Bill Gates on Energy Transitions
Bill Gates in and interview, Reinventing Capitalism, talks about Vaclav Smil’s Energy Transitions: “Vaclav Smil has written a ton of books – I...
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MIT Press to release PRIME MOVERS OF GLOBALIZATION in September 2010
The many books on globalization published over the past few years range from claims that the world is flat to an unlikely rehabilitation of Genghis Khan as a pi...
New book is to be released on July 16, 2010
Energy Myths and Realities:Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate Myth: New energy sources and technical innovations will eliminate the need for fossil fu...
Bill Gates Discusses Energy with Vaclav Smil
In the last few months I have read three books by Vaclav Smil that I highly recommend. He also recently visited our offices and opened my eyes to new ways to th...
Four New Books Coming Out in 2010
Why America is Not a New Rome (The MIT Press) has just come out (see Books) and three new books will be published later in 2010. Prime Movers of Globalization: ...
Smil on Hummers, Hondas, Meat, Heat: Interview with Andrew Revkin, NYT
For a couple of decades, Vaclav Smil has been on my go-to list when questions arise about global trends and risks, and particularly about energy. He is a dist...
Interview with Greg Ross, Scientists’ Nightstand
SCIENTISTS’ NIGHTSTAND Greg Ross Vaclav Smil is a distinguished professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba. His most recent boo...