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BL
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| Record Number
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585838
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b415057
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| Main Entry
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Zehner, Ozzie
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| Title & Author
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Green illusions : : the dirty secrets of clean energy and the future of environmentalism /\ Ozzie Zehner
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| Publication Statement
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, c2012
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| Series Statement
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Our sustainable future
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| Page. NO
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xx, 437 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9780803237759
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: 0803237758
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-414) and index
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| Contents
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I: Seductive futures -- Solar cells and other fairy tales -- Wind power's flurry of limitations -- Biofuels and the politics of big corn -- The nuclear-military-industrial risk complex -- The hydrogen zombie -- Conjuring clean coal -- Hydropower, hybrids, and other hydras -- II: From here to there -- The alternative-energy fetish -- The first step -- III: The future of environmentalism -- Women's rights -- Improving consumption -- The architecture of community -- Efficiency culture -- Asking questions -- Epilogue: A grander narrative?
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| Abstract
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We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what's wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem
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| Subject
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Renewable energy sources-- United States
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Environmentalism-- United States
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| LC Classification
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TJ807.9.U6Z44 2012
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