First published 2024
Bob Keefe works as both journalist and business leader in climate policy. He travels to Kings Mountain, North Carolina and Blue Oval City, Tennessee to document the clean energy transformation happening across America. These towns represent modern frontier communities where battery plants and electric vehicle factories rise from empty farmland. Keefe meets the entrepreneurs and innovators building this new economy. He shows how predictions about clean energy have become reality. Smart businesses and communities now grab the opportunities this shift creates. The book reveals how climate action reshapes the economy, daily life, and the planet's future. Keefe demonstrates that the long-anticipated energy revolution has arrived and is revitalizing communities that earlier economic changes left behind.
Genres: business, economics, environment, non-fiction, 21st-century, climate-change
Vibes: thought-provoking
Tropes: non-fiction
Setting: Blue Oval City, Kings Mountain, North Carolina, Tennessee
Period: 21st-century
296 pages · Hardcover · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers