Contents

• I. Fossil fools? Climate change, traditional energy sources, and their drawbacks. Carbon’s new math / Bill McKibben
• The politics of global warming / Thomas Sieger Derr
• Can the United States shed its oil addiction? / Josef Braml
• The geopolitics of natural gas / Michael T. Klare
• Old king coal comes back / Jeremy Main
• It’s scary, it’s expensive, it could save the earth / Charles Petit
• II. Good bye to gasoline? Ethanol and biodiesel. Is ethanol the answer? / Marianne Lavelle and Bret Schulte
• The price of biofuels / David Rotman
• Fuel for thought / Frances Cerra Whittelsey
• Biodiesel: homegrown oil / Greg Pahl
• III. The sun and the wind: renewable twins? Catching the wind / Jim Motavalli
• New and improved wind power / Greg Pahl
• Solar is the solution / Steve Heckeroth
• Reaching for rays / Aimee Cunningham
• IV. The hydrogen revolution: is it feasible? The hope for hydrogen / Joan Ogden and Daniel Sperling
• Fueling U.S. transportation / Michael K. Heiman and Barry D. Solomon
• Beyond batteries / Carol Potera
• V. Hydroelectric and wave power: viable alternatives? Hydroelectric power / William Arthur Atkins
• Ending a dammed nuisance / The Economist
• Homestead hydropower / Steve Maxwell
• Blue power / David C. Holzman
• Wave master / Stuart Nathan
• VI. Geothermal energy. Geothermal energy, power from the underground / James Yearling
• Deep heat / Caroline Williams
• Geothermal technology / Scott Calahan