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Passions and Patience: Fostering Earth's Future Through Unlikely Partnerships

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Environmentalists are often passionate but seldom patient, so it's refreshing to find an environmental book written with a positive, upbeat attitude. After briefly stating that yes, the planet has been badly damaged by its human inhabitants, author Karen Roberts stops lamenting that fact and immediately begins describing some of the beneficial actions occurring around the world. Citing examples as familiar as Oregon and the Dakotas and as far-reaching as Nepal and Antarctica, the author takes readers on a world tour of earth-saving efforts by heroes of all kinds and representing very diverse cultures. Surprisingly, many of these crusaders are usually cast as villains on the environmental battlefield; here hunters, ranchers, developers -- even oil companies -- are working to protect the planet. As awareness of the fragility of our ecosystem grows, even some corporate and government hard-liners begin to realize the importance of concepts like alternate energy research, land trusts, public transportation, and slow-growth. This book delivers a message of hope and of encouragement that, with any luck, will be heeded by the planners, politicians, and power-brokers whose decisions and actions affect the quality of life on earth.

Passions And Patience: Fostering Earth's Future Through Unlikely Partnerships by environmental activist Karen Roberts and professional photographer Tim Hauf is dedicated to inspiring men and women to protect the planet, conserve neighboring wildlife, and renew hope in the cause of promoting and defending environmental improvement and protection issues. A collection of stories of unexpected partnerships such as that of the Shell Oil company with DaimlerBenz to produce hydrogen fuel in Iceland, and the collaboration between hunters and artists working together to save the ducks, Passions And Patience is a welcome and very highly recommended addition to personal, school, and library Environmental Issues reference collections and supplemental reading lists. Passions And Patience is also available in a hardcover edition.