The Solar Economy

From fossil fuels to solar power: The power of the pyromaniacs; Fossil resource dependency - how economic processes have come adrift from their environmental and social bases; Global competition in place of global environmental policy; The origins of the fossil-fuel economy; Accelerating change and global displacement; Business unbound - cutting loose from nature and society; Reconnecting business and society through solar resources; From the political to the economic solar manifesto. PART I CAPTIVITY OR LIBERATION: FOSSIL FUEL AND SOLAR SUPPLY CHAINS COMPARED: ensnared by fossil supply chains; exploiting solar resources - the new political and and economic freedom. PART II THE PATHOLOGICAL POLITICS OF FOSSIL RESOURCES: the 21st-century writing on the wall - the political cost of fuel and resource conflict; the distorting effects of fossil supply chains; the mythology of fossil energy. PART III THROWING OFF THE FOSSIL SUPPLY CHAINS: energy beyond the grid; the untapped wealth of solar resources; The profitability of renewable energy and resources. PART IV TOWARDS A SOLAR ECONOMY: exploiting solar energy; Regionalization of the global economy through solar resources; the visible hand of the sun - blueprint for a solar world