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Bestsellers
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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
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The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....
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Jared Diamond Downs You in Explanation
- By Rob on 07-20-18
By: Jared Diamond
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What If We Get It Right?
- Visions of Climate Futures
- By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ayisha Siddiqa, Jacqueline Woodson, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures....
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Let’s Do This: Eyes Wide Open, Heart fully Charged
- By Carolyn and Sonia Marcos on 09-25-24
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Apocalypse Never
- Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
- By: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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Climate change is real, but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem....
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Environmentalist with integrity!
- By Wayne on 07-01-20
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- By: David Wallace-Wells
- Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
- Length: 9 hrs
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An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it....
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Don’t read if you have depressive tendencies.
- By Ricky on 03-17-19
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Erosion
- Essays of Undoing
- By: Terry Tempest Williams
- Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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In these new essays, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land, of the self, of belief, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered, worn, and whittled away through wind, water, and time is as powerful as what remains....
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Conservative Crunchies Will Gain Insight
- By DC on 09-17-20
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
- By: Dan Egan
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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In an age when dire problems like the Flint water crisis or the California drought bring ever more attention to the indispensability of safe, clean, easily available water, The Death and the Life of the Great Lakes is a powerful paean to what is arguably our most precious resource....
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So Crucial, Get it! Then Enjoy Your Water
- By Meg on 08-05-19
By: Dan Egan
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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
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The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....
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Jared Diamond Downs You in Explanation
- By Rob on 07-20-18
By: Jared Diamond
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What If We Get It Right?
- Visions of Climate Futures
- By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
- Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ayisha Siddiqa, Jacqueline Woodson, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures....
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Let’s Do This: Eyes Wide Open, Heart fully Charged
- By Carolyn and Sonia Marcos on 09-25-24
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Apocalypse Never
- Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
- By: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Climate change is real, but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem....
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Environmentalist with integrity!
- By Wayne on 07-01-20
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- By: David Wallace-Wells
- Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
- Length: 9 hrs
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An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it....
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Don’t read if you have depressive tendencies.
- By Ricky on 03-17-19
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Erosion
- Essays of Undoing
- By: Terry Tempest Williams
- Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In these new essays, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land, of the self, of belief, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered, worn, and whittled away through wind, water, and time is as powerful as what remains....
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Conservative Crunchies Will Gain Insight
- By DC on 09-17-20
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
- By: Dan Egan
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In an age when dire problems like the Flint water crisis or the California drought bring ever more attention to the indispensability of safe, clean, easily available water, The Death and the Life of the Great Lakes is a powerful paean to what is arguably our most precious resource....
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So Crucial, Get it! Then Enjoy Your Water
- By Meg on 08-05-19
By: Dan Egan
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California Against the Sea
- Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
- By: Rosanna Xia
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Along California's coastline, the Pacific Ocean is rising and pressing in, imperiling both wildlife and the maritime towns and cities that millions of people call home. As climate chaos threatens the places we love so fiercely, will we finally grasp our collective capacity for change?
By: Rosanna Xia
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False Alarm
- How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
- By: Bjorn Lomborg
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong. It points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.
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Stop climate change panic!
- By Wayne on 07-16-20
By: Bjorn Lomborg
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This Changes Everything
- Capitalism vs. the Climate
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
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In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care....
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Didactic and preachy... and I agree with her
- By plau on 09-25-16
By: Naomi Klein
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How Infrastructure Works
- Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
- By: Deb Chachra
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes listeners on a fascinating tour of essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs....
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Mistitled
- By Eric on 01-09-24
By: Deb Chachra
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The Great Derangement
- Climate Change and the Unthinkable
- By: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrated by: Shridhar Solanki
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability - at the level of literature, history, and politics - to grasp the scale and violence of climate change....
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Deranged
- By Michael on 03-07-20
By: Amitav Ghosh
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Our Final Warning
- Six Degrees of Climate Emergency
- By: Mark Lynas
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it’s only looking worse....
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One of the best
- By Stephen on 08-15-20
By: Mark Lynas
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
- By: Andreas Malm
- Narrated by: Brian Arens
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry....
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Neat summation
- By Anonymous User on 05-16-23
By: Andreas Malm
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Cheaper, Faster, Better
- How We’ll Win the Climate War
- By: Tom Steyer
- Narrated by: Tom Steyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Renowned investor and climate champion Tom Steyer gives us a unique and unvarnished perspective on how we can all fight climate change—joyfully, knowledgeably, and even profitably—at a time of unparalleled consequence and opportunity.
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Hope at last!
- By Dr. Stuart A. Blair on 06-02-24
By: Tom Steyer
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The Age of Sustainable Development
- By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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Jeffrey Sachs presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty....
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Audible skips too much
- By RI in Canada on 10-09-16
By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Regeneration
- Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
- By: Paul Hawken
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Bahni Turpin, Lauren Baldwin, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
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Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation....
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More damage than good for the climate crisis
- By Matthew on 06-06-22
By: Paul Hawken
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Exposure
- Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont
- By: Robert Bilott
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Mark Ruffalo - Introduction
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
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An eye-opening, riveting true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous, unregulated chemical PFOA, uncovering a history of environmental contamination that affects virtually every person on the planet....
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Tenacious
- By Gary S. on 01-02-20
By: Robert Bilott
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The Nature of Nature
- Why We Need the Wild
- By: Enric Sala
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense....
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mediocre
- By Anthony Dimaggio on 01-16-24
By: Enric Sala
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Saving Us
- A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
- By: Katharine Hayhoe
- Narrated by: Katharine Hayhoe
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future....
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Saving ME!
- By Wendy on 10-02-21
By: Katharine Hayhoe
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What the Eyes Don't See
- A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
- By: Mona Hanna-Attisha
- Narrated by: Mona Hanna-Attisha
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water - and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash....
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Eye Opening
- By Shatan ~Book Attic Confessions on 08-07-18
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The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?
- By: David Bentley Hart
- Narrated by: Edoardo Camponeschi
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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As reports from the 2004 tsunami spread, commentators quickly seized upon it as proof of God’s power or nonexistence. In The Doors of the Sea, David Bentley Hart speaks to those skeptical of Christian faith and to those who use their Christian faith to rationalize suffering....
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Inspiring and Rigorous
- By Jared Weinberger on 06-28-24
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The Future Is Degrowth
- A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
- By: Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, Aaron Vansintjan
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work....
By: Matthias Schmelzer, and others
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Drawdown
- The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
- By: Paul Hawken - editor
- Narrated by: Aven Shore
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world.
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Great overview of all the pieces needed!
- By MySFKitchen on 09-09-24
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BOOM
- Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever
- By: Tony Horwitz
- Narrated by: Matt Morel
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
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Prize-winning reporter Tony Horwitz takes a spirited road trip through the wild new frontier of energy in North America....
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informative, balanced and a good listen
- By ash on 06-16-24
By: Tony Horwitz
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Manual for Survival
- A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
- By: Kate Brown
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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After 1991, international organizations from the Red Cross to Greenpeace sought to help the victims, yet found themselves stymied by post-Soviet political circumstances they did not understand. International diplomats and scientists allied to the nuclear industry evaded or denied facts....
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Must read this timely book
- By Amazon Customer on 03-26-22
By: Kate Brown
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The Great Reset
- Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown
- By: Marc Morano
- Narrated by: Axel Bosley
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better. This is the vision of the Great Reset, according to globalist leaders....
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please listen to this book
- By OBoyle03 on 09-09-22
By: Marc Morano
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How to Prepare for Climate Change
- By: David Pogue
- Narrated by: David Pogue
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
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A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times best-selling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue....
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Best climate change handbook
- By Peter R. Valeri on 02-22-21
By: David Pogue
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Storms of My Grandchildren
- The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe
- By: James Hansen
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
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In Storms of My Grandchildren, James Hansen - the nation's leading scientist on climate issues - speaks out for the first time with the full truth about global warming....
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This is a must read
- By Brad on 01-17-10
By: James Hansen
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The Language of Climate Politics
- Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
- By: Genevieve Guenther
- Narrated by: Genevieve Guenther
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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In an illuminating analysis, Dr. Genevieve Guenther shows that the climate debate is not, in fact, neatly polarized, with Republicans obstructing climate action and Democrats advancing climate solutions.
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Taming the Sun
- Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
- By: Varun Sivaram
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Solar energy has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's more, its potential is nearly limitless. But in Taming the Sun, energy expert Varun Sivaram warns that the world is not yet equipped to harness erratic sunshine to meet most of its energy needs....
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Comprehensive Summary of Today’s Solar Challenges & Opportunties
- By KC Jean-Pierre on 09-02-18
By: Varun Sivaram