Library staff members will be working over the summer on putting together additional programs related to the book. If you have any ideas or suggestions, we would love to hear from you! Email us at library@cumberland.edu.
Here is some information about the book:
Amanda Griscom Little has been reporting and commenting on the changing environmental landscape for over a decade. From 2003-2007 she wrote “Muckraker,” the award-winning syndicated weekly column on energy and environmental policy for Salon.com and Grist.org. She is a contributing editor at Outside magazine, where she writes "Code Green," a monthly column on the people, products and ideas that are giving rise to the new green movement.
Her latest book, Power Trip, is a high-adventure romp through
Amanda Little choppers out to a Gulf of Mexico oil rig to explore the latest extreme-drilling technology; crawls down a New York City manhole to examine the guts of the grid; joins T. Boone Pickens on his private jet for a tour of his wind-farm fantasy; talks fuel logistics with top brass in the catacombs of the Pentagon; and shares a play-by-play of a silicone breast implant (it is petroleum derived, after all). A fast read about a critical subject that will appeal even to readers of every age, political persuasion, and level of expertise.
In a starred review, Kirkus called it "one of the best books on the energy crisis to emerge in recent years." J.P. Morgan selected Power Trip for its annual reading list, and bought 1000 copies. Robert Redford calls Amanda Little "the best of a new young perspective, a new voice of green." Jim Rogers, Chairman and CEO of Duke Energy said of Power Trip: “It's hard to imagine a book about energy that would appeal as much to a business executive as it would to an eco-activist--or, for that matter, to a soccer mom, a farmer, a politician or a student. Here it is. This provocative story about
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