Coming Clean Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal

by Brune, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781578051496
• ISBN10: 1578051495
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Sierra Club Books

Summary

"Americans are awakening to just how costly and destructive our fossil-fuel habit has become - to the environment, our national security and stature, our health, and especially our pocketbooks. We want to take action, to move our country down the path to clean energy, but we're not sure how. Coming Clean provides the road map, showing how we, as motivated citizens, can promote real solutions and collectively pressure government and corporations to change their energy priorities. Author Michael Brune tracks the myriad ways our thirst for dwindling supplies of oil and coal corrupts national policy and international finance, harms poor communities worldwide, and wreaks havoc on the climate. He describes the most promising developments in renewables, biofuels, and efficient design, and outlines an inspiring vision of the clean energy future within our reach."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Michael Brune is executive director of Rainforest Action Network and provides strategic direction for its Freedom from Oil campaign

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction: It's Time to Refuel	p. 11
Getting Our Fix: The True Cost of America's Oil Habit	p. 22
Smokescreen: The Dirty Side of "Clean Coal"	p. 40
Separate Oil and State: Getting Fossilized Power Out of Politics	p. 59
Follow the Money: How Your Bank Is Funding Climate Change, and What You Can Do about It	p. 75
Redesigning Mobility: Moving America in a Post-Oil Economy	p. 95
Jump-Start Detroit: How Automakers Can Save Themselves, and the Planet	p. 111
Growing Gas: Are Biofuels Fueling or Fooling America?	p. 129
Greening the Grid: How Sun and Wind Can Generate Power and Prosperity	p. 146
Less Is More: Fighting Climate Change while Living the Good Life	p. 167
Power Shift: Shaping a Clean-Energy Society	p. 183
Resources	p. 197
Notes	p. 217
Index	p. 259
About the Author	p. 269
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