Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy is a 2007 book by Washington State Governor Jay Inslee and researcher Bracken Hendricks. Inslee first proposed an Apollo-scale program, designed to galvanize the nation around the urgent goal of solving the environmental and energy crises, in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 2002.[1] Eventually, Inslee co-authored Apollo's Fire, in which he says that through improved federal policies, the United States can wean itself off of its dependence on foreign oil and fossil fuel, create millions of green-collar worker jobs, and stop global warming. Along these lines, he has been a prominent supporter of the Apollo Alliance.[2]
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| Author | Jay Inslee Bracken Hendricks |
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| Publisher | Island Press |
Publication date | 2007 |
| Pages | 387 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-1-59726-175-3 |
| OCLC | 150255581 |
In "Chapter 2: Reinventing the car", Apollo's Fire highlights innovative efforts such as CalCars, founded in 2002 to promote plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), charged by off-peak electricity from renewable energy sources, as a key to addressing oil dependence and global warming worldwide.[3][4]
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton wrote the foreward of the book.[5][6]
Reception
editA review of the book in Publishers Weekly described the book as an "energetic articulation of a clean-energy future."[7] A review of the book in Whatcom Watch wrote that "First, we owe Inslee and Hendricks standing applause for undertaking the effort to collect data and write this book. For organization, background, writing and inspiration I’d give them an A+. For motivation and detailed recommendations, they still have some work to do."[8] Michael McGinn credited the book for establishing Inslee as a "serious thinker on climate."[9]
See also
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References
edit- ^ Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dec. 19, 2002.
- ^ Inslee articles at the Apollo Alliance web page Archived 2008-11-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Inslee, Jay; Bracken Hendricks (2007). Apollo's Fire. Island Press, Washington, D.C. pp. 36–40. ISBN 978-1-59726-175-3.
- ^ Sherry Boschert (2006). Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that will Recharge America. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, Canada. pp. 49–66. ISBN 978-0-86571-571-4.
- ^ https://rollcall.com/2007/10/29/apollos-fire-inslees-plan-for-an-energy-revolution/
- ^ https://www.bainbridgereview.com/news/inslee-bullish-on-nations-clean-energy-future/
- ^ https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781597261753
- ^ https://whatcomwatch.org/jan-2002-to-sept-2015/2008/5/php/WW_openf566.html?id=938
- ^ https://www.cascadepbs.org/2016/03/how-inslee-can-change-the-script-on-climate-issues