"Our civilization's ever-increasing hunger for energy-and its fixation on fossil fuels to provide that energy-is in the process of imploding on itself as our population grows and its demographics change. Yet we live in a world of tough realities, where an elegant solution simply does not exist." 2GreenEnergy founder Craig Shields provides a broad survey of the subject, presenting 25 interviews with the widest possible variety of subject matter specialists-each chosen to provide the reader with an accessible and fair-minded treatment of a particular issue. The technology, the economics, and...

More than 80% of the energy we generate and consume on this planet comes from burning hydrocarbons - a practice that is clearly unsustainable -- yet we (especially Americans) are making dreadfully little progress in migrating to solar, wind, geothermal, hydrokinetics and biomass. Whether our concerns are environmental, economic, military, or whether we feel some level of sympathy for the people who suffer and die each year from respiratory ailments directly related to the aromatics caused by burning fossil fuels, we need to acknowledge that the world will, at a certain point, be forced in...

Do you get the feeling that the energy industry and the Congress that it owns are deliberately lying to you? If so, you are 100% correct. This book is a follow-on to Craig's first two book projects: "Renewable Energy-Facts and Fantasies" - published in 2010, a survey of the technology, the economics, and the politics associated with clean energy, and "Is Renewable Really Doable?" - published in 2012, a "deeper dive" into the issues preventing us as a civilization from migrating to a safe and sane energy policy. Here in "Following the Money," Shields presents another set of interviews, these...

Craig Shields, editor of the popular website 2GreenEnergy.com, is the author of three previous books on renewable energy: Renewable Energy - Facts and Fantasies (2010), Is Renewable Really Doable? (2012), and Renewable Energy - Following the Money (2013). Though the books have done well (the first two were #1 best-selling energy books on Amazon), they all share common theme: a set of interviews with subject matter experts, each leaving the reader with essentially the same cautious conclusion: the migration to clean energy, while it is extremely important, faces "tough realities." "Bullish"...