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Energy policy is at a crossroads. Attempts to meet targets for
carbon emissions, energy security and affordable energy for
vulnerable households are all on a trajectory to failure.
Aggressive ambitions to roll out huge off-shore wind, nuclear and
clean coal plants are proposed, but without any clear plans on how
funds will be mobilized, or transmission and distribution
infrastructure developed. In this book Prashant Vaze and Stephen
Tindale ask politicians and regulators to consider a different
path. Using abundant examples of small scale local solutions
Repowering Communities examines how cities, communities and local
authorities from across Europe and North America have driven
reductions in energy use and rolled out small scale, community
level solutions. Among the issues examined are the drivers behind
behavioural change, the methods used to secure necessary investment
and what government and civil society can do to foster such action
on a wide scale. Based on extensive first-hand research and drawing
on the latest global energy data the authors provide essential
information and inspiration for readers who wish to drive the
policies that encourage community-level energy development.
Energy policy is at a crossroads. Attempts to meet targets for
carbon emissions, energy security and affordable energy for
vulnerable households are all on a trajectory to failure.
Aggressive ambitions to roll out huge off-shore wind, nuclear and
clean coal plants are proposed, but without any clear plans on how
funds will be mobilized, or transmission and distribution
infrastructure developed. In this book Prashant Vaze and Stephen
Tindale ask politicians and regulators to consider a different
path. Using abundant examples of small scale local solutions
Repowering Communities examines how cities, communities and local
authorities from across Europe and North America have driven
reductions in energy use and rolled out small scale, community
level solutions. Among the issues examined are the drivers behind
behavioural change, the methods used to secure necessary investment
and what government and civil society can do to foster such action
on a wide scale. Based on extensive first-hand research and drawing
on the latest global energy data the authors provide essential
information and inspiration for readers who wish to drive the
policies that encourage community-level energy development.
Reducing your carbon emissions in an economic down-turn can be
challenging, but saving the planet doesn't have to cost you more.
Tough economic times need not relegate concerns for the planet to
the back burner. The author is an environmental economist trying to
live a low-carbon life in London. He worked for 15 years in the
UK's Office of Climate Change, the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit
and the Department of the Environment. So far so good. But he has
kids. A family to visit in India. A hectic job. In distilling and
building on his own experience of trying to live a low carbon life,
he helps us navigate the choices that confront us all - families,
singletons, pensioners - when making decisions about what to eat,
what to buy, how to travel and how to keep warm in the era of
climate change and economic turmoil. He works out the sums and lets
us know which choices will make the biggest difference, and which
are false savings. His book is an irreverent but seriously rigorous
reference guide to low-cost, low-carbon living for everyone - in
any location - in tough times. It's brimming with up-to-date
information on current and future technologies, tips and ideas for
every budget on how to spend the least for the biggest carbon
reduction gain and insight from the experiences of people trying to
live low-carbon lives.
Reducing your carbon emissions in an economic down-turn can be
challenging, but saving the planet doesn't have to cost you more.
Tough economic times need not relegate concerns for the planet to
the back burner. The author is an environmental economist trying to
live a low-carbon life in London. He worked for 15 years in the
UK's Office of Climate Change, the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit
and the Department of the Environment. So far so good. But he has
kids. A family to visit in India. A hectic job. In distilling and
building on his own experience of trying to live a low carbon life,
he helps us navigate the choices that confront us all - families,
singletons, pensioners - when making decisions about what to eat,
what to buy, how to travel and how to keep warm in the era of
climate change and economic turmoil. He works out the sums and lets
us know which choices will make the biggest difference, and which
are false savings. His book is an irreverent but seriously rigorous
reference guide to low-cost, low-carbon living for everyone - in
any location - in tough times. It's brimming with up-to-date
information on current and future technologies, tips and ideas for
every budget on how to spend the least for the biggest carbon
reduction gain and insight from the experiences of people trying to
live low-carbon lives.
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