General
U.S. Energy Security Facts
This booklet provides facts about U.S. energy use and energy security. The booklet contains facts including U.S. oil sources and uses, oil efficiency achievements, and potential for further efficiency achievements. It also includes an analysis of the American energy security situation.
We Can Take Politics Out of Energy Policy
This editorial describes the 2001 National Energy Policy Initiative, an effort by bipartisan energy policy experts to come to a consensus on the nation’s energy needs for security, prosperity, justice and environmental quality. The NEP Initiative’s suggestions were strong on market mechanisms and light on regulation. They rested on such…
Energy Forever
This article, which is the second in a two-part series, is about American energy security. Amory and Hunter Lovins respond to the suggestion of relying on oil from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with arguments for relying on energy efficiency instead. Many tasks that rely on oil could be substituted…
Military Transformation and the Roots of National Security
This article, published in the wake of the September 11 attacks, responds to the United States government’s actions and offers strategies for security. The article describes what security is, where it comes from, and who is responsible for it. The author describes how to make a society like the United…
How to Get Real Security
This article, adapted from a previous piece and published in the Whole Earth Review, describes strategies for establishing effective security. It offers political, economic, and environmental strategies for ensuring worldwide security. The author provides a formula for security that addresses the root causes of terrorism, supports sustainable societies, achieves energy…