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PCL/5/3/e/76
Title
Current Issues of Energy Conservation in the United States: background readings
Date(s)
- nd [c1978] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 volume, Printed document
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(1970-1992)
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Scope and content
Comb-bound volume prepared by the American Studies Resource Centre designed to introduce some of the most important non-technical issues related to energy conservation in the United States.
Includes a preface by Bill Bryson, copies from Hammond, Metz & Maugh's 'Energy and the Future', a chapter on president Carter's National Energy Plan (1977), extract from Hays 'A Ray of Hope', articles by Harold Gilliam and Joann Edin, articles from Environmental Comment, a draft bill by Alternative Technology Action Coalition, a reprint of the 1977 Local Energy Action Program Survey, extract from Starr's 'Economic Growth, Conservation and Electricity', Steinhart's Low Energy Scenario and Seaborg's 'Recycle Society of Tomorrow'.
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Status: Open. Access is subject to signing the Regulations for Access form, unless the records are restricted under the Data Protection Act 2018 or under exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000