Energy Without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity

by David McDermott Hughes

DUKE UNIV. PRESS: 2017. 208 PP. $23.95

In this book, Hughes takes on the ethical implications of fossil fuel development by exploring the history of resource extraction in Trinidad and Tobago, and confronting what he describes as the Trinidadian people’s ongoing complicity with climate change.

A Changing Climate for Science

by Sophie C. Lewis

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN: 2017. 157 PP $39.99

Lewis offers a first-hand account and critical examination of contemporary scientific practice that is part philosophy of science, part climate science. Through climate change research, she explores what we know, how we know it and the myriad hurdles confronting young scientists.

New Carbon Architecture: Building to Cool the Planet

by Bruce King

NEW SOCIETY PUBLISHERS: 2017. 176 PP. $29.99

Inspired to think about the embodied carbon of buildings by a Tesla driver whose license place read ZEROCARB, King brings together a collection of essays by architects, engineers and designers that describe the new practices and new materials needed to design net-zero buildings.