Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal - Softcover

Brune, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578051495 ISBN 13: 9781578051496

Publisher: Sierra Club Books, 2008

Synopsis

The executive director of the Rainforest Action Network looks at the costs of oil dependency and challenges Americans to become politically active and join in the movement to fight for a clean energy economy.

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Review

"Purging this country of its two-century addiction to fossil fuels is the great task of our time. Here is the resource we have long needed."--Bill McKibben, author of "Deep Economy" "Strung out by high gas prices? Melting ice caps give you the sweats? Lost in fantasies about clean coal, tar sands, and undiscovered oil fields in Alaska? Coming Clean is a road map to recovery, a smart, heartfelt guide to building a better world."-- Jeff Goodell, author of "Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future" "Straight from the front lines of the battle for a clean, cheap energy economy, Mike Brune tells the fascinating inside story. With fuel prices soaring, his practical vision for how we can 'come clean' is tremendously important. I especially appreciate his guidance on how we can make this revolution happen before it's too late."--Wes Boyd, cofounder of MoveOn.Org "A thoroughly engaging, reader-friendly analysis of our energy dilemma. Brune's empowering book tells us how to take back our future from the energy bullies leading us down a path to climate chaos."-- Ross Gelbspan, author of the "Heat Is On" and "Boiling Point" "Winning the battle against climate change will take a lot more than buying better light bulbs and inflating our cars' tires. Coming Clean shows how to get the systemic change we really need."-- Bonnie Raitt, musician/activist "This is a valuable odyssey through the coming world of clean, sustainable, resilient energy. As Brune puts it, 'Join us: it's fun over here.'"-- R. James Woolsey, energy-independence expert, former CIA director "If politics as usual could do it, the climate crisis would be fixed by now. Of course voting is essential. But so is the Rainforest Action Network's brand of activism: target corporate polluters directly and break their hold over government policy. Mike Brune shows how to do it in a book Exxon-Mobil no doubt wishes had never been published."

About the Author

Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, has seen firsthand the devastation caused by the BP oil disaster in the Gulf. Nationally recognized as one of today’s most inspiring and effective environmental leaders, he served as executive director of Rainforest Action Network for seven years, and previously worked with Greenpeace and the Coastal Rainforest Coalition (since renamed ForestEthics). Brune wrote the original edition ofComing Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal in 2008, and he blogs regularly for The Huffington Post, SolveClimate, and Daily Kos. He lives with his wife and their two young children in Alameda, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sierra Club Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1578051495
• ISBN 13: 9781578051496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 269