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Reader's guide
Entries A-Z
Subject index
This initial volume in the SAGE Series on Green Society provides an overview of the social and environmental dimensions of our energy system, and the key organizations, policy tools, and technologies that can help shape a green-energy economy. Each entry draws on scholarship from across numerous social sciences, natural and physical sciences, and engineering. The urgency of climate change underscores the importance of getting the right technologies, policies and incentives, and social checks-and-balances in place. This reference resource will prepare those with a sparking interest in the topic to participate in what will hopefully become an equitable and intergenerational conversation about the impacts of our energy consumption and how to make it cleaner and greener. Via its 150 signed entries, Green Energy: An A-to-Z Guide provides students, professors, and researchers an invaluable reference, presented in both print and electronic formats. Its clear and accessible writing style, together with vivid photos, numerous cross-references, extensive resource guide, and other pedagogical tools make it a valuable tool for the classroom as well as for research purposes.
- Energy Agreements and Organizations
- Best Management Practices
- CAFE Standards
- Carbon Tax
- Carbon Trading and Offsetting
- Department of Energy, U.S.
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Feed-In Tariff
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Internal Energy Market
- International Renewable Energy Agency
- Kyoto Protocol
- LEED Standards
- Oil Majors
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
- Public Utilities
- Renewable Energy Portfolio
- World Commission on Environment and Development
- Yucca Mountain
- Energy Challenges
- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- Automobiles
- Caspian Sea
- Chernobyl
- Chlorofluorocarbons
- Climate Change
- Combustion Engine
- Dioxin
- Exxon Valdez
- Fossil Fuels
- Global Warming
- Greenhouse Gases
- Insulation
- Metric Tons of Carbon Equivalent (MTCE)
- Mountaintop Removal
- Natural Gas
- Nitrogen Oxides
- Nonpoint Source
- Nonrenewable Energy Resources
- Nuclear Power
- Nuclear Proliferation
- Offshore Drilling
- Oil
- Oil Sands
- Oil Shale
- Petroviolence
- Sulfur Oxides (SOx)
- Sustainability
- Three Gorges Dam
- Three Mile Island
- Uranium
- Volatile Organic Compound (VOC)
- Waste Incineration
- Exergy
- Food Miles
- Heating Degree Day
- Hubbert's Peak
- Radiative Forcing
- Risk Assessment
- Total Primary Energy Supply
- Energy Solutions
- Alternative Energy
- Alternative Fuels
- Appliance Standards
- Berlin Mandate
- Bicycles
- Biodiesel
- Biogas Digester
- Biomass Energy
- Carbon Emission Factors
- Carbon Footprint and Neutrality
- Carbon Sequestration
- Climate Neutrality
- Coal, Clean Technology
- Combined Heat and Power
- Compact Fluorescent Bulb
- Daylighting
- Electric Vehicle
- Energy Audit
- Energy Policy
- Environmental Measures
- Environmental Stewardship
- Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
- Ethanol, Corn
- Ethanol, Sugarcane
- Flex Fuel Vehicles
- Gasohol
- Geothermal Energy
- Green Banking
- Green Energy Certification Schemes
- Green Power
- Green Pricing
- Hydroelectric Power
- Hydrogen
- Innovation
- Landfill Methane
- Microhydro Power
- On-Site Renewable Energy Generation
- Plug-In Hybrid
- Public Transportation
- Recycling
- Renewable Energies
- Solar Energy
- Solar Thermal
- Tidal Power
- Wave Power
- Wind Power
- Wood Energy
- Zero-Emission Vehicle
- Batteries
- California
- Columbia River
- Electricity
- Embodied Energy
- Emission Inventory
- Emissions Trading
- Energy Payback
- Energy Storage
- Entropy
- Flaring
- Forecasting
- Fuel Cell
- Fusion
- Gasification
- Grid-Connected System
- Heat Island Effect
- Home Energy Rating Systems
- Life Cycle Analysis
- Metering
- Photovoltaic (PV)
- Pipelines
- Power and Power Plants
- Smart Grid
- Solar Concentrator
- Wind Turbine
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