Call for submissions:
new book on comprehensive renewable energy practice and targets by companies, communities, cities, regions and nations.
Please allow me to invite you to contribute to a special forthcoming publication, designed to document, analyze and disseminate current practice, projects and plans for companies, individuals, communities, cities and countries that are determined to be 100% fossil-fuel and nuclear power free.
100% is conceived as a compendium of critical, immediately relevant action paths and practical solutions already available at local, national or international scales to achieve this goal in sustainable ways, ie without creating other harmful effects.
The focus is on moves to abolish the use of fossil fuels as primary energy source and other, similar initiatives, suitable to help halt the slide towards global a tipping point in atmospheric and oceanic carbon concentrations; to stabilize and even improve the livelihood of the many communities under climate change pressures; or/and to drastically lower energy risks by moving away from fossil and nuclear fuel use - by rapidly moving to or already having reached a 100-percent renewable energy base. The goal can be obtained through a combination or any of: renewable energy, efficiency and conservation, and other strategies to live, work and prosper without coal, petroleum, natural gas or, indeed nuclear power which poses other, intolerably serious risks.
Submission format and deadlines. Kindly submit a 100-200 word synopsis or outline of your intended contribution, along with a description of yourself, your work and/or that of the group you are representing in no more than 50 words, either by return email, or by mail to Prof. Peter Droege, Editor, 100% <peter.droege@newcastle.edu.au>. After a period of editorial review you will receive a response with further advice on your submissions, and, as appropriate, on scope, format and timing for your ultimate contribution. It is envisioned that the ultimate length of most entries will be in the 3-6,000 word range. There is also the option of transforming the information provided by you into research narrative, while guaranteeing full credit to all authors, contributors, researchers and/or other sources.
Proposed contents.
- The case for, background of and principles for 100% RE strategies
- Constraints to, limits and risks of 100% paths, and means of overcoming these
- Definitions, principles and means for a 100%-fossil fuel free life
- 100% renewable individuals and families
- 100% renewable farms and businesses
- 100% renewable products and services
- 100% renewable villages, towns, cities, islands and regions
- 100% renewable country-wide plans and strategies
- Practical blueprints and steps towards a 100% renewable world
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Peter Droege
Editor, 100%