A review of Cold Cash, Cool Climate by Leslie Field in the new journal Energy Research & Social Science
Leslie Field, a consulting professor in electrical engineering at Stanford University who teaches a class titled “Engineering and climate change”, wrote a nice review of Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs in the first issue of the new journal Energy Research & Social Science She’s used the book twice in her class, to good effect. The review is available online through Science Direct, which is behind a paywall, but I can send you a personal use copy if you email me.
I lectured in Leslie’s class at her invitation this past school year, sharing the class with my old friend Terry Root.
Here’s the first paragraph:
Dr. Jonathan Koomey’s 199-page gem of a book provides a brilliant, targeted and concise analytical basis for the evaluation and development of entrepreneurial understanding and opportunities in the climate space. The book is meant to give time-strapped ecological entrepreneurs a scientific grounding in what opportunities and constraints arise from the numerous and growing problems that stem from climate change – and this reviewer has also used it twice as an introductory text for the graduate-level seminar class she started and teaches on Engineering and Climate Change at Stanford.
And here’s the last paragraph:
Don’t think you’ve read the full story about this deceptively accessible book in this short review. The meticulously researched figures, the examples, the tables and appendices are packed full of careful detail that can help an entrepreneur, an innovator, a concerned citizen, to get going rapidly to develop his or her own breakthrough contributions to the large collection of approaches that must be imagined and evaluated and selected among, in order to accelerate our progress toward the kind of future that we would be happy to leave to our children, and to theirs. Respectfully, it’s time to get going.
It’s nice to have the book being used for the purpose for which it was intended, inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs to tackle the climate problem, which is the biggest collective (and adaptive) challenge humanity has ever faced.
