Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth

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Groundbreaking solutions to the climate crisis from scientists, engineers, civic leaders, entrepreneurs and activists, offering hope to all readers concerned about our planet’s future.
Offers practical actions that reflect technological and economic advances with an introduction by former United States senator Russ Feingold.
Solving the Climate Crisis is a hopeful and critical resource that makes a convincing and detailed case that there is a path forward to save our environment. Illustrating the power of committed individuals and the necessity for collaborative government and private-sector climate action, the book focuses on three essential areas:
The technological dimension: move to 100% clean renewable energy as fast as we possibly can through innovations like clean-steel, “green” cement, and carbon-reuse companies;
The ecological dimension: enhance and protect natural ecosystems, forests, and agricultural lands to safely store greenhouse gases and restore soils, transforming how we grow, process, and consume food;
The social dimension: update and create new laws, policies and economic measures to recenter human values and reduce environmental and social injustice.
Based on more than 6 years of research, Berger traveled the nation and abroad to interview governors, mayors, ranchers, scientists, engineers, business leaders, energy experts, and financiers as well as carbon farmers, solar and wind innovators, forest protectors, non-profit leaders, and activists.
With real world examples, an explanation of cutting-edge technologies in solar and wind, and political organizing tactics, Solving the Climate Crisis provides a practical road map for how we effectively combat climate change. Replacing the fossil-fuel system with a newly invigorated, modernized, clean-energy economy will produce tens of millions of new jobs and save trillions of dollars. Protecting the climate is thus potentially the greatest economic opportunity of our time.

From the Publisher

This book highlights people and organizations working on practical solutions to climate change.

Understanding our rising oceans

Two-thirds of the world’s cities are located on coasts and some are already flooding as oceans rise and as powerful storms drive torrents of water known as storm surges onto shores. By 2050, sea level could rise as much as five feet. Photo credit: @librarysparkle.

Creating low-emissions cement

San Antonio, Texas-based startup Solidia Technologies produces low-emissions cement that, coupled with CO2 mineralization during curing, reduces the global warming potential (GWP) of Solidia’s sustainable concrete products by 50% or more. Photo credit: Solidia Technologies.

Carbon ranching and our atmosphere

Researchers at Marin Carbon Project and their partners are working on agricultural techniques to increase the soil’s capacity to store carbon. If applied and supported globally, these approaches could take billions of metric tons of CO2 out of the world’s atmosphere. Photo credit: Stemple Creek Ranch/Marin Carbon Project.

Storing carbon in trees

In a forest community, trees—pillars of carbon—can hold the equivalent of up to 700 metric tons of carbon dioxide per acre in their trunks, roots, and branches. Protecting and growing trees is one of the least costly and safest ways of cleansing the atmosphere. Photo credit: @librarysparkle.

Designing energy efficient buildings

The Bullitt Center in Seattle, a six-story commercial office building that produces all its own energy via solar power and supplies its own water through rainwater harvesting. Photo credit: Nic Lehoux for the Bullitt Center.

Engineering electric transportation

The Eviation Alice, a nine-passenger all-electric commercial plane with a 250-nautical-mile range and a top speed of 300 miles per hour. Photo credit: Eviation Aircraft.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seven Stories Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 24, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1644213222
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1644213223
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.04 x 1.38 x 8.95 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,214,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #393 in Economic Policy #395 in Economic Policy & Development (Books) #435 in Climatology
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Customers find the book highly readable, with one mentioning it makes complex subjects easy to follow. The content receives positive feedback for being well-researched, with one customer noting it provides a frank and thorough assessment of the climate crisis.