Foreword ....................................................... ix
Ralph Cavanagh
Preface ........................................................ xi
Tooraj Jamasb
Contributors ................................................. xiii
Introduction ................................................ xxvii
Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It Too?
Fereidoon P. Sioshansi
Part I
Challenge of Sustainability ..................................... i
Chapter 1 Why Do We Use So Much Energy, and What For? .......... 3
Fereidoon P. Sioshansi
Chapter 2 Which Energy Future? ................................ 31
Frank A. Felder, Clinton J. Andrews and Seth
D. Hulkower
Chapter 3 Energy "Needs", Desires, and Wishes:
Anthropological Insights and Prospective Views ...... 63
Françoise Bartiaux, Nathalie Frogneux and Olivier
Servais
Chapter 4 Equity, Economic Growth, and Lifestyle .............. 89
Niels I. Meyer, Frede Hvelplund and Jørgen
S. Nørgård
Chapter 5 We Can't Have Our Cake and Eat it Too: Why the
Energy and Climate Problems Cannot Be Solved in
Consumer-Capitalist Society ........................ 119
Ted Trainer
Chapter 6 Sustainability: Will There Be the Will and the
Means? ............................................. 137
Carlo Andrea Bollino and Paolo Polinori
Chapter 7 Is It Possible to Have It Both Ways? ............... 165
Alan Moran
Chapter 8 Efficiency First: Designing Markets to Save
Energy, and the Planet ............................. 195
Noah Long, Pierre Bull and Nick Zigelbaum
Part II
Technological Fixes ........................................... 229
Chapter 9 Getting to Zero: Green Building and Net Zero
Energy Homes ....................................... 231
Meredith Cray and Jay Zarnikau
Chapter 10 Beyond the Meter: Enabling Better Home Energy
Management ......................................... 273
Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez, John A. "Skip" Laitner
and Kat A. Donnelly
Chapter 11 How Organizations Can Drive Behavior-Based Energy
Efficiency ......................................... 305
William Prindle and Scott Finlinson
Chapter 12 Reinventing Industrial Energy Use in a Resource-
Constrained World .................................. 337
Marilyn A. Brown, Rodrigo Cortes-Lobos and
Matthew Cox
Chapter 13 Prospects for Renewable Energy ..................... 367
Douglas Arent, Paul Denholm, Eason Drury, Rachel
Gelman, Maureen Hand, Chuck Kutscher, Margaret
Mann, Mark Mehos and Alison Wise
Chapter 14 Heating Systems When Little Heating Is Needed ...... 417
Klaas Bauermann and Christoph Weber
Part III
Case Studies .................................................. 443
Chapter 15 Why China Matters .................................. 445
Bram Buijs
Chapter 16 Swiss 2000-Watt Society: A Sustainable Energy
Vision for the Future .............................. 477
Roland Stulz, Stephan Tanner and René Sigg
Chapter 17 Zeroing in on Zero Net Energy ...................... 497
Nicholas B. Rajkovich, William C. Miller and
Anna M. LaRue
Chapter 18 Toward Carbon Neutrality: The Case of the City
of Austin, TX ...................................... 519
Jennifer Clymer
Chapter 19 Rising to the Challenge of Sustainability: Three
Cases of Climate and Energy Governance ............. 551
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Epilogue: Can We Get There from Here? ........................ 571
Fereidoon P. Sioshansi
Index ......................................................... 573
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