{"product_id":"electrify-isbn-9780262545044","title":"Electrify","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClimate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something \u003cu\u003enow\u003c\/u\u003e—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In \u003ci\u003eElectrify\u003c\/i\u003e, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith’s plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGriffith, an engineer and inventor, calls for grid neutrality, ensuring that households, businesses, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world, mobilize industry as we did in World War II, and offer low-interest “climate loans.” Griffith’s plan doesn’t rely on big, not-yet-invented innovations, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses—but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis, there is no other project that would create as many jobs—up to twenty-five million, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else.PREFACE xi\u003cbr\u003e1 A GLIMMER OF HOPE 1\u003cbr\u003e2 WE HAVE LESS TIME THAN YOU THINK 11\u003cbr\u003e3 EMERGENCIES ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR LASTING CHANGE 21\u003cbr\u003e4 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW? 29\u003cbr\u003e5 2020s THINKING 47\u003cbr\u003e6 ELECTRIFY! 51\u003cbr\u003e7 WHERE WILL WE GET ALL THAT ELECTRICITY? 63\u003cbr\u003e8 24\/7\/365 75\u003cbr\u003e9 REDEFINING INFRASTRUCTURE 97\u003cbr\u003e10 TOO CHEAP TO METER 103\u003cbr\u003e11 BRINGING IT ALL HOME 111\u003cbr\u003e12 A MORTGAGE IS A TIME MACHINE 125\u003cbr\u003e13 PAYING FOR THE PAST 131\u003cbr\u003e14 REWRITE THE RULES! 137\u003cbr\u003e15 JOBS, JOBS, JOBS 145\u003cbr\u003e16 MOBILIZING FOR WORLD WAR ZERO 163\u003cbr\u003e17 CLIMATE CHANGE ISN’T EVERYTHING 173\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIXES: RABBIT HOLES 189\u003cbr\u003eA YES, AND . . . 191\u003cbr\u003eB WHAT CAN YOU DO TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? 203\u003cbr\u003eC DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: CLIMATE SCIENCE 101 211\u003cbr\u003eD DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: HOW TO READ A SANKEY FLOW DIAGRAM 219\u003cbr\u003eE DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: LOOK FOR YOURSELF 229\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS 231\u003cbr\u003eNOTES 233\u003cbr\u003eINDEX 245\u003cb\u003eSilver Medalist in Business Intelligence\/Innovation, 2022 Axiom Business Book Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most quietly revolutionary policy books I’ve ever read.\"—\u003cb\u003eDerek Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantiic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I don’t think anyone else has quite so credibly laid out a realistic plan for swift action in the face of an existential crisis.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBill McKibben,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"... the book demands attention.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Surprisingly optimistic, realistic, and persuasive.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e (Starred)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It’s very clear, it’s very practical, it’s very possiblist.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFive Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSaul Griffith, inventor, entrepreneur, and engineer, is founder of Rewiring America, a nonprofit dedicated to decarbonizing America by electrifying everything, and founder and chief scientist at Otherlab. He was a recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant” in 2007.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302225727717,"sku":"NP9780262545044","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545044.jpg?v=1767726138","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/electrify-isbn-9780262545044","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}