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EARTH:THE SEQUEL GLOBAL WARMING FRED KRUP MIRIAM HORN AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BOOK
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Modified Item
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Subject
- Science & Technology
- Features
- Signed, 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780393066906
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393066908
ISBN-13
9780393066906
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63854925
Product Key Features
Book Title
Earth the Sequel : the Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Global Warming & Climate Change, Power Resources / Alternative & Renewable, Power Resources / General
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20.7 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-001317
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Instead of dwelling on the negative, the authors suggest that policy changes will allow businesses to halt global warming. . . . An upbeat, forward-looking assessment of what the future could bring." -- Newsday "An inspiring message of hope for individuals and a rousing call to action to political leaders worldwide." -- Booklist
Dewey Decimal
621.042
Synopsis
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., Krupp, longtime president of the Environmental Defense Fund, joins with co-author Horn to reveal how to harness the forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe., 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., 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.", 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.
LC Classification Number
TJ163.4.U6K78 2008
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