Phillip J. Greene, M.Arch, MBA
Phillip J. Greene, M.Arch, MBA
I am a retired architect with 45 years of experience designing a wide variety of building types. My client list includes many large companies, including Busch Entertainment Corporation, and Universal Studios, as well as the Army Corps of Engineers and the University of Illinois. I have a keen interest in wild life, conservation and the preservation of our environment. I first became interested in energy conservation during the first energy crisis in 1973.
My interest in recycling was born in the 1940s during World War II when everyone recycled everything from rendered fat from cooking to scrap metal. I have memories of huge piles of scrap metal of all kinds on a vacant lot. My family had a large Victory Garden on a vacant lot, where we grew many kinds of vegetables and I was the designated gardener. Everything was rationed and required stamps to purchase. Rationing included gasoline, tires, shoes, canned food, meat, and butter. This was good training.
I was moved to write this book because of the lack of leadership and action by the past four Federal Administrations to break the stranglehold of a few oil producing countries, large oil companies and auto manufacturers on our supplies of energy and our very way of life.
A search of information in books and on the Internet revealed that there was no single book that explained what was happening today in the field of energy in a clear, understandable way, and how the energy crisis came to be. There were too many conflicting voices from those with some axe to grind, either political or financial, making it very difficult to get to the truth. I felt compelled to try to answer the questions concerning our energy supply, and look at what the future might bring. The book also looks at how everyone can save energy and money, avoid global warming, and help us to ease our way into a future with a dwindling supply of fossil fuels.
