基本信息·出版社：W. W. Norton ·页码：256 页 ·出版日期：2008年03月 ·ISBN：0393066908 ·条形码：9780393066906 ·装帧：精装 ·正文语种：英语 ...
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基本信息·出版社：W. W. Norton
·页码：256 页
·出版日期：2008年03月
·ISBN：0393066908
·条形码：9780393066906
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
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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 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.
作者简介 In his twenty-three years as president of Environmental Defense Fund, representing 500,000 members,
Fred Krupp has been the foremost champion of harnessing market forces for environmental ends.
Miriam Horn has written for
Vanity Fair and the
New York Times.
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly Environmental Defense Fund president Krupp and journalist Horn proffer a business-centric prescription for alleviating climate change, coupling the market force of capitalism with technological innovation and entrepreneurial inventiveness. The authors argue in favor of strict federal carbon caps, which would induce innovators to explore new ways to control carbon dioxide emissions. The book notes the global and historical successes of cap and trade mechanisms, such as the Clean Air Act of 1990. Designed specifically to control sulfur dioxide (which causes acid rain), the Clean Air Act cut emissions 30% more than the law required by providing coal plant operators with a financial incentive to modernize. New technologies that would benefit from such a logical, elegant, market-based approach include one as basic as an Arizona natural gas power plant that vents its smokestack waste into a vast greenhouse, where it nourishes algae used for manufacturing biodiesel, and one as a radical as harnessing the kinetic energy of molecules as a power source. This optimistic book brims with similar ideas, balancing jargon-heavy science with engaging profiles of individuals who are blending business and science in an attempt to save the planet.
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Harvard Business Review If you're worried that the world is heading toward climatic catastrophe, here's a book to lift your spirits.
