Investing in renewable energy

making money on green chip stocks

An expert in the area of renewable energy shares his profitable investment ideas. In the next ten to 15 years, the price of renewable energy will fall dramatically, allowing the industry to not only compete on a level playing field, but offer energy at a ...

Aerogeneradores

La energía eólica abarca una serie de fuentes energéticas que se regeneran con el sol de forma natural y continua, son respetuosas con el medio ambiente y prácticamente inagotables en el tiempo. La obra está dirigida a ingenieros, instaladores, operadores de plantas, estudiantes y toda ...

The long thaw

how humans are changing the next 100.000 years of Earth's climate

If you think that global warming means slightly hotter weather and a modest rise in sea levels that will persist only so long as fossil fuels hold out (or until we decide to stop burning them), think again. In "The Long Thaw", David Archer, one ...

Fuentes de energía

La energía es necesaria para el desarrollo de la humanidad, en todos los campos de su actividad tecnológica. La escasez de energía va a ser un factor predominante en el futuro inmediato, que nos va a llevar a que la energía sea cara, escasa y ...

Understanding sustainability economics

towards pluralism in economics

This is a highly readable yet challenging book ideal for academics, students and professionals in economics, sustainability and environmental studies and policy. The author provides a critical examination of the failings of mainstream economics and the resultant environmental problems we are facing. Most importantly he ...

The discovery of global warming

In 2001 an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how ...

Sueño y mentira del ecologismo

naturaleza, sociedad, democracia

Debe la humanidad regresar a la naturaleza, a fin de no ser exterminada por ella? Esta es la pregunta que sacude cada vez más insistentemente la conciencia contemporánea. En efecto, extendida la creencia de que padecemos una crisis ecológica global que nos sitúa al borde ...

Environmental policy, technological innovation and patents

Technological innovation can help realise environmental objectives in a less costly manner than would otherwise be the case. Thus, understanding the role that technological innovation can play in achieving environmental objectives is important for policy debates. However, the relationship between environmental policy and technological innovation ...

The power of sustainable thinking

how to create a positive future for the climate, the planet, your organization and your life

Foreword by L. Hunter Lovins. The future will be powered by sustainable thinking in business, organizations, governments and everyday life.Organizational change guru, Bob Doppelt, makes the case that global warming and today's other ecological and socioeconomic problems are not technical in nature, rather ...

The step-by-step guide to sustainability planning

how to create and implement sustainability plans in any business or organization

Sustainability is now the greatest business imperative, yet how do you actually develop and implement a sustainability plan if you aren't an expert?From the authors of the award-winning handbook "The Business Guide to Sustainability", comes this highly practical guide to designing and implementing ...

Mejor con menos

necesidades, explosión consumista y crisis ecológica

El consumo masivo propio del capitalismo arrastra, con su enorme poder de seducción, a cientos de millones de nuevos adeptos en los países emergentes, mientras otros miles de millones quedan marginados del festín consumista en un mundo de desigualdades escandalosas. Esta situación, que propicia el ...

The sustainability mirage

illusion and reality in the coming war on climate change

Sustainable development thinking got environmental issues onto the agenda but it may now be stopping us from taking serious action on climate change and other crucial planetary issues.Sustainable development's Faustian deal between present and future will always collapse under the pressure of 'now ...

Global catastrophes and trends

the next fifty years

Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a "fatal discontinuity," a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a persistent, gradual trend. Global catastrophes include volcanic eruptions, viral pandemics, wars, and large-scale terrorist attacks; trends are demographic, environmental ...

CO2 rising

the World's greatest environmental challenge

The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are altering the cycles of matter and life and interfering with the Earth's natural cooling process. Melting Arctic ice and mountain glaciers are ...

The shadows of consumption

consequences for the global environment

"The Shadows of Consumption" gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but, as Peter Dauvergne makes clear, global ...

The green collar economy

how one solution can fix our two biggest problems

Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The award-winning human rights activist and advisor to policy makers and presidential candidates delivers a 21st-century economic plan to rescue working-class Americans.

Solar Revolution

the economic transformation of the global energy industry

In "Solar Revolution", fund manager and former corporate buyout specialist Travis Bradford argues - on the basis of standard business and economic forecasting models - that over the next two decades solar energy will increasingly become the best and cheapest choice for most electricity and energy applications ...

Political theory and global climate change

Ed. Steve Vanderheiden; Foreword by John Barry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Climate change will shape the political, economic, and cultural landscape as surely as it shapes the natural landscape. It challenges our existing political institutions, ethical theories, and ways of conceptualizing the human relationship to the environment, it defies ...

Environmental politics

stakeholders, interests, and policymaking

The second edition of "Environmental Politics: Stakeholders, Interests, and Policymaking" shows students that environmental politics is fundamentally a clash of competing stakeholders' interests, and environmental policy is the result of their reconciliation. But developments in environmental policymaking over the past several years have been little ...

Statistics for environmental science and management

Revised, expanded, and updated, this second edition of "Statistics for Environmental Science and Management" is that rare animal, a resource that works well as a text for graduate courses and a reference for appropriate statistical approaches to specific environmental problems. It is uncommon to find ...