PA 395 Energy Policy
Readings

Required Readings (draft):


The Party's Over. Oil, War and The Fate of Industrial Society, Heinberg.
New Society, 2003
ISBN 0-86571-482-7
HD 9560.6.H45 2003

Energy for Sustainability
# Hardcover: 816 pages
# Publisher: Island Press; 1 edition (June 22, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1597261033
# ISBN-13: 978-1597261036

VERMONT:
Various, state energy plan
2005 Vermont Energy Plan
2009 Vermont State Energy Plan

Optional Readings (at library)

Power to the People, Vaithaswaran
* Hardcover: 358 pages
* Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux; (October 30, 2003)
* ISBN: 0374236755

The Carbon War, Leggett
# Paperback: 341 pages
# Publisher: Routledge; (April 1, 2001)
# ISBN: 0415931029

Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment (chapter 5&9)
by James Gustave Speth
* Hardcover: 299 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.05 x 8.44 x 5.76
* Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; (March 2004)
* ISBN: 0300102321

A Policy of Discontent, The making of a national energy strategy, Stagliano
# Hardcover: 431 pages
# Publisher: Pennwell Pub; 1st edition (July 15, 2001)
# ISBN: 0878148175

In My Office:
Energy Systems and Sustainability, Boyle, Ramage, Everett
Open University/Oxford Press, 2003

Renewable Energy, Power for a Sustainable Future, Boyle
Open University/Oxford Press, 1996

 

ELECTRONIC RESERVE:

WEEK One

Day One

Cassandras
Exponential growth as a transient phenomenon in human history, MK Hubbert (13 pages)

The End of Cheap Oil. CJ Campbell, Jean Laherrere (6 pages)

Scientific American, 1998

 

World oil production capacity model suggest output peak by 2006-07, A.M. Samsam Bakhtiari. Oil & Gas Journal. April 26, 2004

 

They're Not Making More
By Paul Raeburn review of:

OUT OF GAS: The End of the Age of Oil.
By David Goodstein.
Illustrated. 140 pp. New York:
W. W. Norton & Company. $21.95.

 

Cornucopians
Closed Coffin: Ending the Debate on "The End of Cheap Oil", A commentary, Michael Lynch (2 pages)


"The Ultimate Resource 2", Julian L. Simon

Chapter 3-Can the supply of natural Resources-Especially Energy-Really be Infinite? Yes! (13 pages)

Chapter 11-When will we run out of oil-Never! (19 pages)
* Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr; Revised edition (July 1, 1998)
* ISBN: 0691003815


The Skeptical Environmentalist (Chapter 11)
, Bjorn Lomberg (20 pages)

* Paperback: 496 pages
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (September 2001)
* ISBN: 0521010683


Hard Green, Saving the Environment from the environmentalists
(Chapters 4 and 7), Peter Huber

Basic Books

Ch4-18 pages

Ch7-16 pages

The Energy Spiral, Peter Huber

Forbes magazine, April 1, 2002 (2 pages)


Running Out of Resources, Bjorn Lomborg (7 pages)


USGS Petroleum Assessment 2000 (2 pages)


Winning the oil Endgame, Lovins


Schumpeter-Creative Destruction

 

Day Two
Oil Policy

SAUDIS HAVE U.S. OVER A BARREL: The Shifting Terms of Trade Between Grain and Oil

End of Dollar hegemony
Iranian Threat: The Bomb or the Euro?
Petrodollar Warfare
Oil Bourse Not a Threat to the Dollar?

 



Day Three

Climate Change

Short article on abrubt climate change

Summary of players and thoughts on governance-Rowand

Porter on innovating effects of regulation

Porter-Green and Competitive

 

International Governance
Speth Chapter 5

Speth Chapter 9

Flo Eco-illogical cycle

OMB: Regulation benefits the economy

Day Four

International Energy Policies: Feed-in Tarrifs, Renewable Portfolio Standards, energy taxes, Cap/Trade, etc

Energy For Sustainability chapter 16, 17, p.661-679

 

 

Week Two-US Energy Policy

Energy For Sustainability chapter 17-p.680-end

 

 

Day Two

2001

2001 NEP (Cheney) Common Dreams

 

2005

2005 Energy Policy Act
Efficiency Vermont 2005 Energy Policy Act page

 

2007
Wikipedia-2007 Energy and Security Act


2009
2009 Stimulus Plan-Energy
DOE Stimulus page
Stimulus,gov
DOE recovery page
Green Business page
National Taxpayers Union
NTU on RPS

 

 

Day Three-US National Readings

2009 Energy Plan
Heritage Foundation
Competitive Enterprise Institute

American Enterprise Institute
Natl Center for Public Policy Research-Waxman climate bill
Carbon Positive

Week Three-States & Vermont

Day One
Vermont Yankee

PRO
Entergy website
Entergy Issues document
Rutland Herald Article
Vermont Energy Partnership

CON
VPIRG on Yankee
Nuclear Free Vermont
Citizen's Awareness Network
Sierra Club

Day Two
2004-6
History of electricity in Vermont
2004 Vermont Energy Plan
Free Press VELCO article
VELCO NRP Project testimony
New England Governors' Conference - Climate Change Action Plan
+ Vermont Climate Change Action Plan -Executive Order No. 14-03
REV-2005-6 Legislative session report
Chamber of Commerce list of issues-2004


RGGI

Day Three
2009 Energy Plan
H446-text
Con
2009 VT Republican Party response to H.446
David O'Brien Response to H.446
Governor Douglas

Pro
VPIRG
Margaret Cheney
VNRC

H.781 Energy Bill
Douglas Signs
Overview and summary-REV

Day Four


Technical Background Reading:
Library:
Energy at the Crossroads, Smil
# Hardcover: 448 pages
# Publisher: MIT Press; (November 1, 2003)
# ISBN: 0262194929

Energy and Society. Schobert. Taylor & Francis NY, London, 2002.
ISBN 1-56032-767-7
HD9502.A2 S3975 2001

The Coming Oil Crisis. CJ Campbell, Jean Laherrere
* Paperback: 210 pages
* Publisher: Petroconsultants SA; (1997)
* ISBN: 0906522110

Energy, Science, Policy, and the Pursuit of Sustainability, Bent (Island Press, 2002)
* Paperback: 208 pages
* Publisher: Island Press; (May 2002)
* ISBN: 1559639113

Energy Revolution: Policies for a Sustainable Future, Howard Geller (Island Press, 2003)
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Island Press; (November 2002)
# ISBN: 1559639652


Hubbert's Peak, Deffeyes, Kenneth
* Publisher: Princeton Univeristy Press (2001)
* ISBN: 0-691-09086-6

Soft Energy Paths, Lovins, Amory
* Publisher: Friends of the Earth (1977)
* ISBN: 0-88410-614-4

Energy, A Guidebook, Ramage, Janet
* Publisher: Oxford U Press (1983)
* ISBN: 0-19-219169-1

Alternative Energy, Facts Statistics, and Issues, Berinstein, Paula
* Publisher: Oryx Press (2001)
* ISBN: 1-57356-248-3

World Energy Outlook 2000, International Energy Agency
OECD