Part I: Where we are : Where birds don't fly -- Today's date: 1 E.C.E. today's weather: Hot, flat, and crowded -- Part II: How we got here : Our carbon copies (or, Too many Americans) -- Fill 'er up with dictators -- Fill 'er up with dictators -- Global weirding -- The age of Noah -- Energy poverty -- Green is the new red, white, and blue -- Part III. How we move forward : 205 easy ways to save the Earth -- The energy Internet: When IT meets ET -- The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones -- If it isn't boring, it isn't green -- A million Noahs, a million arks -- Outgreening al-Qaeda (or Buy one, get four free) -- Part IV. China : Can Red China become Green China? -- Part V. America : China for a day (but not for two) -- A democratic China, or a banana republic?

1. Green movement -- United States
2. Green technology -- United States
3. Climatic changes
4. Power resources -- Environmental aspects
5. Environmental policy -- United States
6. Energy policy -- United States
7. United States -- Environmental conditions
8. United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020