Please join us at Powell's at Cedar Hills Crossing for talking about the second half (last 5 chapters) of the book:

"Earth: The Sequel" by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn will be our book for the June book club meeting (location info below). Fred Krupp is the head of Environmental Defense. Miriam Horn is an author for US News and World Report. We will probably take two months to go through the book, so the first half (first 5 chapters) will be the discussion portion for our June meeting.
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Lisa, one of our WCPO members, says "The book is reputedly full of promising technologies for new sources of energy and new businesses that will flow from those technologies. It is purported to be positive and hopeful and, while aimed at solving the global warming issue, it is equally applicable to peak oil since the new technologies would be not reliant on fossil fuels. I read a review today on the Internet that made the book sound very promising."

According to Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City:

"Krupp and Horn have turned the doom and gloom of global warming on its head. Earth: The Sequel makes it crystal clear that we can build a low-carbon economy while unleashing American entrepreneurs to save the planet, putting optimism back into the environmental story.

Why “the sequel”?
Earth: The Sequel is the riveting story of the next new thing that none of us can afford to miss: how the multi-trillion dollar energy sector is being transformed — right now — by the American entrepreneurial spirit.
Who is in the race?
A bioengineer redesigning viruses so that they assemble themselves into the most powerful batteries ever seen. more...
A neurobiologist devising a filter to clean smokestack gases at coal plants using the same enzyme that removes carbon dioxide from the human bloodstream. more...

Publisher Comments:
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.