Charging Ahead: The Business of Renewable Energy & What It Means for America

Shows how renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, & electric vehicles, when used together, can sustain a healthy economy & give us back a clean environment. Projects an inspiring yet realistic vision of this energy future & profiles the leading energy scientists, engineers, & entrepreneurs creating the solar, wind, geothermal, electric vehicle, & biomass industries that will change our world. Appraises current policies that have kept us reliant on oil, coal, uranium, & gas resources that pollute the atmosphere, exhaust our economy, & will one day become too expensive. Captures the excitement of creating new industries & reveals the foot-dragging of the government & fossil-fuel giants.