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

Name: Earth the Sequel The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
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ISBN: 9780393066906

ISBN-10: 0393066908

ISBN-13: 9780393066906

Edition: 2008

Authors: Fred Krupp, Miriam Horn

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.60" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

In his twenty-three years as president of Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp has been the foremost champion of harnessing market forces for environmental ends. He lives in Connecticut.

Miriam Horn has written for Vanity Fair and the New York Times. She lives in New York City.




A New Industrial Revolution



Harnessing the Sun, Part I



Harnessing the Sun, Part II



Fuels from Living Creatures



New Sources of Biofuels



Ocean Energy



Power from the Earth



Reconsidering Coal



Today's Solutions



A World of Possibility


Acknowledgments


Resources


Index