Links & Books
Links
California Environmental Protection Agency
www.arb.ca.gov/cc/cc.htm
Learn details about California's Assembly Bill 32, The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
The Energy Almanac
www.energyalmanac.ca.gov
The California Energy Commission offers this overview of the state's energy industry, with statistics and links to other relevant sites.
The Carbon Mitigation Initiative
www.princeton.edu/~cmi
Researchers at Princeton University, BP, and the Ford Motor Company have teamed up in an effort to address the issue of global climate change. Learn more here.
United States Environmental Protection Agency
www.epa.gov
Find ways to protect the environment at home, work, and in your community.
Competitive Enterprise Institute
cei.org/issues
Hear what some groups who believe in free-enterprise and limited-goverment think about national energy initiatives and other issues.
Power Struggle
www.pbs.org/now/shows/503/index.html
Will the green energy dream come to fruition? Check out this program—from PBS's NOW series—that explores obstacles to the promise of renewables. The entire show is available to watch online.
Books
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America
by Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
by Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks. Island Press, 2008.
What We Know About Climate Change
by Kerry Emanuel. MIT Press, 2007.
Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future
by Vijay Vaitheeswaran and Iain Carson. Twelve, 2007.
"Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost?"
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Abatement Mapping Initiative Executive Report. McKinsey & Company, 2007.
www.mckinsey.com/clientservice/ccsi/greenhousegas.asp
Power to the People: How the Coming Energy Revolution Will Transform an Industry, Change Our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet
by Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by Marc Reisner. Penguin Books, 1986.
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