As we researched Life After Carbon, we relied on a number of terrific books for ideas, examples, and inspiration. Here’s our list, with links to Amazon. Also note that according to our book’s Amazon page, customers who bought our book also bought 12 other books including…
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Excerpt from Life After Carbon, chapter 2, “Urban Climate Innovation Laboratories” Before climate change arrived in the headlines in the late 1980s, the groundwork for climate leadership had been laid. The creators of urban climate innovation labs span three overlapping generations, each of which experienced its own jolt of awakening and…
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Our long-time friend Bob Friedman, an innovator in America’s economic justice struggle and founder of Prosperity Now, has written a new book that delivers an elegant policy solution with passion and analysis. Here’s our review: Bob Friedman’s A Few Thousand Dollars: Sparking Prosperity for Everyone offers an…
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Henk Ovink thinks different. You realize that after just a few minutes of talking with him. Or by hearing some of his job titles: Sherpa for the UN Commission High Level Panel on Water, Netherlands’ first Special Envoy for International Water Affairs. Or by looking at the…
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“I don’t want to belong to a generation of sleepwalkers that has forgotten its own past. I want to belong to a generation that has decided forcefully to defend its democracy.” — Emmanuel Macron, President of France it’s now commonplace to observe that the city is the…
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Historian Bob Johnson’s Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture examines the start of the fossil-fuel revolution in the US in the 1800s and shows how it created more than a new energy economy. A new American culture came into being. “We became a people of…
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