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

Language: English

Published by Sierra Club Books, 2008

1578051495 / 9781578051496

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Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "Jim--Thanks for your support and tireless advocacy of a smart energy policy. Hope to see you again soon. --Mike." Jim is James Woolsey, Jr., former director of the CIA in the early years of the Clinton Administration and longtime political advisor, who has become an important clean-energy advocate, arguing the importance of energy independence in the name of both security and sustainability. He has been a proponent of both hybrid-electric cars and ethanol production. Michael Brune is the executive director of the Sierra Club, becoming its youngest leader at the age of 38, in the footsteps of John Muir. This book is neat in that the publisher is the Sierra Club, but he's writing as the executive director of the Rainforest Action Network, foreshadowing his transitioning. A great association, and uncommon signed. The book is near fine because the upper, outer corner has been bumped from behind, leaving a mild crimp there in the "Notes" pages at the book's rear. Otherwise fine. We invite you to explore our dedicated, growing collection of signed and inscribed climate change books, including many association copies. Please inquire for photos.

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Title
Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal
Author
Brune, Michael [James Woolsey, Jr.]
Publisher
Sierra Club Books
Publication year
2008
Condition
Near Fine
Signed
Signed by Author(s)
Binding
Soft cover
Language
English
ISBN 10
1578051495
ISBN 13
9781578051496
Edition
1st Edition.

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Visit us at www.ruralhours.com. Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature and science writing, the environment, ecopoetics, contemporary essay, and literary journalism, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. Our name is an homage to Susan Fenimore Cooper's book Rural Hours (1850), considered the first work of environmental nonfiction by an American woman. The daughter of James Fenimore Cooper, Susan Cooper was also an accomplished watercolorist, and her birds from Rural Hours populate these pages. Her rendering of a "chimney swallow" (now known as a swift) serves as our logo and mascot: sleek and elevated, part sky and part city street. Rural Hours is mainly a project of writer and teacher Nick Neely. Along with a pair of MFA degrees in nonfiction and poetry, Nick has a Master's in Literature and Environment from the University of Nevada, Reno. He has much expertise and years of experience in the field of eco-writing. His first book, Coast Range, was a finalist for John Burroughs Medal for nature writing and his second book, Alta California--about a 12-week trek he made along the California coast--was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Check out the "Rambles" page for eventual short essays from him on environmental lit, new books, and more. Rural Hours is a young venture, but we aspire to be among the leaders in the field of rare and interesting eco-writing. We believe, emphatically, that environmental literature and its preservation is in the service of the preservation of the world. In addition to helping serious collectors and institutions build their libraries and archives, our goal is to curate a substantial "house collection" of environmental writing for public display on this site and beyond, one that shows the evolution of the genre(s). That will be a perennial work in progress. We hope to draw a deep, explorable map of environmental writing that traces the lineage and connections between authors and artists determined to render and protect the earth, locally and globally. At the same time, we would like to challenge the usual contours of the "environmental literature" canon and promote a more diverse and inclusive array of voices; in that way, our longterm goal is to excavate the past and curate toward the future. Rural Hours also hopes to eventually have an open shop and gallery space, but for now we are only online. You've come to the right the place. Enjoy poking around, and then head out for a walk.

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