TY - BOOK AU - Friedman,Thomas L. TI - Hot, flat, and crowded: why we need a green revolution, and how it can renew America SN - 9780374166854 AV - GE 197 .F75 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Green movement KW - United States KW - Green technology KW - Climatic changes KW - Power resources KW - Environmental aspects KW - Environmental policy KW - Energy policy KW - sears KW - Climate KW - Government policy KW - Energy resources KW - Renewable energy resources KW - Environmental conditions KW - Social conditions KW - 1980-2020 N1 - Includes index; pt. 1; Where we are --; 1; Where birds don't fly --; 2; Today's date : 1 E.C.E. Today's weather : hot, flat, and crowded --; pt. 2; How we got here --; 3; Our carbon copies (or, Too many Americans) --; 4; Fill 'er up with dictators --; 5; Global weirding --; 6. The; age of Noah --; 7; Energy poverty --; 8; Green is the new red, white, and blue --; pt. 3; How we move forward --; 9; 205 easy ways to save the Earth --; 10. The; energy Internet : when IT meets ET --; 11. The; Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones --; 12; If it isn't boring, it isn't green --; 13. A; million Noahs, a million arks --; 14; Outgreening al-Qaeda (or, Buy one, get four free) --; pt. 4; China --; 15; Can Red China become Green China? --; pt. 5; America --; 16; China for a day (but not for two) --; ch. 17. A; Democratic China, or a banana republic? --; Acknowledgments --; Index N2 - Examines America's loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11, and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are linked UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0904/2008930589-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0904/2008930589-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0904/2008930589-s.html ER -