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The Next Eco-Warriors

22 Young Women and Men Who Are Saving the Planet

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Peter Hammarstedt and Benjamin Potts of Sea Shepherd fame and co-stars of television's Whale Wars. Enei Begaye, a Navajo/Diné activist bringing green jobs to the reservation. Rob Stewart, award-winning filmmaker of Sharkwater. Jamie Henn, co-founder of 350.org. Wen Bo, founder of China's Greenpeace. Tanya Fields, an urban farmer and poor people's activist in New York City. Meet the 21st century eco-activists who are devoting themselves to saving our planet.

The Next Eco-Warriors features the stories of 22 of these emerging leaders and their heroic work in a variety of green revolutions. Emily Hunter, daughter of Greenpeace co-founders Robert and Bobbi Hunter, introduces us to the feisty and diverse global community of young people who are tackling issues of energy use, overfishing, overconsumption, waste management, the disappearance of indigenous cultures and rainforest, and other urgent environmental/social concerns with a sense of passion and possibility. Together their message is clear: anyone can be an eco-warrior if they use their talents for change.

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      March 1, 2011
      Hannah Frasers resume lists her occupation as mermaid. Benjamin Potts says, eco-pirate. Whitney Black dons a SurvivaBall costume to go to work, while Wietse van der Werf is a bona fide Mischief Maker. Meet the new faces of eco-activism. Long gone are the homemade placards and rhyming chants shouted by protest-line picketers. In todays YouTube, 24/7-cable-news-channel world, messages have to be bold, dramaticand persuasive. As the daughter of the cofounders of Greenpeace, editor Hunter comes by ecological awareness naturally. She has gathered the stories of 22 individuals throughout the world who are as committed as she to saving the planet by whatever means possible, often at great personal risk. In organizations such as 350.org and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, these intrepid protectors of the earths most precious resources are working toward stopping such destructive practices as coal strip mining and rainforest destruction using new and innovative methods. Rousing, electrifying profiles in global environmental activism.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)

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