Co-presented with GRIST. The onetime "Muckraker" columnist at Seattle-based www.grist.org, and still a contributor there, Amanda Little visits with her timely new book, Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells—Our Ride to the Sustainable Future (HarperCollins). "In her ambitious and highly readable first book, environmental journalist Little explains how the United States became addicted to fossil fuel-based energy and how we can break this addiction ... She expertly ties together disparate strains of history to make her case ... The author sees a new energy consciousness emerging, most importantly at the grassroots level ... Evangelicals and atheists, billionaires and community activists, young and old, the author suggests, are reaching a consensus that America can and must become free of fossil fuel. Jargon-free and written with a fine eye for detail—one of the best books on America's energy crisis to emerge in recent years." - Kirkus Reviews.