Environmental Engineering Reference
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It's impossible to foresee how far the ripples created by the efforts undertaken to raise awareness
about our precarious energy ecology will spread. Even though society is still headed toward a
wrenching collision with resource limits, educated and aware people have begun to build low-en-
ergy alternative food, transport, and building systems that can support organized human life during
the transition to a post-fossil-fuel future. How much more can be done in the time we still have?
Let's find out.
For a topic, it's the end of a decade. But it's not the end of the story.
— SEPTEMBER 2013
