Eco Barons: The New Heroes of Environmental Activism (published in hardcover as: Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet

ISBN: 0061350303

Author: Humes, Edward

Condition: New

Well written and compelling, Eco Barons gives the reader a first glimpse of the activists, philanthropists and gadflies who may well turn out to be the J.D. Rockefellers and Rachel Carsons of our time.-Cleveland Plain DealerPulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes offers readers an eye-opening look at the remarkable philanthropists and visionaries who are devoting their lives to saving the earth from overdevelopment and destruction. In Eco Barons, Humes, the bestselling author of Mississippi Mud and Monkey Girl, gives us fascinating portraits of extraordinary men and women who are dedicated to humankinds survival-as important a contribution to the environmental cause as Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth. As the New York Timespoints out, Humess urgent message is clear: We must all strive to become eco barons in our own right if we are to save Planet Earth.