The Clean Energy Age: A Guide to Beating Climate Change - Hardcover

BF Nagy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1538115786 ISBN 13: 9781538115787

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2018

Synopsis

It’s time for a new approach to environmentalism that focuses on practical solutions rather than problems and speaks to ordinary citizens in simple terms. This clear, positive, and non-partisan guidebook offers Top 10 lists that will help individuals and organizations save money while taking aim at the source of most of our carbon emissions. Reviewing proven and unproven technologies and government programs, it explores opportunities for homeowners, governments, corporations, media, and others.

While BF Nagy evaluates clean technology progress to date, he does not dwell on doom and gloom, seek to shame or scold, or propose unlikely overnight lifestyle upheavals. Instead he prioritizes everyday actions and reviews the paybacks and effectiveness of clean building technologies and vehicles, government/utility incentives, and finance structures. Organized for both quick reference and deep dives into the nuts and bolts of saving the plant from environmental ruin, The Clean Energy Age contains specific sections for individuals and organizations using appropriate language and exploring current trends and issues for homeowners, regional and local governments, small businesses, large corporations, investors, politicians, civil servants, urban planners, media people, entertainers, teachers, transportation people, medical professionals, manufacturers, farmers, and others.

In addition to technology and government programs it reviews current clean tech business and economic realities and insights into what we can expect in the future. It explores electric vehicles, net-zero smart homes, the Internet of things, smart grids, solar, wind, and geothermal. Each Top 10 list offers detailed explanations as well as a simple, summary format. Other chapters on buildings, electricity, transportation, investment, business, politics & economics, government, and unproven technologies, provide support for the information found in the Top 10 lists and success stories accumulated during consultations with clean technology, government and business specialists. Organized for easy-access by people in different segments, there is something for everyone looking to combat climate change in these pages.

About this title

About the Author

BF Nagy produces and hosts clean energy webinars for city planners on behalf of Canada's federal government, is an international consultant to corporations and governments, and is a leading expert on green buildings and communities, electrified transportation, renewables, storage, protecting water, and natural refrigerants. He has written more than 200 feature magazine articles for the New York Times, Corporate Knights, Globe & Mail, National Observer, and Open Access Government, and is a regular columnist for several others, including technical publications for policymakers and construction professionals. Nagy is the author of The Clean Energy Age: A Guide to Beating Climate Change (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538115786
• ISBN 13: 9781538115787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256