In This Issue: July/August 2006
Confronting the Climate Change Crisis
 

Features
 
What Is the Evidence, and What Can We Do About It?

Energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies will play major roles in addressing global warming.
By Chuck Kutscher

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What Policy Approach Is Most Effective?
Europe’s experience reveals that feed-in tariffs may promote renewable energy most quickly and at least cost in the long run.
By Harry Lehmann, Ph.D., and Werner Niederle

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Tipping Toward Renewable Energy?
Why photovoltaic and wind energy systems may finally be going mainstream.
By Andy Kruse

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Green Power to the People
How Coloradans won the nation’s first voter-led renewable energy standard.
By Rick Gilliam and Matt Baker

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On the Cover
A stream of melt water cascades off the vast Arctic ice sheet that covers Greenland. Scientists attribute acceleration in the melting of ice sheets to global warming.
Photo © by Roger Braithwaite/Peter Arnold Inc.

Columns
Chair's Corner: Examining “An Inconvenient Truth”
By Ronal W. Larson, Ph.D.
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Investing in Clean Energy: Powerful Winds
By Rona Fried, Ph.D.

View From the States: Solar Shines in Washington
By Mike Nelson

Sustainable Worldview: Biofuels Burgeoning in Brazil
By Michael Totten

RE Works: Milking Solar Savings at Goat Lady Dairy
By Gabriela Martin

Wind Energy News: Cool Breezes
By Christine Real de Azua

Ask Ken: Energy-Saving Q&As
By Ken Sheinkopf

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