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SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

NEW NEW Energy Transitions
Global and National
The Electric Battery Planet of the Grapes
Perspectives
Charging Forward to A Geography of Wine Second Edition | VACLAV SMIL
a Low-Carbon Future ROBERT SECHRIST

KEVIN B. JONES,
BENJAMIN B. JERVEY,
MATTHEW ROCHE, AND
SARA BARNOWSKI

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introduction to the geography, culture, with the latest published data
and history of wine that identifies the on the discussed subjects and
“ electric battery is a key to significance of this simple beverage numerous useful references.
The authors show how the
”
throughout human history and today.
Recommended. All readers.
achieving our sustainable FEATURES —Choice, July 1, 2017
energy revolution. ” • Uses a geographic perspective This book provides a detailed, global
—U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, to examine the wide diversity of examination of energy transitions,
January 30, 2017 significant characteristics of grape
varieties, growing conditions, and supplying a long-term historical
An easy-to-understand and engaging winemaking techniques perspective, an up-to-date assessment
exploration of the battery’s development • Describes the diffusion of wine of recent and near-term advances in
across history that reveals current culture from the Caucasus foothills to energy production technology and
technological advances, celebrates the the rest of the world implementation, and an explanation of
innovators who have led the charge • Traces the transformation of wine why efforts to limit global warming and
forward, and shows how the electric (and alcohol in general) from being to shift away from fossil fuels have been
battery represents the path to a low- an essential “food item” widely gradual.
carbon future. consumed by the masses to being
considered a scourge on society FEATURES
to being revered as a cultured • Presents historical coverage of energy
KEVIN B. JONES, PhD, is director commodity production, energy use, and key
of Vermont Law School’s Institute for technical and economic factors that
Energy and the Environment (IEE). • Includes unique tables that simplify affect the currently unfolding transitions
comparisons of wines between
BENJAMIN B. JERVEY is the Climate regions
and Energy Media Fellow at Vermont
Law School. VACLAV SMIL is Distinguished
Professor Emeritus in the Faculty
MATTHEW ROCHE graduated from ROBERT SECHRIST, PhD, is professor of Environment at the University of
Vermont Law School in 2016. of geography at Indiana University of Manitoba.
Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, where he
SARA BARNOWSKI is a third-year law has taught for 30 years.
student at Vermont Law.
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