Thursday, September 11, 2008

Free E-booX

I forgot to post this draft. 

I was watching Meet the Press. Joe Biden and Tom Friedman were on.
http://mtp.msnbc.com
Last Sunday"s show:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/
Transcript
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26590488/
Last segment with Tom Friedman
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26590488/page/5/
MR. BROKAW: We're back live in Wilmington, Delaware. And with us now,
having traveled from Washington all that way, author of the new book
"Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It
Can Renew America," Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist from The New
York Times, Tom Friedman.

Friedman is very vivid but a bit too glib and tends to jump from idea
to idea. I don't think I would buy his book. He had a good point to
make about "the price signal" and making that national policy instead
of surfing the market.

You may have heard of Lester Brown"s Plan 3.0. In a way Friedman is
ripping him off or popularizing a variation of what he and Al Gore
are saying.
I just downloaded the free pdf version which is available at his site
or linked from treehugger
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/book_review_pla.php
all ccxviii pages of the pdf are numbered in roman numerals for some
reason
perhaps to distinguish them from the page numbers in the actual text
http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/index.htm
http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/PB3/Contents.htm
http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/80by2020.htm
or you can pay money
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393330877/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk

Speaking of free online books about saving the world/climate/solving
the energy problem,
you can also get Amory Lovins' book Winning the Oil Endgame online.
http://www.oilendgame.com/ReadTheBook.html
http://www.oilendgame.com/ExecutiveSummary.html
There was an article about him in the economist Sept 4.
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11999219
A $40 bargain:
www.amazon.com/ Winning-Oil-Endgame-Amory-Lovins/dp/1881071103
At TED:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/
amory_lovins_on_winning_the_oil_endgame.html

And speaking of free electronic text, Cory Doctorow's novels are
available free at
http://craphound.com/indexphp?cat=5
That'll save you about $100 you could have spent at amazon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%
5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Cory%20Doctorow

That reminds me that I recently downloaded Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman from http://wiki.stealthiswiki.org/  That is a book which I once found in a used bookstore around 1980 and considered a fossil even then. Updated 2008 versions and variations have been created for online reading and downloading, for what it's worth.  

I really need to add treehugger and worldchanging links to the sidebar.
http://www.treehugger.com
http://www.worldchanging.com/

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