Brown Bag, Green Book #10: Power Trip

Harvey Abouelata led a discussion of alternative energy sources as explored in Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells--Our Ride to the Renewable Future by Amanda Little.

Prominent journalist Amanda Little maps out the history and future of America's energy addiction in a wonk-free, big-picture, solutions-oriented adventure story. After covering the environment and energy beat for more than a decade, Little decided that the only way to really understand America's energy crisis was to travel into the heart of it. She embarks on a daring cross-country power trip, and describes in vivid, fast-paced prose the most extreme and exciting frontiers of our energy landscape. Little illustrates how abundant oil and coal built the American superpower—even as they posed political and environmental dangers to the nation and the world. More important, we learn how the same American ingenuity that got us into this mess can get us out of it.

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About Harvey Abouelata

Harvey Abouelata is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Efficient Energy of Tennessee. In this position, he oversees sales, product development and marketing of Residential and Commercial products and services for EETN, including solar photovoltaic and solar thermal technology, energy audits and HERS ratings, weatherization, power factor correction, renewable energy education through webinars and seminars and energy grant writing. He holds a Bachelor's of Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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