Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2008. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [10], 438 pages. Illustrations. Index. Signed by author. Thomas Loren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist and author. He has written extensively on foreign affairs including trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues. He has won the Pulitzer Prize three times. He joined The New York Times as a reporter in 1981 and dispatched to Beirut at the start of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. His coverage of the war won him the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Friedman served as the New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief from June 1984 until February 1988. That year he received a second Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He wrote From Beirut to Jerusalem, describing his experiences in the Middle East, which won the 1989 U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction. In 1994, he moved to the op-ed page of The New York Times. He later received a third Pulitzer Prize. Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy. A wag once quipped that Thomas Friedman's bountiful bestseller The World Is Flat calmed the storms about globalization. In his latest effort, the influential New York Times Op-Ed columnist presses his case that Green is the new Red, White, and Blue. Friedman argues that environmentalism isn't just a survival imperative; it's the best way to make America richer, more productive, and, not least, more secure. Spanning the globe, he presents case study after case study that shows that Green-oriented practices and technologies are the key to revitalizing our country and stabilizing an increasingly energy-starved world.