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Author Brune, Michael, 1971-

Title Coming clean : breaking America's addiction to oil and coal / Michael Brune.

Publication Info. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2008]
©2008

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 Harper Library - Circulating Collection  TD887.F69 B78 2008    Available
Description 269 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-258) and index.
Contents Table of contents -- Introduction: It's time to refuel -- Getting our fix: The true cost of America's oil habit -- Smokescreen: The dirty side of "clean coal" -- Separate oil and state: Getting fossilized power out of politics -- Follow the money: How your bank is funding climate change, and what you can do about it -- Redesigning mobility: Moving America in a post-oil economy -- Jump-start Detroit: How automakers can save themselves, and the planet -- Growing gas: Are biofuels fueling or fooling America -- Greening the grid: How sun and wind can generate power and prosperity -- Less is more: Fighting climate change while living the good life -- Power shift: Shaping a clean-energy society.
Subject Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
Biomass energy -- United States.
Renewable energy sources -- United States.
Green movement -- United States.
Local Subject Purchased with funds from LSTA Strengthening Library Collections Grant 2008-2009.
ISBN 9781578051496
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