Discuss America’s Energy Future with us
A discussion of Big Coal with David Holdeman, Chair of One Book / One Community Committee and Department of English and Associate Deans at UNT
UNT’s One Book, One Community project focuses each year on a theme of general interest to students, their families, faculty, staff, administration and the community at large. Through discussions of that theme and its incorporation into a wide variety of activities, we seek to strengthen the ties that have brought us together at UNT. Our theme for 2009-2010 is America’s Energy Future. As a way of launching discussions, we have chosen a book around which to organize discussion sessions with freshmen and transfer students in small sessions to take place on Wednesday, August 26th (details TBA). All entering freshman and discussion leaders will receive a free copy of a special printing of our book with the UNT logo on the cover.
Our book for 2009-10 is Jeff Goodell’s Big Coal (2006). Goodell spent three full years researching this fascinating look at the economic, environmental, and cultural forces behind the coal industry in America and around the world. In addition to Goodell’s public lecture to take place on October 6th (details forthcoming), we will host lectures and workshops that represent the widest possible range of political, economic, and cultural points of view in relation to both the larger theme of America’s Energy Future, and the arguments and assumptions behind Big Coal as well.
Please help us present a balanced approach to the theme America’s Energy Future and the book Big Coal by exploring the links and information to the left.
If you are a student with a disability (blindness, dyslexia, or other print disability) you can download a digital copy of Big Coal by joining Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic at http://www.rfbd.org/promotions.htm.
For questions or more information, email David Holdeman at david.holdeman@unt.edu; or Ernest Lerma at Ernest.Lerma@unt.edu.
- Jeff Goodell interview on NPR’s Fresh Air, 6-21-07, 38 minutes
- Jeff Goodell interview on the Diane Rehm Show, 7-06-06, 50 minutes
- Could Coal Make the U.S. Energy Independent? Jeff Goodell & Joe Lucas, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, 5-12-06, 40 minutes
Energy and Coal in the News
Audio Segments
Links sent to us from faculty, staff, students, and interested citizens:
- Refitted to Bury Emmissions, Plant Draws Attention
- States Can Sue Utilities Over Emissions
- Robert P. Smith, Energy Present & Future
- Public Agenda Paper on Climate Change
- Star-Telegram article on Exxon and Biofuels
- John Hofmeister Speaks at UNT
- The Dirty War Against Clean Coal
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Washington Post Op-Ed on mountaintop mining
- AEP, Southern Withdraw From FutureGen Coal Project
- Tilting at Green Windmills
- Collapse of the Clean Coal Myth
- Toxic Coal in Tennessee
- W.VA. Case Test When Judges Should Step Aside
- Energy Dept. Said to Err on Coal Project
- E.P.A. Plans Closer Review of Mountaintop Mining Permits
- Burning the Future: Coal in America
- Citizens for Affordable Energy
- A Plea To President Obama: End Mountaintop Coal Mining
- With the Clearing of Forests, Baby Orangutans are Marooned
- Mountain Justice
- iLove Mountains.org
- United Mountain defense
- Kentuckians For The Commonwealth
- FutureGen Rises from the Dead: The DOE's backing revives a pioneering clean-coal project
- Future GenAlliance FAQ
- Capital Pollution Solution?
- The Promise and Problems of Those Dirty Black Rocks
- What It Costs Us
- Mixing Solar with Coal to Cut Costs