Books

What’s an Eco Baron? It is sort of like a robber baron, only much better. Here’s how Ed Humes describes them: “In an era in which government has been either broke, indifferent or actively hostile to environmental causes, a band of visionaries — inventors, philanthropists, philosophers, grassroots activists, lawyers and gadflies — are using their wealth, their energy, their celebrity and their knowledge of law and science to persuade, and sometimes force, the United States and the world to take a new direction.”

Early in March, Thomas Friedman spoke to a sold out audience at Portland State University about his latest book, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America. He focused his lecture – which was really just an hour-long description of his book – on the big, broad theme of ‘the Energy-
Climate era’ in which we live.