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Renewable Energy for Your Home by Bryan and Belli

I saw this book on the featured shelf at the local library and it looked interesting. I only read this book quickly, so here is a nano-review: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Renewable Energy for Your Home is a very basic intro to the different categories of home energy production and conservation for people who [...]

Darwin Day

Since today is Darwin Day, I’d like to take the opportunity to recommend Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders by David N. Livingstone. This short book is a good history of the early scientific debate over natural selection. Unlike the incessant popular portrayal of a war between religion and science, Livingstone shows that the debate was actually over [...]

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–And How it can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman

I finally got around to reading Thomas L. Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Friedman is one of the few columnists that I read on a regular basis and the book is on an interesting subject, so I was expecting to enjoy reading it. I didn’t. While I don’t agree with all his ideas, the main [...]

Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How by S. David Freeman

I read this several months ago, but didn’t finish the review until now. This is a hard review to write because Freeman has so many good quotes. I saved 3400 words of quotes from this book. Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How by S. David Freeman is an excellent book by an [...]

Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg

This is a brief review of Cool It by Bjørn Lomborg. In chapter one, Lomborg lists four points: “Global warming is real and man-made.” Very few people argue this point anymore. “Statements about the strong, ominous, and immediate consequences of global warming are often wildly exaggerated …” This is very dependent on one’s source of [...]