In the Media
The Atlantic names
Cox its 2012 Readers' Choice "Brave Thinker"
A New York Times forum asks, "Should Air-Conditioning be Rationed?"
Cox in the Washington Post on “D.C. without A.C." (It's an idea weird enough to have inspired a screenplay.)
Brad Plumer, Washington
Post: a "fascinating"
book
New York magazine:
Where will a hot doomsday
strike first?
New York Times: “No
Air-Conditioning, and Happy“
An A/C
debate: the Diane Rehm Show on NPR
a "polemical plant
scientist" - The Economist
Kevin Canfield on Losing Our Cool
in the Los Angeles Times
More NY Times: Super-storm
Sandy & houses
destroying trees
Al Jazeera: Cold reality
Yale e360
and the Guardian:
Global Cooling
An interview with Ryan Brown of Salon.com
Cox's op-ed in the Los Angeles Times
The National Post, top of the
front page
David Owen in The New Yorker on “The
Efficiency
Dilemma” (sorry, subscription-only)
A review by
Mother Nature Network, which named Losing
Our Cool one of the “Ten must-read
environmental books of 1010″
see and hear:
An interview
with Cox on NPR’s Marketplace, and read tips
on
keeping cool
“Chilling Facts About Air
Conditioners“, a one-hour interview and
call-in on NPR's On Point
The
downside of A/C on NPR’s Here and Now
A KSN-TV
report, carried by the Weather Channel
On WNYC/NPR's The Brian Lehrer
Show, Thursdays
in July.
Losing Our Cool
interview: video on MSNBC
A CBC Radio interview
Macleans: How
Air-Conditioning Changed the World
Architect magazine:110th anniversary of "a boon and a burden"
Losing Our Cool with VICE magazine’s Motherboard.tv
More
from ABCNews.com,
Chicago
Tribune,
Economist,
Hartford
Courant,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
London’s Daily Mail, Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung,
FOX
Business,
and KWCH-TV
See Cox's presentation on America's air-conditioned dream, in pdf format, from the Gulf Coast Green conference in Houston, May 1, 2012.
The A/C dilemma in the Persian Gulf
Chicago Sun-Times (pdf): Mark Brown tries to convince his wife to turn off the A/C
Cox on the A/C life in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
More on keeping cool from Yes! magazine
Tom Condon on Losing Our Cool in the Hartford Courant
With National Geographic News Watch
Rob Sharp in The Independent (UK): Cold Comfort
Cox answers adversaries via CounterPunch
Marie Claire: Does this A/C make me look fat?
The Wichita Eagle on Losing Our Cool
The Foreign Policy Association blog
A review by the Dallas Morning News
An article on Losing Our Cool in the Boston Globe.
Q&A on A/C in the business world, in the New York Post
Jason Zasky talks with Cox: Failure magazine
KWCH-TV interview
A Minneapolis Star-Tribune interview
Glenn Beck doesn’t want to hear about turning off the A/C
Nevada shaped by fans of A/C: the Las Vegas Sun
TIME on the history of air-conditioning
An A/C Q&A with Discovery’s Planet Green
How to stay cool without A/C even in America’s hot zones
A CBC Radio interview
Stan Cox in the Hartford Courant: Air-Conditioning is Sapping Our Society
Paul Cox: “Birth of the Air Conditioner“
Read Chapter 1 of Losing Our Cool
Publisher’s Weekly reviews Losing Our Cool.
A review in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
A Globe and Mail interview on staying cool in Canada
An essay written by Stan Cox for Powell’s Books: “In Making Our Own Weather, Have We Remade Ourselves?”.
For the latest on air-conditioning - and rationing - visit
SliceIt.org
Now in paperback from The New Press

The word is out:
"Brave Thinker 2012"
– The Atlantic
One of the “10 must-read environmental books of
2010″
– Mother Nature Network
“Well-written, thoroughly researched, with a
truly global focus, the book offers much for
consumers, environmentalists, and policy makers to
consider before powering up to cool down.” – Publishers
Weekly
“This is an important book. The
history of air-conditioning is really the history of
the world’s energy and climate crises, and by
narrowing the focus Stan Cox makes the big picture
comprehensible. He also suggests remedies—which are
different from the ones favored by politicians,
environmentalists, and appliance manufacturers, not
least because they might actually work.” – David
Owen of The New Yorker
Also
from The
New Press Any
Way You Slice It: by
Stan Cox
|
More on Losing Our Cool:
“What I like about Cox’s book is that
he isn’t an eco-nag or moralist . . . I agree with
Cox when he says less climate control and more
contact with the real ecosphere will make for a
happier and healthier country.” — Tom Condon, Hartford
Courant
“Stan Cox, in his fascinating book, Losing Our Cool,
offers a long list of ways in which air conditioning
has transformed the U.S. economy.”
– Bradford Plumer, Washington Post
"There may be people who understand the big picture about air conditioning better than Stan Cox, but the list is surely a short one." – Richard Stuebi, founder, NextWave Energy
“A top pick for any library strong in
environmental science” – California Bookwatch
“Describing himself as neither an
ascetic or ‘econag,’ [Cox] examines energy
consumption trends and issues in economic, health,
and global contexts. Arguing that more efficient
air-conditioners are not the answer, he describes
more ecologically-sound cooling alternatives. The
treatment is serious despite the popsicles on the
cover.” – Sci-Tech Book News
“Cox challenges us to redefine our
personal comfort in the context of environmental
responsibility. He acknowledges that we have built a
world around air-conditioning, and he successfully
advocates controlling our indoor climate by using
both earlier cooling methods and new technologies.
Cox makes a strong case for cutting energy use,
redirecting our focus on cooling spaces to cooling
people, and restoring the balance between our indoor
and outdoor lives. Recommended for readers
interested in environmental issues and technologies”
– Library Journal
“Cox writes in simple, direct prose.
He spaces out statistics with anecdotes and fun
facts, making a potentially boring subject
interesting.” – Timothy Smith, Washington Post
“Those who have written extensively
about air conditioning — a small number of
scientists, historians and engineering experts —
agree with many of Cox’s conclusions.” – Kevin
Canfield, Los Angeles Times
“Cox’s book challenges the notion that
health and air conditioning go hand-in-hand, with a
look at sickness from indoor air, at the connection
between obesity and our indoor lives, and at the
malaise that Richard Louv called nature deficit
disorder in his 2005 book Last Child
in the Woods. But Cox’s main disturbing point
is that energy-intensive air conditioning creates a
vicious cycle in which more fossil fuel pollution
ratchets up temperatures even higher.” – Rob Sharp,
The Independent (UK)
“One wonders how sitting in his
90-degree home in Salina, Kansas, Cox was able to
gather so many mind-numbing facts and statistics
without losing his cool. But gather he did, and the
outcome is 255 pages full of facts, figures and
brief forays into the history and development of the
country, from Arizona to Detroit, from poor
neighborhoods to wealthy ones. The author dances
from hot environmental topics to well-known societal
changes, linking an overdependence on
energy-draining devices to the decrease in live
socializing.” – Sarah Berkowitz, Mother Nature
Network
“The author promises not to be
preachy, and keeps his word.” – Susan Ager,
Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Losing Our Cool is the kind
of book we’ve seen a lot of lately—like ‘Cod: A
Biography of the Fish that Changed the World’, or
‘Sugar: A Bittersweet History’—that ascribes
momentous consequences to otherwise mundane things.
In the case of air conditioning, it’s true: this
invention has changed how people live, determined
the population patterns of entire continents, and
affected everything from when we have babies to why
we feel so tired in the morning. It’s gone from
being a salvation, literally sparing lives, to a
possible health risk to an environmental demon
because it could alter the planet’s climate.” –
Cathy Gulli, Macleans
“I’ve been hearing a lot about this new book, ‘Losing Our Cool’, by Stan Cox . . . ’Losing Our Cool’, I gather from articles and interviews, is all about how air-conditioning is largely a blight, fueling the advance of civilization into the desert, atomizing inner-city communities, and even aiding the rise of big government. Cox is right on all these points.” – Jonah Goldberg, National Review