Someone posted about Alice Friedemann in an online community I participate in. I found her book Life After Fossil Fuels and blog energyskeptic.com influential. The book may be expensive and the blog dense, but she cites all her sources and her publisher is Springer, which holds a high reputation for science publishing. I haven’t yet read her book When Trucks Stop Running, but she’s described a lot of it in her interviews and conversations.
I’ve mentioned her in several posts:
- Reader question: Why do I say solar and wind aren’t clean, green, or renewable?
- Renewables are less renewable than we thought. That’s the starting point.
- Overwhelming research: “Green Growth” is a scam that accelerates lowering Earth’s ability to sustain life. Following or propagating it hurts us.
- Environmental leadership resources
All those posts are years old. It was time for me to brush up on her research so I downloaded and watched many conversations with her. I recommend them. (iAlso podcast guest Christopher Ketcham‘s article The Green Growth Delusion.)
There’s also a video here by a documentary filmmaker hosted on that site that doesn’t give an option to embed so you have to go there.
NOTE: I don’t consider her work effective leadership. I find it useful after a mindset shift. I think it might be difficult to process if you haven’t already developed a vision for a brighter future without fossil fuels or uranium, as I have, and a mission and strategies to reach it. I’d recommend reading Sustainability Simplified first, or to take my workshop, though feel free to dive into her work.