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Editorial Reviews
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This generally admiring portrait of the Nature Conservancy, the organization that preserves genetic material and uniquely functioning ecological systems, emphasizes the inner workings of the organization, focusing on nine personalities within its ranks. Journalist Birchard outlines the history of the group from its birth pangs in 1950 to the 2003 natural-gas scandal that led to a series of stories in the Washington Post. Most of the profiles are of upper management, including ecologist Robert Jenkins, who changed the conservancy's directive to a qualitative, rather than a quantitative approach; president Patrick Noonan, who made corporate America an environmental partner; and Gregory Low, who encouraged the organization to work on "landscape-scale" operations. The narrative isn't entirely linear, as many of those profiled overlapped in service; manager John Sawhill, for example, is profiled in two separate places within the book. Ultimately, Birchard, by combining interviews, meeting minutes, speech transcripts, and reports, does a remarkable job of providing a coherent picture of "the largest environmental organization in the world." Rebecca Maksel
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"Nature’s Keepers is a remarkable book about a remarkable organization—and a ripping yarn about groups and people who make a difference against all odds. Beyond that, it is a matchless tale of a half century of organizational growth and renewal—replete with missteps and subsequent vaults upward. Told as a series of nine fast-paced sagas of extraordinary leaders, it holds lessons of the utmost importance for every variety of reader."
--Tom Peters
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This generally admiring portrait of the Nature Conservancy, the organization that preserves genetic material and uniquely functioning ecological systems, emphasizes the inner workings of the organization, focusing on nine personalities within its ranks. Journalist Birchard outlines the history of the group from its birth pangs in 1950 to the 2003 natural-gas scandal that led to a series of stories in the Washington Post. Most of the profiles are of upper management, including ecologist Robert Jenkins, who changed the conservancy's directive to a qualitative, rather than a quantitative approach; president Patrick Noonan, who made corporate America an environmental partner; and Gregory Low, who encouraged the organization to work on "landscape-scale" operations. The narrative isn't entirely linear, as many of those profiled overlapped in service; manager John Sawhill, for example, is profiled in two separate places within the book. Ultimately, Birchard, by combining interviews, meeting minutes, speech transcripts, and reports, does a remarkable job of providing a coherent picture of "the largest environmental organization in the world." Rebecca Maksel
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Review
"Nature’s Keepers is a remarkable book about a remarkable organization—and a ripping yarn about groups and people who make a difference against all odds. Beyond that, it is a matchless tale of a half century of organizational growth and renewal—replete with missteps and subsequent vaults upward. Told as a series of nine fast-paced sagas of extraordinary leaders, it holds lessons of the utmost importance for every variety of reader."
--Tom Peters
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