Handbook, Solutions In Your Community

In a new book, the focus is on the renewable energy sector - solar, wind, water, biomass, liquid biofuels, and geothermal.

Author Greg Pahl is a 1967 graduate of the University of Vermont and a former military Intelligence officer in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. A full-time freelance journalist for many years, he has written feature articles for numerous publications.

The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis is a practical handbook for community and regional action to deal head-on with environmental challenges and to take responsibility for energy supplies now controlled by large, distant utilities and consortiums.

Geothermal energy is not only lucrative but also is gaining ground.

In addition, he is the author of Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy (2005, Chelsea Green), Natural Home Heating: The Complete Guild to Renewable Energy Options (2003, Chelsea Green), The Complete Idiot's Guide to Saving the Environment (2001, Macmillan/Alpha Books), and others.