Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

Freinkel treks through history, science and the global economy to assess the real impact of plastic in our lives through eight familiar plastic objects. Each one illuminates a different facet of our synthetic world to give us a new way of thinking about a substance that has become the defining medium—and metaphor—of our age. 

Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America

Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America

Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the expansion of the world’s middle class through globalization have produced a dangerously unstable planet. In this edition, he also shows how the very habits that led us to ravage the natural world led to the meltdown of the financial markets and the Great Recession. 

Short Circuiting Policy Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States

Short Circuiting Policy Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States

Examining clean energy laws in Texas, Kansas, Arizona, and Ohio over a thirty-year time frame, Stokes argues that organized combat between advocate and opponent interest groups is central to explaining why states are not on track to address the climate crisis. This book is recommended by Third Act in their 2023 Public Utilities Commission Teach-In Webinar.