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\| May/June 2008 The Future of Energy: A Special Report It's going to take a lot more than changing lightbulbs to get us on the path to sustainability. We investigate the options (solar? nuclear? cow poop?), what's hype, what's really happening, and who's standing in the way of change. Illustration by Koren Shadmi
FEATURES CRUDE AWAKENING The Seven Myths Of Energy Independence By Paul Roberts Kicking our foreign-oil habit may sound like a good idea, but it's nothing more than a pipe dream. POWER BROKERS Put a Tyrant in Your Tank By Joshua Kurlantzick The new kings of crude are even bigger (and badder) than Big Oil. The Greenback Effect By Bill McKibben Markets can help us fight global warming—if we teach them how. THE TRANSFORMERS Sol Man By Jon Mooallem The founder of Match.com wants to hook Americans up with solar. Breaking The Gridlock By Jennifer Kahn The Smart Grid could fix one of the biggest obstacles to energy efficiency—us. It Keeps Going and Going... By Britt Robson Batteries were born before Christ. So why haven't we gotten them right yet? Rural Renewal By Jennifer Vogel These small towns were dying. Then alternative power reenergized them. THE N-WORD The Nuclear Option By Judith Lewis Is it time to reconsider atomic energy? FRONTIER OIL Tar Wars By Josh Harkinson Scenes from Canada's Wild West, where oil fever extracts a heavy toll. THE RESISTERS Scrubbing King Coal By James Ridgeway Power companies say they're cleaning up their act when really they're just cleaning up their image. Fossil Fools By Chris Mooney Who stands between us and a clean-energy future? These guys.	As a public service, Mother Jones, which is a nonprofit magazine, will release the full contents of this issue online over the next several weeks. If you'd like your Mother Jones sooner—and you want to support independent investigative journalism—please subscribe now.
	DEPARTMENTS Editors' Note Masthead Contributors Backtalk OUTFRONT The Iraqi exile who could foil Bush's plans for permanent bases; fluoride bites back; a refugee couple's happy ending; HIV's morning-after pill; wizards for Ron Paul; KBR answers to no one; energy iconoclast James Woolsey; squatters take over foreclosed homes. EXHIBIT 8 Lbs, 21 Inches, 3,800 Diapers, and 1,525 Tons of Carbon By Kiera Butler and Dave Gilson Little feet sure do pitter-patter, all right. All over the planet. WITNESS Constant Sorrow By Bernice Yeung It wasn't Toto Constant's human rights violations in Haiti that finally landed him in prison. It was mortgage fraud in Long Island. PRACTICAL VALUES Inn Excess By Kimberly Lisagor Why are hotels' environmental values on permanent vacation? MEDIA JONES Debra J. Dickerson on how the Moral Majority fudged its numbers; filmmaker Errol Morris sees through Abu Ghraib; the return of Susan Meiselas' Kurdistan; plus more book(Opting In, Leisureville: Advertures in America's Reitrement Utopias, Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids), film, and music(Mr. Love & Justice, Pershing, Warchild, Stronger) reviews P.S. Just say "faux" to drugs. Illustration by John Cuneo