Amanda Little built a journalistic career decrying the pains and convulsions of our petrol-obsessed society, but it wasn’t until she embarked on a very personal quest did the story of oil become illuminated in human terms. Amanda tells TreeHugger Radio how, to write her first book, Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells–Our Ride to

the Renewable Future , she went inside the Pentagon and the Talladega Superspeedway, visited corn farmers and rode along with T. Boone Pickens, witnessed a boob job and landed on a Gulf Co… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Power Tripping Across America with Environmental Journalist Amanda Little