The Brown Agenda: My Mission to Clean Up the World's Most Life-Threatening Pollution
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (913 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1595800832 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Greening a brown agenda" according to Miguel Madrid. First of all I must thank Sandra Gualtero for giving me the opportunity to know better about Pure Earth’s mission to identify and clean up toxic sites affecting the poorest communities around the world. And that mission has a story behind. A story that started in the life of Richard Fuller which initial purpose was nothing else than protecting the Amazon forest. But the course changed and Richard ended up in the i. Ross Guberman said A great book about needed work being done in these places. I really found Richard's story engrossing, wandering the amazon with him and seeing all the things around him take shape leading up to Blacksmith. A great book about needed work being done in these places otherwise ignored.. Elizabeth JG Levine said It can be a fantastic formula to really make a tremendous mpact on places. If Elon Musk meld with Indiana Jones, Richard Fuller's visionary creativity, grit and achievements would have been far more predictable, but no less remarkable. The Brown Agenda shares the story of what can happen when brains, boredom and bureacracy come together. It can be a fantastic formula to really make a tremendous mpact on places in the world that few may care about, but what can be done should the right person c
There are few more important stories than how we humans foul the planet and ourselves, often heedlessly. An extraordinary man, tackling pollution one of the world’s biggest problems head on.”Hon Nereus Acosta, Presidential Advisor for the Environment, Office of the President, Government of the Philippines.The Brown Agenda changes the frameworkalways the way to have the biggest impact. A heroic tale indeed!”Rajat Nag, Managing Director General, Asian Development Bank, 19882013Rich Fuller’s passion and commitment towards educating people on the under-repor
One in seven people in low- and middle-income countries die as a result of it. Pollution is the single largest cause of death in the developing world. Brown sites poison millions of people every year, causing needless suffering and death.After witnessing several brown sites firsthand and meeting families trapped by poverty in these toxic hot spots, environmentalist Richard Fuller founded the Blacksmith Institute, now renamed Pure Earth, a global nonprofit that initiates large-scale cleanups of some of the most polluted places on earth.The Brown Agenda details Fuller’s inspirational journeyfrom his dangerous yet ultimately successful fight to save hundreds of thousands of acres in the rain forest to his creation of Pure Earth.In this vivid account of his perilous travels to the ea