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An optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything.

Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith’s plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future.

Griffith, an engineer and inventor, calls for grid neutrality, ensuring that households, businesses, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world, mobilize industry as we did in World War II, and offer low-interest “climate loans.” Griffith’s plan doesn’t rely on big, not-yet-invented innovations, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses—but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis, there is no other project that would create as many jobs—up to twenty-five million, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else.

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Silver Medalist in Business Intelligence/Innovation, 2022 Axiom Business Book Awards

"One of the most quietly revolutionary policy books I’ve ever read."—Derek Thompson, The Atlantiic

“I don’t think anyone else has quite so credibly laid out a realistic plan for swift action in the face of an existential crisis.”
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"... the book demands attention."
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"Surprisingly optimistic, realistic, and persuasive."
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"It’s very clear, it’s very practical, it’s very possiblist."
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Saul Griffith, inventor, entrepreneur, and engineer, is founder of Rewiring America, a nonprofit dedicated to decarbonizing America by electrifying everything, and founder and chief scientist at Otherlab. He was a recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant” in 2007.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 4, 2022
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262545047
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262545044
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.72 x 9 inches

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Customers find the book well-researched and informative, with one review describing it as an outstanding source of data. Moreover, they appreciate its idealism, with one customer noting it provides frequently feasible ideas for solving the energy/climate crisis. Additionally, the book receives positive feedback for its readability, ease of use, and writing quality, with one customer highlighting its concise style.

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Customers find the book well-researched and fascinating, with one customer noting it serves as an outstanding source of data.

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"One of the best books i have read in quite awhile. In a fact based (and interesting) manner outlines where the world stands in terms of energy use,..." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's idealism, with one customer describing it as an inspiring moonshot for humanity to solve climate change, while another notes it provides frequently feasible ideas for addressing the energy and climate crisis.

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"...overwhelmed by climate doom, this book will provide a refreshing dose of optimism and actionable steps you can take to help secure a sustainable and..." Read more

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Customers find the book readable and important, with one customer noting it is required reading for anyone interested in clean energy.

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Howard Hoffman
Excellent book, one major flaw
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2023
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This book is an outstanding source of data on the #1 key to solving climate change, eliminating most uses of fossil fuels. The author's proposed solutions are generally exactly what we need: electrify everything. That means we need to convert to electric vehicles (already happening but not fast enough) and electric heating (with heat pumps, for both buildings and for hot water). As an "Optimist's Playbook for our Clean Energy Future", Saul Griffith correctly asserts that we already have the technology to make the transition away from fossil fuels and that we will ultimately save money, as a country, doing so. The Appendixes in the book contain lots of excellent additional information that Griffith thought was too technical to be included in the body of the book. He wryly calls the Appendixes "Rabbit Holes". In one of the Appendixes he addresses Carbon Taxes, something he dismisses in Chapter 1 with "it's too late for carbon taxes". That is what I consider the major flaw to the book. Griffith dismisses the politics of solving climate change in the US. Well, a carbon tax in the form of Carbon Fee and Dividend, as has been proposed by the Citizens' Climate Lobby and some other groups (and has been introduced as legislation in the US House of Representatives) would be the politically feasible way to accomplish everything that Griffith has proposed. The US cannot give out enough subsidies as was in President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act to solve the problem. Regulation could solve the problem, but given the political realities in the US, regulation would take too long and given US politics, there would be endless struggles over the details. Carbon Fee and Dividend would be a huge boost to most of the country and is the most important first step to getting greater electrification of everything.

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A practical guide on what you can actually do to save the world.
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2024
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I have been a professional in the energy efficiency industry for multiple decades and reading this book I felt like it was exactly what I've been trying to tell everyone. Its as if I wrote the book myself, but with more cohesive points, better writing skills, and much better research. This book will teach you why electrification is important, and how its very doable on both the individual and global level. There is a lot of misinformation and nay-sayers out there. This book does the research to shut that all down.

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Michael Falls
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Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2022
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Electrify is filled with excellent, workable and frequently feasible ideas for solving the energy/climate crisis. The book should be read and applied by those concerned and engaged in the problem, which is pretty much all of us.
BUT, regardless of how much the author glosses over or ignores many realities, there is a lot of "pie in the sky" here. Some political realities will not be overcome, further, as I read the book I became somewhat unconvinced of the possibilities, not just politically, but physically. I particularly question how soon we can actually electrify all cars, among other solutions presented, without far more heavy disruptions than Griffith allows for.
If there is one biggest issue that presents itself here, and in all discussion of climate change, and I'm a believer saying this, it is that a large percentage of the public, perhaps a majority, doesn't believe in how serious the issue is, and for that many are to blame for not explaining it in a lucid, cogent manner, and simply disregarding their lack of understanding. Griffith, and others like him have a ways to go to pull that off, and if you read this work, you'll likely see why.

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Required Reading for Anyone Looking to Understand Real World Solutions
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2023
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Saul Griffith has crafted an entirely readable and incredibly well researched ( and documented ) book that makes a compelling case for the need to electrify everything now. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by climate doom, this book will provide a refreshing dose of optimism and actionable steps you can take to help secure a sustainable and just future for everyone. Highly recommend.

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Robin Norton
Optimistic Future
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One of the best books i have read in quite awhile. In a fact based (and interesting) manner outlines where the world stands in terms of energy use, and what we can do about it. We CAN solve climate change and make our world significantly better. I like that it goes from world level statistics to what I can do today... right now.

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Jon C. Cline
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Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2024
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The book provides a thorough and informative description of a path to clean energy future.
The vision presented by the author as a potential path to that possible future is thought provoking snd inspiring.
I look forward to sharing the recommendation.

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This book was recommended to me, and after reading, I purchased 3 more and gave them as gifts. Very enjoyable read, fascinating information, and good plan laid out to reduce utility bills and carbons by shifting to electrifying, well everything!

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Stephen Perry
Buy it, read it, do it…
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 13, 2025
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Comprehensive and easy to read (except some of green diagrams). Concentrates on the stuff that matters to the man on the Clapham Omnibus…

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Essential Reading!
Reviewed in Australia on January 13, 2023
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We all need to know what we must do to address global pollution & warming to provide a healthy habitat for all current and future life on our planet. So much to do and it needs to be done quickly!
A must read for everyone ... so that we can all do good things within our capacity to do so.
Unfortunately, it is very United States of America oriented, but everyone and every political jurisdiction and locality on the planet needs to apply the thinking to their location and take action as soon as possible.
A bit technical in parts, but he is providing information for economists, business leaders, political leaders, as well as the general public (like me) who can get the gist of what he is saying and start taking action now.

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Peter Beurle
Interesting Plan
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An interesting read and reflection of the path we are on. It seems well researched and the author mostly avoids politics of this topic. I am not sure the WWII benchmarks are applicable, this about leadership rather than defence. As China, India and many others are not committed the benefit would be cheaper energy and we don't need subsidised loans to get us there. In my experience these transition are unstoppable once they get going and electrification is definitely under way.

There is a lot of images of graphs and sankey diagrams that are mostly unreadable on the electronic version. Maybe the publisher made the images low res to avoid amazon charges?

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Peter Wang
would have given it 5
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But then I realised what's good for America is not good for the world. Oops.

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