January 12. Introductory Lecture
Readings for Wednesday, January 14:
Surf around the IEA website for good sources, overviews, data, stats, on global energy. Be critical. The IEA is basically the consuming countries' answer to OPEC and the 73/74 oil crisis.
IEA World Energy Outlook 2014 (summary): http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/media/weowebsite/2014/141112_WEO_FactSheets.pdf
Laura Nader. 1981. Barriers to Thinking New About Energy (Blackboard)
Start reading Jeff Biggers, Reckoning at Eagle Creek (chapters 1 & 2 for this week).
Syllabus corrected: Final paper due April 10.