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The eco barons : the dreamers, schemers, and millionaires who are saving our planet
- Title
- The eco barons : the dreamers, schemers, and millionaires who are saving our planet / Edward Humes.
- Author
- Humes, Edward.
- Publication
- New York : Ecco, [2009], ©2009.
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- Description
- x, 367 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "From Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Humes comes Eco Barons, the story of the remarkable visionaries who have quietly dedicated their lives and their fortunes to saving the planet from ecological destruction." "While many people remain paralyzed by the scope of Earth's environmental woes, eco barons - a new and largely unheralded generation of Rockefellers and Carnegies - are having spectacular success saving forests and wildlands, pulling endangered species back from the brink, and pioneering the clean and green technologies needed if life and civilization are to endure." "A groundbreaking account that is both revealing and inspiring, Eco Barons tells of the former fashion magnate and founder of Esprit who has saved more rainforests than any other person and of the college professor who patented the "car that can save the world," the plug-in hybrid. There are the impoverished owl wranglers who founded the nation's most effective environmental group and forced a reluctant President George W. Bush to admit that humans cause global warming. And there is the former pool cleaner to Hollywood stars who became the guiding force behind a worldwide effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." "At a time when there is no shortage of dire news about the environment, Eco Barons offers a story of hope, redemption, and promise - proof that one person with determination and vision can make a difference."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Dreamers, schemers, and millionaires who are saving our planet
- Subjects
- Environmentalists > United States
- Environmentalists > United States > Biography
- Sea turtles > Conservation
- Nature conservation > Maine
- Cummings, Brendan R
- Polar bear > Conservation
- Siegel, Kassie
- Suckling, Kieran
- Nature conservation > Citizen participation
- Tompkins, Douglas
- Galvin, Peter
- Quimby, Roxanne, 1950-
- Frank, Andrew A (Andrew Alfonso)
- Tamminen, Terry
- Schwarzenegger, Arnold
- Allen, Carole H
- Turner, Ted
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Environmental protection > Citizen participation
- National parks and reserves > Maine
- Global warming
- Endangered ecosystems
- Endangered species
- Hybrid electric vehicles
- Conservationists > United States > Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Plan-Buy Low, Sell Never -- Pt. 1. Out of fashion -- 1. Reaching the Summit -- 2. The Empire Strikes Out -- 3. Lost and Found -- 4. Image and Reality -- Pt. 2. Of Hot Spots and Hooters -- 5. Thinking Like AIda -- 6. They Never Saw It Coming -- 7. The Polar Bear Express -- Pt. 3. Waiting for Thoreau -- 8. A Plum in the Wood Basket -- 9. Bees and Trees -- 10. Your Land Is My Land -- Pt. 4. Lone Wolves -- 11. Andy Frank and the Power of the Plug -- 12. Can a Malibu Pool Cleaner Savethe World? -- 13. The Turtle Lady -- 14. Wild Man -- Epilogue: Schemers and Dreamers -- Appendix. Some Resources.
- ISBN
- 9780061350290
- 006135029X
- LCCN
- 40016595426
- OCLC
- ocn232977855
- 232977855
- SCSB-5466265
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries