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    Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
    Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
    Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
    Audiobook9 hours

    Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

    Written by Miriam Horn and Fred Krupp

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe.

    The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of the Environmental Defense Fund, brings a stirring and hopeful call to arms: We can solve global warming. And in doing so we will build the new industries, jobs, and fortunes of the twenty-first century.

    In Earth: The Sequel, listeners will encounter the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it. Among them: a frontier impresario who keeps his ice hotel frozen all summer long with the energy of hot springs; a utility engineer who feeds smokestack gases from coal-fired plants to voracious algae, then turns them into fuel; and a tribe of Native Americans, fishermen in the roughest Pacific waters for 2,000 years, who are now harvesting the fierce power of the waves themselves.

    These entrepreneurs are poised to remake the world's biggest business and save the planet-if America's political leaders give them a fair chance to compete.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 28, 2008
    ISBN9781400177080
    Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

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    • 4/5
      An excellent survey of the clean-energy field as of the end of 2007. Krupp's definitely in the know regarding the financial and political aspects of these innovative solutions. Fascinating stories about the pioneers. An inspiring read.
    • 3/5
      Well written, detailed analysis of the future of clean energy. The author provides covers several technologies and provides more information than what I needed to know.
    • 4/5
      I don't know what it is about book sub-titles these days but they all have them, and this one generously has *two*, "The Sequel" and the common "The Race To.." (at least it's not "..That Changed the World"). I very often avoid books with these sub-titles because I know exactly what to expect: a long magazine article that would have been better in a magazine and not as a book. However in this case I took the chance because one of the co-authors is Fred Krupp, President of the influential Environmental Defense Fund. Even though it is indeed written like a magazine article (very skillfully I assume mostly by Miriam Horn) with lots of human interest stories and non-fiction narrative techniques, the content is well worth it.Essentially it is a survey of the current technologies, companies and people involved with alternative energy in the United States. Even though I follow this stuff in the news and blogs there was tons of new stuff here I never knew about. Some of the people involved are really fascinating. Some of the companies are much further along than I realized. Others are probably not the solutions I thought they may be. My copy is marked up with people and companies to watch.If the book has a re-curring message it is this: free markets work, but only if there is a cap and trade system to adjust the cost of fossil fuels upward, so that alternative technologies have a chance to develop and compete. If there is no cost to pollute, than obviously clean technologies are at a disadvantage. This has to change, and soon.