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by Rick Smolan, Jennifer Erwitt
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| Product Description |
Won "Most Likely to Save the Planet" at the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Due to the size and weight of this book special shipping charges are as follows. $5.00 per book.
We are facing a global water crisis. Over a billion people live without access to safe drinking water. Nearly two million children die every year from waterborne diseases. It has taken two billion years to fill the world’s underground reservoirs with water—yet today, these aquifers are being drained two to four times faster than nature can replenish them.
To call attention to this crisis, 20 participating runners from 13 countries began a race on June 1, 2007 at the United Nations, and spread out to on a 3-month odyssey circumnavigating the earth’s Northern Hemisphere, passing through 16 countries in 95 days. Events in cities and towns along the route marked the run’s arrival, educating residents about the water crisis and inspiring local action. And documenting the runners’ efforts, and the water crises they called attention to, were dozens of the world’s top photographers and writers, contributors to the new Earth Aware Editions title, Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World.
Created by Rick Smolan of the “A Day in the Life” series and his partner Jennifer Erwitt of Against All Odds Productions, Blue Planet Run provides an extraordinary look at the water problems we face—and the latest, most innovative and hopeful solutions being brought forward by companies large and small, by entrepreneurs and activists, and by NGOs and foundations. Showcasing some of today’s most creative environmental writers and thinkers, Blue Planet Run features 250 photographs and graphics, and written contributors from Dianne Ackermann, Bill McKibben, Dean Kamen and Paul Hawken among others.
100% of the royalties from this book will be used to provide clean water to the people around the world who desperately need it.
Rick Smolan created the monumental series “A Day in the Life” and in 2003 launched the bestselling America 24/7. Jennifer Erwitt is the co-founder of Against All Odds Productions, and co-director of critically acclaimed projects including Passage to Vietnam, 24 Hours in Cyberspace and One Digital Day.
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