Wordy Birds

Earth: The Sequel

(with Fred Krupp)

Original airdate: April 25, 2008

This is the book WRIR gave away during its Spring Pledge Drive. We were searching for something to fit our environmental Earth Day theme, when this book appeared for free out of the barren soil from courteous donors at the Environmental Defense Fund. We thank them for the harvest. 
 
Truthfully, it was tough to read, and I had to plough through it (yes, more punning). What I did like was that it clearly explained emerging technologies and offered places to plant your extra greenbacks, if you’re looking to grow rich through climate change. In the end, the book was worth the trees shorn.

This interview was discussed with me more than any other show I’ve done in the past year and from what “they” say, the show is a very good listen.
 
Here is the product description from Amazon.com…

“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 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 these pages the reader 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, for two thousand years fishermen in the roughest Pacific waters, 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.”
 
Hope you’re well.

Liz Humes

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