Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology
Kirkus, 3/1/11“Eye-opening micro-histories about American energy past, with an eye to the future...A well-told cautionary tale about the need for widespread renewable-energy production.”Conservation,March 2011“It’s refreshing to read a history book whose intent is to improve decisions in the present and near future…[An] able account of the very checkered history of green energy schemes in America…Madrigal has the best critique I’ve seen of the ‘appropriate technology’ philosophy promoted by myWhole Earth Catalogin the 1970s…[An] admirable book.”