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CHAPTER NAME |
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Adobe |
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A Real Fine Place to Start: Introduction |
5 |
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The Love You Save: Improving Energy Efficiency |
9 |
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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Nothing Lasts Forever and a Day |
9 |
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Saving Grace: Industrial Efficiency |
11 |
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Lightening Up: Reducing Material Intensity |
11 |
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Sticks N’ Stones N’ Straw N’ Steel: Material Intensity in Building Construction |
13 |
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Fields of Barley, Fields of Gold: Material Intensity in Agriculture |
16 |
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Water is More Precious than Gold: Material Intensity in Water Use |
24 |
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Working for the Weekend: Material Intensity in Appliances & Office Equipment |
26 |
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Can’t Hide Your Lying Eyes: Material Intensity in Packaging |
28 |
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Paper in Fire: Material Intensity in Paper Use |
31 |
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Bed of Roses: Material Intensity in Furniture |
39 |
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Dress You Up in My Love: Material Intensity in Fibers |
40 |
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Big Wheels Keep On Turning: Material Intensity in Transportation |
48 |
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Clean Sweep: Reducing Material Intensity by Lowering Pollution |
55 |
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Every Story Has an End: Recycling |
63 |
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'Let's make it, don't waste it': Direct Energy Savings in Industry |
65 |
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Love the Way You Move: Energy Savings in Transportation |
70 |
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A Very, Very Fine House: Saving Energy in Residential Buildings |
79 |
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Doing it in the Suites: Saving Energy in Commercial Buildings |
85 |
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All Together Now: Total Savings |
88 |
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Earth, Sun, Sky and Sea: Sources |
92 |
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I’ll Let These Sparks Fly Out: Electricity |
92 |
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Free as Running Water: Hydro-electricity |
93 |
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Where the Hot Springs Blow: Geothermal Electricity |
94 |
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Restless Power of the Wind: Wind Electricity |
95 |
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Heat of the Sun: Solar Thermal Electricity |
97 |
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Mixed Sources and Storage |
97 |
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Paying the Price: Costs of Transmitting, storing and Producing Electricity |
99 |
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The Hydrogen Path |
100 |
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Photovoltaics |
102 |
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Shades of Grey: Electricity and Environmental Questions |
103 |
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Hotter than the Sun: The Mandatory Section on Nuclear Electricity |
107 |
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One and One Still is One: Cogeneration |
108 |
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Warmth of the Sun: Active Solar Thermal for Low and Mid Temperature Heat |
109 |
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The Sun is Burning: High Temperature Active Solar |
111 |
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Fields of Fire: Land Based Biomass |
112 |
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Putting it together: Grand Total |
117 |
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Higher: The Mandatory Peak Oil Chapter |
118 |
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Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow: Research & Development |
119 |
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Mañana is now: R&D and Per Capita Economic Growth |
119 |
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Hello Tomorrow: R&D II - Adapting to the Greenhouse |
129 |
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If Tomorrow Never Comes: R&D III – Ignoring the Greenhouse |
131 |
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Objections |
134 |
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Answer at the End of the Line: Technical Conclusion |
135 |
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Politics and Economics of the Transition |
136 |
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Appendixes |
140 |
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Hot Lies and Cold Facts: Global Warming Deniers vs |
140 |
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How CyberTran May Replace Short Domestic Flights |
148 |
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The Hawthorne Effect |
148 |
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Accounting for Resource Flows |
151 |
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Phasing Out Other Greenhouse Forcings |
153 |
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Timing: Can Emissions Reductions be Frontloaded? |
155 |
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What about the Rest of the World? |
159 |
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Miscellaneous Points on Sources, Style and Assumptions |
162 |
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End Notes |
164 |
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Bibliography |
209 |