Dr. Moore’s message is based on personal experience—as a member of a family that has been logging on northern Vancouver Island for four generations, as an activist pioneer and as a popular international lecturer on sustainability.
Dr. Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international environmental field for more than 40 years. He is a co-founder of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. As the leader of many campaigns, Dr. Moore was a driving force shaping policy and direction while Greenpeace became the world’s largest environmental activist organization.
In recent years, Dr. Moore has been focused on the promotion of sustainability and consensus building among competing concerns. He was a member of British Columbia government-appointed Round Table on the Environment and Economy from 1990 – 1994. In 1990, Dr. Moore founded and chaired the BC Carbon Project, a group that worked to develop a common understanding of climate change.
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This renowned environmental visionary poses many critical questions in this new, revised 10th anniversary edition, including how we tackle the following important social and environmental problems of the 21st Century:
* Carbon capture and storage?
* Green building?
* Wildlife habitat?
* Renewable biofuel energy?
* Clean air and water?
* Printing, packaging and sanitation?
* Fertile soils?
* A beautiful green earth?
With straightforward logic based on facts and science, Dr. Patrick Moore gives us new eyes with which to see the land, exploring the beauty, biodiversity and spirit of forests growing back after logging.
Through clear words and pictures, this lifelong environmentalist, a co-founder and long-time leader of Greenpeace, demonstrates that we should be planting more trees and using more renewable wood —not less —in order to reduce our reliance on non-renewable fuels and materials.
Dr. Moore’s message is based on personal experience—as a member of a family that has been logging on northern Vancouver Island for four generations, as an activist pioneer and as a popular international lecturer on sustainability.
This renowned environmental visionary poses many critical questions in this new, revised 10th anniversary edition, including how we tackle the following important social and environmental problems of the 21st Century:
* Carbon capture and storage?
* Green building?
* Wildlife habitat?
* Renewable biofuel energy?
* Clean air and water?
* Printing, packaging and sanitation?
* Fertile soils?
* A beautiful green earth?
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