green technology

Discusses different methods of cleaning up pollution and hazardous waste, including oxidation, excavation, and the use of microbes and plants.

Explains how the manufacturing of everyday products can damage the Earth, offering solutions for more Earth-friendly designs and how to promote them.

Argues that the United States needs to adopt an environmentally friendly national strategy to be healthier, wealthier, and more secure, innovative, and productive.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce environmentally-friendly modes of transportation, explaining global warming and fossil fuels, and describing hybrid, electric, solar, and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, as well as green and electric bicycles, scooters, mopeds, and Segway PTs.

Examines careers in the field of ecotourism, describing the roles and responsibilities of travel agents, people who write guidebooks and marketing materials, managers of ecolodges, and others.

Discusses green buildings, materials, and transportation, the effects of pollution and climate change, alternative energy, and other energy sources, and includes information on famous scientists and a glossary.

An illustrated introduction to green technology, explaining how it is made and used, discussing how green technology allows for reduced waste and pollution, and describing the impact of biofuels and nanotechnology on everyday life.

Discusses the history of energy and the search for efficiency and focuses on how to live sustainably while caring for the environment and the future of our planet. Examines the fact that, while we already have the technology and knowledge to live sustainably, little progress has been made to achieve that goal.

This book looks at the history of alternative energy including solar and wind power. In it the author explores both the forgotten history and the visionary future of America's green technology inventors. Few today realize that electric cabs dominated Manhattan's streets in the 1890s; that solar water heating boomed in California before the first World War, that Boise, Idaho, had a geothermal heating system in 1910; or that the first megawatt turbine in the world was built in 1941 by the son of publishing magnate G.P. Putnam, a feat that would not be duplicated for another forty years. Likewise, while many remember the oil embargo of the 1970s, few are aware that it led to a corresponding explosion in green technology research that was only derailed when energy prices later dropped.