The conundrum : how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our energy and climate problems worse / David Owen.
By: Owen, David.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2012Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.Description: ix, 261 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 9781594485619 (Riverhead trade pbk.); 1594485615 (Riverhead trade pbk.).Subject(s): Green technology -- Anecdotes | Energy consumption -- Climatic factors | Consumer behavior -- Environmental aspects | Sustainable livingDDC classification: 628Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 628 Ow22 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003745148 |
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Includes bibliographical references.
The conundrum -- Setting things on fire -- Fossil fuels as credit card -- Leed-certified landfill -- Problems innovate, too -- The greenest community in the United States -- Learning from Manhattan -- Unconsciously green -- Sierra Club or Manhattan Club? -- Sierra Club or A.A.R.P -- Why oil is worse than coal -- Let them eat kale? -- Traffic congestion is not an environmental problem -- Transit that's bad for the environment -- Fast trains and the prius fallacy -- Increased efficiency is not the answer -- William Stanley Jevons -- The coal question -- How increasing efficiency causes overall energy consumption to rise -- Rebound creep -- The importance of less -- What would a truly green car look like? -- Plentiful, inexpensive natural gas is not an environmental solution -- Cheap, efficient lighting is not an environmental solution -- Using water more efficiently will not solve the world's steadily worsening water problems -- Burning trash is not the answer -- When solar power isn't green -- Green or not green? -- Flying a kite -- Harnessing wind without windmills? -- The discouraging economics of innovation -- Getting from lab to grid -- Retrograde innovation -- The conundrum.
Argues that our best intentions are still at cross-purposes to our true goal: living sustainably while caring for our environment and the future of the planet.
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