"As oil reserves dwindle and global warming accelerates, a rapid switch to renewable energy is imperative. The question is whether it will lead us into a solar-powered corporate dictatorship, or a decentralized mix of autonomous and geographically appropriate energy sources. Greg Pahl’s Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook provides an inspiring vision and a wonderfully specific blueprint for beginning to save both the planet and our other greatest natural resource—our own shredded sense of community."

—Ross Gelbspan, author of Boiling Point and The Heat Is On

"Greg Pahl's Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook is a lucid, easy-to-read guide to what citizens of the planet can do about our energy dilemmas."

—Dan Berman, author of Who Owns the Sun?

"The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook should be in the hands of every community activist across North America. It promises to be the catalyst that finally moves community ownership to the forefront of renewable energy development.

—Paul Gipe, author of Wind Power: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business

"If you have read enough already about our problems and are motivated to get to work, this book is for you. It goes far beyond being a primer on renewable energy technologies. By placing renewable energy into a broad social context, it will help citizens work cooperatively with governments and businesses to create community-scaled solutions. I wish I’d had this book years ago."

—Dr. Jason Bradford, Willits Economic LocaLization