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Biodiesel America: How to Achieve Energy Security, Free America from Middle-East Oil Dependence And Make Money Growing Fuel. By Josh Tickell. Provides a fresh perspective on our oil-laden history (why America is more dependent on oil than any other nation) and on the true potential for a fossil-fuel-free future. Shows that an abundance of economically viable and profitable energy solutions are available. Tickell explains his view that biodiesel is at the forefront of these new energy technologies, and that it could bring more than one million jobs to rural America, invigorate our economy, and create a stable domestic fuel supply. More… | Josh Tickell EcoSpeakers Info >>

Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. By Katie Alvord. Divorcing your car can take many forms, from simply using it less to not owning one at all. This practical guide shows how divorcing a car can be fun, healthy, money-saving, and helpful to the planet. While most other transportation reform books emphasize long-range political and economic policy, this book speaks less about policy and more about realistic actions individuals can take to reduce their car dependence. It suggests all the reasons not to drive and the many alternative ways we can all get around without our cars. More… | Katie Alvord EcoSpeakers Info >>

Alcohol Can Be A Gas! Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century. By David Blume. With all the conflicting news stories about ethanol, the public can find it difficult to sort fact from fiction. This book explains the history, technology, and even the sociology of renewable fuels in a fashion that can be appreciated by expert and novice alike. It is the only comprehensive book written on alcohol fuel production, its uses for home and farm, and converting vehicles to run on it. Includes step-by-step instructions to help anyone build an ethanol plant or convert their car into an alternative fuel vehicle. More… | David Blume EcoSpeakers Info >>

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Beat High Gas Prices Now! By Diane MacEachern. Sets out practical, and easy-to-do things one can do to reduce gasoline consumption, and quantifies the savings that will result. More… | Diane MacEachern EcoSpeakers Info >>

Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation that Works. By Jim Motavalli. Examines smart cars and smart tolls as responses to sprawl, and telecommuting and e-commerce as a reaction to burgeoning "edge cities." Considers cleaner cars as well as potential improvements in bus, water and air transportation. More... | Jim Motavalli EcoSpeakers Info >>

Charging Ahead. By Joe Sherman. Tells the story of the Solectria Corporation's efforts to develop and market an electric car. Scientists and engineers work to do something for the environment while trying to grab a piece of a very small niche market. Also a critique of the "Big 3" automakers. More... | Joe Sherman EcoSpeakers Info >>

Colonel Albert Pope and His American Dream Machines: The Life and Times of a Bicycle Tycoon Turned Automotive Pioneer. By Stephen Goddard. Pope's company was the world's largest manufacturer of bicycles in the late 1800s. His production methods pointed the way for the building of automobiles through lightweight metals, rubber tires, precision machining, interchangeability of parts, and vertical integration. The founder of the Good Roads Movement, Pope entered automobile manufacturing while steam, electricity, and gasoline power were still vying for supremacy. The story of his failed dream of dominating U.S. automobile production is an engrossing view into America's industrial history. More... | Stephen Goddard EcoSpeakers Info >>

Forward Drive: The Race to Build "Clean" Cars for the Future. By Jim Motavalli. Covers the effort to build lower emission and zero emission cars. Detailed information about electric cars and fuel cell powered vehicles. More... | Jim Motavalli EcoSpeakers Info >>

From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank. By Josh Tickell and Kaia Tickell. Details all aspects of running diesel engines on vegetable oil. Includes information on biodiesel, the diesel fuel substitute made from new or used vegetable oil, as well as information on running any diesel engine on straight vegetable oil. Packed with history, information, instructions, photos, diagrams and resources. More... | Josh Tickell EcoSpeakers Info >>

Getting There: The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century. By Stephen Goddard. Goddard tells the story of how the struggle between the highwaymen and the railroaders ultimately changed the course of modern transportation. He describes how automakers, engineers, contractors, and government officials dethroned the railroad barons. More... | Stephen Goddard EcoSpeakers Info >>

In the Rings of Saturn. By Joe Sherman. A step-by-step account of the progress of Saturn Corporation (a General Motors division) from its inception through the company's first two years of car production. More... | Joe Sherman EcoSpeakers Info >>

Race to the Sky: The Wright Brothers Versus the United States Government. By Stephen Goddard. This book tells the story of the struggle between the Wright brothers and the Federal Government to be first to build a flying machine, and the raw ambition, high ideals, greed, and cloak and dagger tactics of each side. Everything came to a head in eight tense days in December when the battle, and the fame and fortune that would follow, was decided and the Wright brothers emerged victorious. More... | Stephen Goddard EcoSpeakers Info >>

Road to Ruin: An Introduction to Sprawl and How to Cure It. By Dom Nozzi. Provides an easy-to-follow introduction to sprawl's causes and offers common-sense solutions. America has been obsessed with a desire to improve conditions for cars, not people, primarily through enormous subsidies for road widening and construction of free parking. Design principles encouraging walking, bicycling, and mass transit in conjunction with automobile travel are essential to creating livable cities. More… | Dom Nozzi EcoSpeakers Info >>

Sprawl Kills: How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health And Money. By Joel Hirschhorn. About urban sprawl, land use, suburbia, automobile addiction, active living, the sprawl industry, the sprawl lobby, and the healthy places alternative to sprawl to improve your quality of life and physical and mental health. More... | Joel Hirschhorn EcoSpeakers Info >>

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