Item PCL/5/3/e/76 - Current Issues of Energy Conservation in the United States: background readings

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'.