BK 63: (Oct 3, 2023) The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet

 

Hi Everyone...

Our Oct 3rd meeting we will discuss the book The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet by Hal Harvey (Jun 6, 2023). With 238 reading pages it is approximately 8 pages a day. 

Check out the Bio, links and videos below:

"A smart, honest, and down-to-earth” (Elizabeth Kolbert) citizen’s guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate.

If you think the only thing you can do to combat climate change is to install a smart thermostat or cook plant-based meat, you’re thinking too small.

In The Big Fix, energy policy advisor Hal Harvey and longtime New York Times reporter Justin Gillis offer a new, hopeful way to engage with one of the greatest problems of our age. Writing in a lively, accessible style, the pair illuminate how the really big decisions that affect our climate get made—whether by the most obscure public utilities commissions or in the lofty halls of state capitols—and reveal how each of us can influence these decisions to deliver change. The pair focus on the seven areas of our political economy where ambitious but practical changes will have the greatest effect: from what kind of power plants to build to how much insulation new houses require to how efficient cars must be before they’re allowed on the road.

Equal parts pragmatic and inspiring—and “full of illustrative stories and compelling evidence” (Al Gore)—The Big Fix provides an action plan for anyone serious about holding our governments accountable and saving our threatened planet."

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This is what we discussed at the meeting...

* General feeling of the book

* Green Program Biden

* Other places like Oregon etc.

* Buses (Kids protesting, Chicago, express, traffic light system, faster and cheaper than L

* Stats Europe Leading in Windmills, GB 1/3 power

* Rights/Law

* 1920s TX

* Economy Scale/Learning Curve

* Nuclear

* Hydrogen

* Clean Codes

* Hydro/Water Dams

* Heat Pumps

* Japan

* 3 Gorges Dam China

* Rotterdam

* Infrastructure Bill

* Trees

* Meat - Impossible Burger

* Clean Energy

* 7 Steps 

* New Lenox Sports Complex

** If there is anything I forgot please let me know!