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A Planet on the Edge: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Energy

PWR 2KM - Winter 2013 - Instructor: Moekle, K.
Last Updated: 14-Dec-2012

A guide to resources for 2KM: A Planet on the Edge: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Energy. Topics include the rhetoric and ethics of "sustainable energy," investigating both the alarmism and optimism which fuel this debate about meeting the world's increasing demand for power while avoiding destruction of the environment.

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Kathleen Gust
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Engineering Library (Terman)
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General and interdisciplinary

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Background/Reference sources about Sustainable Energy

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

Encyclopedia of global warming and climate change / S. George Philander, editor.
Los Angeles : SAGE, c2008.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » QC981.8 .G56 E47 2008 V.1
Encyclopedia of energy / editor-in-chief, Cutler J. Cleveland ; associate editors, Robert U. Ayres ... [et al.].
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004.
SAL3 » Stacks » TJ163.28 .E53 2004 V.1
2004 Survey of energy resources [electronic resource] / [edited by A. W. Clarke and J.A. Trinnaman].
20th ed. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2004.
Green energy [electronic resource] : technology, economics, and policy / U. Aswathanarayana, T. Harikrishnan, K.M. Thayyib Sahini.
Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press/Balkema, 2010.
Advanced renewable energy sources / G.N. Tiwari and R.K. Mishra.
Cambridge, UK : RSC Pub., c2012.
Swain » Stacks » TJ808 .T588 2012
Before the lights go out : conquering the energy crisis before it conquers us / Maggie Koerth-Baker.
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2012.
Green » Stacks » TJ807.9 .U6 K64 2012
Deploying renewables 2011 : best and future policy practice / International Energy Agency.
Paris : OECD/IEA, c2011.
Green » Stacks » TJ808 .D48 2011
The energy imperative : 100 per cent renewable now / Hermann Scheer.
London ; New York : Earthscan, 2012.
Engineering » Stacks » TJ808 .S328713 2012

Suggested Databases for Sustainable Energy

Try these suggested databases and these additional:

Engineering index.
New York [etc.]
SAL3 » Stacks » Z5851 .E62 1906
Environment index [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub., [2002-
Environmental sciences & pollution management [electronic resource].
[S.l.] : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, [199-]-
GreenFILE [electronic resource].
[Ipswich, Mass.] : EBSCO Pub.

Internet Resources for Sustainable Energy

Energy Citations Database from OSTI
EPA - Clean Energy Program
BLM - Renewable Energy Resources
GEO Data Portal
Science.gov multisearch tool
Science Accelerator