Keeping the Lights on: Towards Sustainable Electricity
Keeping the Lights on: Towards Sustainable Electricity
Walt PattersonEarthscanLondonMay 2007195 pp.ISBN 1844074560£36.95
Drawing on over 35 years of work from one of the leading voices in the field,“Keeping the lights on” explains how we could go about improving energy security and services while reducing costs and vulnerability, globally and rapidly. The book discusses the timely and heated debates surrounding energy and power, and emphasizes that electricity is about infrastructure. The result is a comprehensive introduction to the most important issues, providing the reader with innovative and expert ideas and solutions.
“Keeping the lights on” will be useful to anyone who is interested in how we are going to meet our insatiable need for electricity in the years to come. The book is pertinent and “Of the age” as many governments are ignoring the lessons of the past and neglecting to think about the ramifications of their actions on the energy future.
Report on cars, climate change and obesity
A report by the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) claims that use of cars is causing higher levels of obesity as well as rising carbon dioxide emissions.
The report calculates that just by returning to the average distance walked by people in the UK without cars, the rising tide of obesity can be almost halted, and at the same time, a substantial share of individuals' contribution to national carbon dioxide emissions could be avoided. The report further argues that this could and should be done through renewed efforts to promote walking as transport. View the report on the IEEP web site: www.ieep.eu/whatsnew/newsitem.php?item=123
