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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 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.

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"Highly informative.... A welcome contribution to an increasingly heated discussion.-- ""Los Angeles Times"" ""If you're worried that the world is heading toward climatic catastrophe, here's a book to lift your spirits."" -- ""Harvard Business Review"" ""This optimistic book brims with...ideas, balancing jargon-heavy science with engaging profiles of individuals who are blending business and science in an attempt to save the planet. -- ""Publishers Weekly"""

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Miriam Horn writes for U.S. News and World Report and is the author of Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with Hilary's Class-Wellesley '69. She has also written for Vanity Fair and the New York Times. She lives in New York City with her husband. In his twenty-three years as president of the Environmental Defense Fund, representing 500,000 members, Fred Krupp has been the foremost champion of harnessing market forces for environmental ends. Dick Hill, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, is one of the most awarded narrators in the business, having earned several Audie Awards and thirty-four AudioFile Earphones Awards. In addition to narrating, he has both acted in and written for the theater.

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