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

Author: Miriam Horn, Fred Krupp

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/28/2008


Synopsis

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.

About Miriam Horn

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nat on June 22, 2008

I'm about half way through the book. It's encouraging that there are so many 'capitalists' out there who are trying to help us through the energy crisis - global warming debacle. If only there weren't so many already established who are threatened by anything other than more oil, more oil, and still......more

Goodreads review by Randy on April 15, 2008

Really more of a "pamphlet" than a book - this only has value if you read it very near the publication date. I suspect that virtually everything in it will be completely out of date within months. Nevertheless, it's well organized and presented. If you're interested in the business opportunities arou......more

Goodreads review by Bill on April 07, 2013

Harnessing the Sun - Part I - a 100 mile square could supply U.S. electrical needs - in 2007, PV was 6.6 GW worldwide - in 2007, PV cost $4 /w or $7 /w installed - currently, PV in Las Vegas is 11 cents/kwhr, competitive with the utility - when the price drops to $1 /w, it is competitive with coal - Sharp......more

Goodreads review by Alex on January 02, 2024

Earth: The Sequel - The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming by Fred Krupp. 3/5 rating. Book #136 of 2019. Read November 30, 2019. This book delves into a vast array of technologies that are being developed to combat global warming.Though I thought this was somewhat interesting, it got too......more

Goodreads review by John on March 19, 2025

This book was published in 2008, and I read it in 2025. Since it is a book about evolving technologies to address Climate Change, it is seriously out of date. The technologies were quite interesting, although sometimes hard to understand, but I don't think it is necessary to understand everything. T......more