This is an Online Internet Book Club on The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity by Ron Pernick, Clint Wilder. Discuss this book, share your thoughts, make comments, ask questions, offer responses...
Description
When industry giants such as GE, Toyota, and Sharp and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are making multibillion-dollar investments in clean technology, the message is clear. Developing clean technologies is no longer a social issue championed by environmentalists; it's a moneymaking enterprise moving solidly into the business mainstream. In fact, as the economy faces unprecedented challenges from high energy prices, resource shortages, and global environmental and security threats, clean tech—technologies designed to provide superior performance at a lower cost while creating significantly less waste than conventional offerings—promises to be the next engine of economic growth.
In The Clean Tech Revolution, authors Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder identify the major forces that have pushed clean tech from back-to-the-earth utopian dream to its current revolution among the inner circles of corporate boardrooms, on Wall Street trading floors, and in government offices around the globe. By highlighting eight major clean-tech sectors—solar energy, wind power, biofuels and biomaterials, green buildings, personal transportation, the smart grid, mobile applications, and water filtration—they uncover how investors, entrepreneurs, and individuals can profit from this next wave of technological innovation. Pernick and Wilder shine the spotlight on the winners among technologies, companies, and regions that are likely to reap the greatest benefits from clean tech—and they show you why the time to act is now.
Groundbreaking and authoritative, The Clean Tech Revolution is the must-read book to understand and profit from the clean technologies that are reshaping our fast-changing world.
Book Club Questions for The Clean Tech Revolution (Fiction)
Suggested Book Club Questions for The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity (Fiction)
The following book club questions provide a starting point for creating a reading group discussion on The Clean Tech Revolution:
- Did Ron Pernick, Clint Wilder emphasize any specific themes throughout The Clean Tech Revolution? What do you think Ron Pernick, Clint Wilder is trying to explain with this theme?
- What was unique about the setting of The Clean Tech Revolution and how did it affect the storyline?
- Could you relate to any of the characters? If so, which ones and why?
- How do characters change or learn throughout The Clean Tech Revolution? What events caused these changes? Have you or someone you know experienced the same thing?
- How does The Clean Tech Revolution reveal Ron Pernick, Clint Wilder's own perspectives about people and the world? For a lively discussion, describe why you think Ron Pernick, Clint Wilder is liberal or conservative.
- Did certain parts of The Clean Tech Revolution affect you emotionally? Why did it evoke those emotions?
- Did Ron Pernick, Clint Wilder's point of view on things lend new perspective to your own view of the world?
Book Club Questions for The Clean Tech Revolution (for Non-Fiction)
Suggested Book Club Questions for The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity (Non-fiction)
The following book club questions provide a starting point for creating a reading group discussion on The Clean Tech Revolution:
- Did Ron Pernick, Clint Wilder make persuasive arguments in The Clean Tech Revolution? Did The Clean Tech Revolution change or reinforce your opinion on the subject?
- What did you learn from The Clean Tech Revolution?
- How does Ron Pernick, Clint Wilder present the information and did you enjoy it?
- How is Ron Pernick, Clint Wilder biased within The Clean Tech Revolution? Is there a political slant to what is being discussed and how does it impact the book?
- What, if anything, does The Clean Tech Revolution make you want to read next? Why?
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