Global Seminar : Energy: Summer 2015

Global Energy Balance and Climate Change

• The Age of Sustainable Development, by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Columbia University Press, New York, 2015).  pp. 394-414
• IPCC 2014 Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers
  • Supplemental readings: EPA - Causes of Climate Change
  • EPA - Climate Change Indicators in the United States
  • International Energy Agency - About Climate Change

Global Politics and Economics of Energy

• "The Economic Fallout of the Freeze on Ohio’s Clean Energy Sector", by Gwynne Taraska and Alison Cassady.
• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, by Naomi Klein (Simon and Schuster, New York, 2014), Introduction.
• "World Energy Outlook 2015 Special Report on Energy and Climate Change", International Energy Agency: Executive Summary.
  • Supplementary: NRCD - Renewable Energy For America
  • World Energy Council - World Energy Trilemma 2015: Priority actions on climate change and how to balance the trilemma
  • "World Energy Outlook 2015 Special Report on Energy and Climate Change", International Energy Agency. Full Report - see above link.

Ecological and Social Justice issues around climate change and energy

• InTeGrate: Climate Forecasting and Adaptation through the Ages
• Mary Robinson Foundation: Principles of Climate Justice
• Resource Websites: World Watch Institute
  • No Frack Ohio
  • Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

Ogoni - Petroleum Issue

• Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization : Ogoni: Petroleum – Curse Rather than Blessing
• High Country News: The Great Giveaway
• Mary Robinson Foundation: Share Benefits and Burdens Equitably

Sustainable Energy

• "Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies", S. Pacala and R. Socolow, Science 305, 968 (2004).

• "Rethinking Wedges", S.J. Davis et al, Environ. Res. Lett. 8 (2013)
  • Supplementary: http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/
  • "Energy, Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: Five Propositions", S. Sorrell, Sustainability 2010, 2, 1784-1809
  • Basic Needs and Much More with One Kilowatt per Capita", Goldemberg et al., Ambio, Vol. 14, No. 4/5, Energy in Developing Countries (1985), pp. 190-200

Leadership for Global Energy Transition

• Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth, Jim Merkel. Web.
  • Chapter 1
  • Forward
  • Global Living Project