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An edition of Hot, flat, and crowded: why we need a green revolution and how it can renew America (2008)

Hot, flat, and crowded

why the world needs a green revolution--and how we can renew our global future

by and

  • ★★★ ★ 3.75 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 11 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy, which he calls 'Code-Green', is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating - it is what we need to make us all healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure.

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Environmental conditions, Social conditions, Green movement, Climatic changes, Environmental aspects of Power resources, Green technology, Environmental aspects, Environmental policy, Power resources, Energy policy, Environnement, Miljöfrågor, Usa, Conditions sociales, Ökologische Bewegung, Écologisme, Climate, Erneuerung, Ecology, Miljöpolitik, Environmental protection, Climatic change, Energy resources, Government policy, Government, Gröna rörelsen, Socioeconomic organization, China, Energy policies, Renewable energy resources, Environmental policies, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Environmental policy, united states, Energy policy, united states, United states, environmental conditions, United states, social conditions, 1980-, Large type books, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2008-09-28, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Green movement--united states, Green technology--united states, Power resources--environmental aspects, Environmental policy--united states, Energy policy--united states, Ge197 .f76 2009, 363.705250973, Climate--government policy, Climate--government policy--united states, Energy resources--united states, Renewable energy resources--united states, Ge197 .f75 2008b, 320.5/8, LEADERSHIP, Technologie de protection de l'environnement, Climat, Changements, Ressources énergétiques, Aspect de l'environnement, Politique gouvernementale, Politique énergétique, Climate change, United states, social conditions, Population
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2009, Penguin Books, Limited
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Table of Contents

Pt. 1.
Where we are -- -- 1.
Where birds don't fly -- -- 2.
Today's date : 1 E.C.E. Today's weather : hot, flat, and crowded -- -- pt. 2.
How we got here -- -- 3.
Our carbon copies (or, Too many Americans) -- -- 4.
Fill 'er up with dictators -- -- 5.
Global weirding -- -- 6. The
age of Noah -- -- 7.
Energy poverty -- -- 8.
Green is the new red, white, and blue -- -- pt. 3.
How we move forward -- -- 9.
205 easy ways to save the Earth -- -- 10. The
energy Internet : when IT meets ET -- -- 11. The
Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones -- -- 12.
If it isn't boring, it isn't green -- -- 13. A
million Noahs, a million arks -- -- 14.
Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, Buy one, get four free) -- -- pt. 4.
China -- -- 15.
Can Red China become Green China? -- -- pt. 5.
America -- -- 16.
China for a day (but not for two) -- -- ch. 17. A
Democratic China, or a banana republic? ---- Acknowledgments-- Index.

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Includes index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
363.73874
Library of Congress
GE197 .F75 2008b, QC981.8.G56

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Pagination
438 pages
Number of pages
438

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OL28342983M
Internet Archive
hotflatcrowdedwh0000frie
ISBN 10
184614129X, 184614163X
ISBN 13
9781846141294, 9781846141638
OCLC/WorldCat
228197698

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Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.

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