Volume 1: Acid Rain-Energy Independence And Security Act Of 2007 -- Publisher's note -- About the editor -- Introduction -- Topic finder -- List of Contributors -- A: -- Acid rain -- Advertising and marketing -- Afghanistan -- Agricultural revolution -- Agricultural wastes -- Agriculture -- Air conditioning -- Air pollution -- Alabama -- Alaska -- Albania -- Alberta -- Algeria -- Alternative energy -- Ampere, Andre-Marie -- Anaerobic digestion -- Andorra -- Angola -- Antarctica -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Appliance standards -- Appliances -- Aramco -- Archimedes -- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- Arctic Ocean -- Argentina -- Arizona -- Arkansas -- Armenia -- Australia -- Austria -- Automobiles -- Aviation -- Azerbaijan -- B: -- Bahamas -- Bahrain -- Bangladesh -- Barbados -- Batteries as an energy source -- Battery disposal -- Belarus -- Belgium -- Belize -- Benin -- Berlin mandate -- Bernoulli, Daniel -- Best management practices -- Bhutan -- Bicycles -- Biodiesel -- Biogas digester -- Biomass energy -- Black, Joseph -- Boilers -- Bolivia -- Bonneville power administration -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Botswana -- BP -- Brazil -- Brunei -- Building envelope -- Buildings -- Bulgaria -- Bureau of Reclamation, US -- Burkina Faso -- Burundi -- C: -- CAFE standards -- California -- Cambodia -- Cameroon -- Canada -- Capacity -- Cape Verde -- Carbon emissions factors -- Carbon footprint and neutrality -- Carbon sequestration -- Carbon tax -- Carbon trading and offsetting -- Carnot, Sadi -- Carrier, Willis -- Caspian Sea -- Central African Republic -- Chad -- Chernobyl -- Chile -- China -- China syndrome -- Chlorofluorocarbons -- Churchill, Winston -- Clausius, Rudolf -- Climate and weather -- Climate change -- Climate neutrality -- Coal -- Cogeneration -- Cold fusion -- Colombia -- Colorado -- Columbia River -- Communication -- Comoros -- Compact fluorescent lightbulbs -- Compressed air -- Compressed natural gas -- Computers -- Congo, Democratic Republic of the -- Congo, Republic of the -- Connecticut -- Conservation -- Cooperatives -- Costa Rica -- Cote d'Ivoire -- Croatia -- Cuba -- Curie, Marie -- Cushing trading hub -- Cyprus -- Czech republic -- D: -- Daylighting -- Delaware -- Demand-side management -- Denmark -- Department of Energy, US -- Deregulation -- Desaguliers, John Theophilus -- Diesel, Rudolf -- Dioxins -- District energy -- District of Columbia -- Djibouti -- Dominica -- Dominican Republic -- Dominy, Floyd E -- E: -- East Timor -- Ecuador -- Edison, Thomas Alva -- Egypt -- Einstein, Albert -- El Salvador -- Electric Grids -- Electric motors -- Electric vehicles -- Electricity -- Embodied Energy -- Emissions inventories -- Emissions trading -- Energy audit -- Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

This academic, multi-author reference work serves as a general and non-technical resource for students and teachers to understand the importance of energy; to appreciate the influence of energy on societies around the world; to learn the history of energy; and to initiate educational discussion brought forth by the specific social and topical articles presented in the work.