. Asia Leads the GIR: Japan and South Korea 4. Europe Joins the GIR 5. China Leapfrogs into the GIR 6. Sustainable Communities 7. Renewable Energy Integrated Systems 8. Smart Green Grids in the GIR 9. Emerging Commercial Technologies Empower the GIR 10. The Next Economics 11. The Race for Global Energy Innovation Has Begun: Where Is America? References Index

About the Author

Woodrow W. Clark II, MA3, PhD, is a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the UN IPCC. He is an author, serial entrepreneur, and consultant on sustainable communities who teaches at universities in the United States, the EU, and China. Grant Cooke, MJ, is an award-winning journalist, college administrator, and a pioneer businessman in California's energy efficiency and energy renewable industries.

Reviews

The book is almost unique in its genre because it encompasses technologies, business plans, government initiatives, and major impediments to the Green Industrial Revolution (GIR). This is done broadly but clearly, with enough to interest the lay reader, and without resort to scare exhortations. . . . This hopeful book provides clear exposition, with lots of facts and figures, of the status of the Third, or Green, Industrial Revolution and illustrates potential alternatives to the disastrous energy path the United States is following.
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