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Author Inslee, Jay.

Title Apollo's fire : igniting America's clean-energy economy / Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks; foreword by Bill Clinton.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : Island Press, [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  333.79 INSLEE    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  333.79 INSLEE    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-367) and index.
Contents Foreword / President Bill Clinton -- The first Apollo Project -- ch. 1. A new Apollo Project for energy -- Global warming comes to the White House, or doesn't -- Ten energy enlightenments -- ch. 2. Reinventing the car -- Becoming Mahatma -- ch. 3. Waking up to the new solar dawn -- When energy markets go wrong : surviving Enron -- ch. 4. Energy efficiency : the distributed power of democracy -- Green-collar jobs : from the South Bronx to Oakland -- ch. 5. Reenergizing our communities, one project at a time -- "We don't need oil" -- ch. 6. Homegrown energy -- Wind energy : false starts on the road to success -- ch. 7. Sailing in a sea of energy -- A mind opened about mined coal -- ch. 8. Can coal or nuclear be part of the solution? -- The Apollo Alliance : new coalitions for change -- ch. 9. What's it going to take? -- A tale of two presidents -- ch. 10. An American energy policy -- Placing our bets on a new Apollo Project -- Lessons of the mimosa tree -- Stories from the field -- Epilogue : Launching Apollo -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Subject Energy policy -- United States.
Renewable energy sources -- United States.
Global warming.
Added Author Hendricks, Bracken.
ISBN 9781597261753 hardcover alkaline paper
1597261750 hardcover alkaline paper
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