Discusses the world's history of energy production and consumption, and explains how alternative energy sources may help with the coming fossil fuel energy crisis and protecting the worldwide environment.

Energy and global warming : an introduction -- The world's reliance on fossil fuels : current energy usage -- Cutting fossil fuel emissions -- Bridge strategies : low-emission energy sources -- Developing clean and renewable electrical energy -- Reinventing transportation energy -- Achieving a clean-energy economy -- Challenges in the search for clean energy.