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Article: Energy Autonomy: the Economic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable Energy.
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- Environments
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Scheer, Hermann 2007. Sterling, VA: EarthScan Publications, 320 pages, ISBN 978-1-84407-355-9 (hardcover), CDN $39.95 (hardcover).
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