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Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming | 
 enlarge | Authors: Fred Krupp, Miriam Horn
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Product Description
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.
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 Double Spaced Very Useful Tour of the Energy Horizon May 3, 2008
Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States)
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
I like this book and recommend it for students of any age from high school to the geriatric crowd that I represent. It has a super index but no mention of Lester Brown or Herman Daly, but that is offset by back cover recomendations from E. O. Wilson, Mark Lewis, and Michael Bloomberg.
Highlights from my fly leaf notes:
+ 1977 Clean Air was a command and control one size fits all that did not pass the market test
+ Lead author and others with the Environmental Defense Fund were instrumental in getting the 1990 Clear Air Act passed.
+ Making clean air a commodity makes the environment a profit center
+ Although there is no mention of Paul Hawkin's "true cost" meme, Hawkins does get listed in the index twice, see his Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World; the author mentions the urgency of accounting for the cost of pollution.
+ USA must cut its emissions by 80%
+ The author is fully aware that Acts of God are in fact Acts of Man. Another book, I cannot remember which, tells us that changes to the planet that used to take 10,000 years now take three. Not only do we need real time science, but we also need The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal
+ Clean energy is described by one sources as "the mother of all markets."
+ The author considers the energy markets to be completely "rigged" and notes that grain based ethanol, which I have called idiocy on more than one occasion, exists because of lobbying from Archer Daniels Midland among others.
+ In 2005 solar power grew by 45%.
+ Solar is distributed power, storage is a major obstacle.
+ The author clearly excited by Silicon Valley nano-tech, and also cautious about what we do not know when it is destabilized.
+ The solar energy industry is shooting for the Home Depot marketplace, stuff so simple I could install it. The author also tells us that banks are starting to get into power purchase agreements that will finance clean energy the way a home or car might be mortgaged. Home depot level will also mean graceful degradation and no "crash" or energy equivalent of Bill Gate's "blue screen of death".
+ Concentrating the sun is another promising approach. The author tells us that solar energy is six times more land efficient than wind energy.
+ Cuba is sitting on a sugar cane gold mine, biofuels with zero emissions are on the way from sugar modification.
+ Algae is covered, as well as bacteria.
+ Ocean power is also making headway, and is consistent, predictable, and has a high energy density.
+ Earth thermal includes hot water that comes with oil, previously considered a nusiance.
+ Coal is getting a make-over, and biomimicry is helping. It must get a make-over because it is an essential part of the mid-term power solution.
+ Sequestration is working and will work long enough to matter.
+ Regenerative reserves (e.g. the Amazon) are an essential part of the future. More more on this see the lovely and informative Climate Change and Biodiversity
+ Manure is turning into a major league energy source (when it's not contaminating our spinach, there is a whole land under surface water use deal here that we just do not understand.
+ Energy efficiency, hybrid cars, and smarter land use (compacting towns and cities to increase efficiency of public transportation) are part of the solution.
+ All parties will spend $10 trillion over the next thirty years to achieve clean energy.
See Other books I recommend:
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Third Edition
Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications
The Future of Life
The Mighty Acts of God
The Republican War on Science
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Green Chemistry and the Ten Commandments of Sustainability, 2nd ed
This is a fine book. See also the WIRED Magazine Cover Story from 2000, it came out the same month Dick Cheney was meeting secretly with Enron and Exxon executives.
Stop Global Warming. Grow Our Economy. March 4, 2008
Samuel Parry (Arlington, VA USA)
74 out of 76 found this review helpful
This book is a must read for everyone interested in the possibilities of our clean energy future and the necessity of stopping global warming.
We have been stuck in a national debate between the doomsayers who warn of the serious threats of global warming and the naysayers who deny global warming is real and are blocking national action.
This book resets the conversation. There is a world of possibility ready to explode with smart national policies that reward low-carbon energy innovation. It's up to us to take this message of hope to decision makers in Washington to pass smart national policy to unleash the innovators.
Absolute must read on the future of national energy policy and solutions.
Earth: The Sequel: The Race April 6, 2008
Stephen Balbach (Ashton, MD United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I don't know what it is about book sub-titles these days but they all have them, and this one generously has *two*, "The Sequel" and the common "The Race To.." (at least it's not "..That Changed the World"). I very often avoid books with these sub-titles because I know exactly what to expect: a long magazine article that would have been better in a magazine and not as a book. However in this case I took the chance because one of the co-authors is Fred Krupp, President of the influential Environmental Defense Fund, and the publisher is W.W. Norton. Even though it is indeed written like a magazine article (very skillfully I assume mostly by Miriam Horn) with lots of human interest stories and non-fiction narrative techniques, the content is well worth it.
Essentially it is a survey of the current technologies, companies and people involved with alternative energy in the United States. Even though I follow this stuff in the news and blogs there was tons of new stuff here I never knew about. Some of the people involved are really fascinating. Some of the companies are much further along than I realized. Others are probably not the solutions I thought they may be. My copy is marked up with people and companies to watch.
If the book has a message it is this: free markets work, but only if there is a cap and trade system to adjust the cost of fossil fuels upward, so that alternative technologies have a chance to develop and compete. If there is no cost to pollute, than obviously clean technologies are at a disadvantage. This has to change, and soon.
A Must Read! March 14, 2008
Josh Goren (New York)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
Writer Miriam Horn could make a common shopping list engaging and enlightening. We are all lucky that she has not squandered her talent on shopping lists, but has, along with Fred Krupp, written an informative and fascinating account of the exciting work being done to save us from our own excesses. The stories in the book will make you reconsider the dark idea that perhaps the human race is getting what it deserves. This is a vitally important book to buy and a total pleasure to read.
A breath of fresh air to a depressing subject May 4, 2008
R. Watts (Lewisville, TX USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
At last, a book on possible solutions to the greenhouse effect caused by our dependence on carbon-based fuels. In this book are numerous methods of creating energy without a carbon footprint, methods that are in progress and in use all over the globe. Instead of the usual depressing "we are such bad people and we use so much energy and deserve to die" attitude we see in Global Warming books, this book actually supplies a view of what progress is being made in the race to achieve carbon-free energy. Only the enormous political power of Big Oil and the Automotive Industry are keeping us headed down the path of climatical disaster, but if the citizens of the world band together to move in a different direction, there are alternatives out there. Now if only people actually cared...
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