Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution--and how it can renew America
Title:
Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution--and how it can renew America
Author:
Friedman, Thomas L.
Personal Author:
Edition:
Release 2.0, updated and expanded ; first Picador edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Picador, [2009]
©2009
Physical Description:
viii, 516 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary:
Examines America's loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11, and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are linked.
Language:
English
Contents:
Preface to the release 2.0 edition -- PART I: WHEN THE MARKET AND MOTHER NATURE HIT THE WALL: Why Citibank, Iceland's banks, and the Ice Banks of Antarctica all melted down at the same time -- Dumb as we wanna be -- The re-generation -- PART II: WHERE WE GO: Today's date 1 E.C.E. Today's weather: hot, flat, and crowded -- Our carbon copies (or, Too many Americans) -- Fill 'er up with dictators -- Global weirding -- The age of Noah -- Energy poverty -- Green is the new red, white, and blue -- PART III: HOW WE MOVE FORWARD: 205 easy ways to save the Earth -- The energy Internet: when IT meets ET -- The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones -- If it isn't boring, it isn't green -- A million Noahs, a million arks -- Outgreening al-Qaeda (or Buy one, get four free) -- PART IV: CHINA: Can Red China become Green China? -- PART V: AMERICA: China for a day (but not for two) -- A democratic China, or a banana republic?
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 10.9 39.0 153969.
ISBN:
9780312428921
Format :
Book
