The Solar Revolution reveals for the first time how cutting-edge science can use the sun to provide sustainable food and energy for a global population of 10 billion people.
Steve McKevitt is an expert in communications and consumerism. Over a 25-year career his clients have included Nike, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank, Sony PlayStation, Harvey Nichols, Motorola, Universal, Virgin, BT and Atari. Steve is chairman of Golden, an ideas agency with clients in the UK, Europe and the USA, and also works as an advisor to national and regional UK government on employment, skills, business innovation and international trade. Professor Tony Ryan OBE is a polymer chemist at the University of Sheffield. He delivered the 2002 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and regularly appears on Radio 4's Infinite Monkey Cage with Brian Cox and Robin Ince, and has been on In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg.
Lucid, optimistic - and plans to save the world ... This is
stirring stuff, and well told
*Fred Pearce, New Scientist*
A ray of sunshine on the issues of food and energy security.
*Nature*
This is an important, much needed book. It shows that things can't
go on as they have done: population growth, fossil-fuel burning,
greenhouse-gas pollution. But it also explains that they don't need
to. Technologies exist, or are on the threshold of existing, that
can keep the lights on and keep food on the shelves. Without being
Panglossian or diminishing the challenge, Project Sunshine offers
rays of hope.
*Philip Ball, author of Critical Mass and H2O: A Biography of
Water*
Tony Ryan and Steve McKevitt argue forcefully that if we are to
tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today, we need to
put our local star at the centre of human affairs. They marshal a
wide range of scientific research to show that we could all benefit
from becoming a society of sun worshippers.
*Roger Highfield*
'A sweeping narrative of past and present, Project Sunshine
explores the way we use (and waste) our resources and how solar
power may yet solve the energy crisis ... with wonderful factual
nuggets and handy numbers to have up one's sleeve.
*Times Higher Education*
Insightful ... the handling of complex topics is exemplary.
*Irish Examiner*
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