Energy Resource Library

Energy Resource Library

SDERC online libraryThe Energy Resource Library has two unique collections, the Reference Library and the Tool Library.

The Reference Library offers books, DVDs and periodicals on subjects that reflect CCSE’s five areas of focus; Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Green Building, Renewables, and Transportation. These materials cover a broad range of information on these topics and are designed for those in a variety of professions and levels of education and knowledge. The collection will appeal to professionals in the industry, laypersons who want to learn the basics, educators seeking to create awareness with their students and a section designed just for children and young adults.

Energy Resource Library

ACCESS THE ONLINE ENERGY RESOURCE LIBRARY

Search by subject, author, title, manufacturer or name. You can also reserve books, DVDs and Tools.

The Tool Library offers diagnostic tools that log data, monitor activity and provide instantaneous readings.  While the collection of tools focuses primarily on promoting energy efficiency, there are tools available for those interested in installing renewable energy. The tools vary in levels of complexity and user expertise.

Materials may be borrowed free of charge from 2-14 days, depending on the item. A Borrowing Agreement Form (BAF) (icon Borrowing Agreement Form (124.63 kB)) must be completed and faxed to Sarah Volpe at 858.244.1178 or scanned and emailed to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with a copy of the borrower's driver's license.

The completed BAF and a copy of the borrower's driver's license must be on file before placing holds or borrowing materials from the library.

Although fines are not collected, patrons will be restricted from using the library if items are continually returned overdue. Also, borrowers are responsible for any damage to or loss of materials.

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Get a Book

Cape Wind is a marvelous story of political hypocrisy on parade. When an energy entrepreneur proposed to build a wind farm to generate energy in Nantucket Sound, he did not bargain for the opposition of some of the rich and powerful who live and play in the vicinity.

Reserve or browse more books at the Online Energy Resource Library.

Get a DVD

It begins with a solemn funeral…for a car. By the end of Chris Paine's lively and informative documentary, the idea doesn't seem quite so strange.

Reserve it!


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"First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe… Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it..."

-- Henry David Thoreau (1834)