Eco barons

From Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Humes comes Eco Barons, the story of the remarkable visionaries who have quietly dedicated their lives and their fortunes to saving the planet from ecological destruction.While many people remain paralyzed by the scope of Earth's environmental woes, eco barons — a new and largely unheralded generation of Rockefellers and Carnegies — are having spectacular success saving forests and wildlands, pulling endangered species back from the brink, and pioneering the clean and green technologies needed if life and civilization are to endure.A groundbreaking account…