Saul is a wonderful speaker and advocate for the Electrify Everything movement. You can listen to the book for free here The Big Switch Audio Edition and you can see a presentation by Saul (not about the book) at the latest Community Energy Congress
What do you think? Is this a good one for the Bookclub?
here are some review’s and interviews about the quarterly essay. One of the great things about a quarterly essay is that it comes with thoughtful comments (the book club thing starting before you’ve even read it)
Saul Griffith’s Wires that Bind | Me fail? I fly! this review picks up on Christine Milne’s critique and has a good link to a radio interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_38FMqp-ixE
I like the review you linked to. It was a thoughtful analysis that helped pull the essay together for me and reaffirmed what I like about Saul’s perspective: the evidence and analysis is there to show that the transition is eminently doable, at least on a logistics and economical basis. But although providing hope and giving foundation for actions, logistics will need a bit of help to ensure things happen when the system also needs to accommodate some change (if not yet wholesale change) and there are people in the system who will lose a privileged position.
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