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Author Friedman, Thomas L.

Title Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution-- and how it can renew America / Thomas L. Friedman.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  363.7 FRIEDMAN    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  333.72 FRI    Storage
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 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  333.7907 FRIEDMAN    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  333.7907 FRIEDMAN, THOMAS L.    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  333.72 F    Check Shelf
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Edition 1st ed.
Description 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents pt. 1. Where we are -- Where birds don't fly -- Today's date : 1 E.C.E. Today's weather : hot, flat, and crowded -- pt. 2. How we got here -- 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 -- pt. 3. 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) -- pt. 4. China -- Can red China become green China? -- pt. 5. America -- China for a day (but not for two) -- A democratic China, or a banana republic?
Summary Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 10.9 39.0 153969.
Subject Green movement -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
United States -- Environmental conditions.
Energy policy -- United States.
Climatology -- Government policy -- United States.
Power resources -- United States.
Renewable energy sources -- United States.
Environmental policy -- United States.
Erneuerung.
Ökologische Bewegung.
United States.
Chronological Term Since 1980
Subject Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Green movement. (OCoLC)fst00947621
Social history. (OCoLC)fst01122498
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 9780374166854
0374166854
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