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Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities. Even with 60 percent of its country made of desert, Israel has not only solved its water problem; it also has an abundance of water. Israel even supplies water to its neighbors - the Palestinians and the Kingdom of Jordan - every day.
Based on meticulous research and hundreds of interviews, Let There Be Water reveals the methods and techniques of the often offbeat inventors who enabled Israel to lead the world in cutting-edge water technology. Let There Be Water also tells unknown stories of how cooperation on water systems can forge diplomatic ties and promote unity. Remarkably, not long ago, now-hostile Iran relied on Israel to manage its water systems, and access to Israel's water know-how helped to warm China's frosty relations with Israel.
Beautifully written, Let There Be Water is and inspiring account of the vision and sacrifice by a nation and people that have long made water security a top priority. Despite scant natural water resources, a rapidly growing population and economy, and often hostile neighbors, Israel has consistently jumped ahead of the water innovation curve to assure a dynamic, vital future for itself. Every town, every country, and every listener can benefit from learning what Israel did to overcome daunting challenges and transform itself from a parched land into a water superpower.
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- De: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from 10 years of putting the cradle-to-cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: We don't just reuse resources with greater effectiveness, we actually improve them as we use them.
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A "must read" for the environmental movement.
- De Love owls en 07-09-13
De: William McDonough, y otros
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The Vertical Farm
- Feeding the World in the 21st Century
- De: Dickson Despommier
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. The vertical farm has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These farms, grown inside skyscrapers, would provide solutions to many of the serious problems we currently face.
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Excellent Brainstorming - Not reality
- De Texas Community Project en 01-25-11
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Abundance
- The Future Is Better Than You Think
- De: Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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Space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years.
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Perhaps multiply his time estimates by 10
- De Rick en 11-06-21
De: Steven Kotler, y otros
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Enough
- Why the World's Poorest Starve in An Age of Plenty
- De: Roger Thurow, Scott Kilman
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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For more than 30 years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the Green Revolution succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every yearmost of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse.
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It's Time For Us To Be More Compassionate
- De James en 07-18-10
De: Roger Thurow, y otros
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Jump-Starting America
- How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
- De: Jonathan Gruber, Simon Johnson
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.
De: Jonathan Gruber, y otros
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The Zero Marginal Cost Society
- The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
- De: Jeremy Rifkin
- Narrado por: David Cochran Heath
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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In this provocative new book, Rifkin argues that the coming together of the Communication Internet with the fledgling Energy Internet and Logistics Internet in a seamless twenty-first-century intelligent infrastructure—the Internet of Things—is boosting productivity to the point where the marginal cost of producing many goods and services is nearly zero, making them essentially free.
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Not a convincing argument-just stories & ideology
- De Pierre Parent en 07-26-17
De: Jeremy Rifkin
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The Challenge for Africa
- De: Wangari Maathai
- Narrado por: Chinasa Ogbuagu
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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Nobel Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai has campaigned for environmental activism and democracy in Africa for more thanthree decades. In The Challenge for Africa, she delivers an insightful call to action, presenting a realistic look at the diverse problems facing Africans today.
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10 years later, this is still powerful.
- De Presence en 04-21-18
De: Wangari Maathai
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Getting Green Done
- Hard Truths From the Frontlines of Sustainability Revolution
- De: Auden Schendler
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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Soccer moms drive Priuses. Sport utility vehicles are going hybrid. Families are using hemp shopping bags. More and more companies are developing "green" buildings. What's more, the business consultants say going green is easy and profitable. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are still fiddling with the small stuff while the planet burns. Why?
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Green's Dirty Little Secrets
- De Martin en 07-10-09
De: Auden Schendler
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
- De: Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch - associate editor
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary movie The 11th Hour, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture's blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem.
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One of the Most Important Books of our Time
- De Jana en 04-24-20
De: Thom Hartmann, y otros
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The Prosperity Paradox
- How Innovation Can Lift Nations out of Poverty
- De: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, Karen Dillon
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator’s Dilemma and the New York Times best-seller How Will You Measure Your Life, and coauthors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity and offers a groundbreaking solution for true and lasting change.
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Simplistic, lack of insights
- De D. Cameron en 05-24-21
De: Clayton M. Christensen, y otros
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Connectography
- Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
- De: Parag Khanna
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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In Connectography, visionary strategist Parag Khanna travels from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, Pakistan to Nigeria, and across the Arctic Circle to explain the unprecedented changes affecting every part of the planet. He shows how militaries are deployed to protect supply chains as much as borders, and how nations are less at war over territory than engaged in tugs-of-war over pipelines, railways, shipping lanes, and Internet cables. The new arms race is to connect to the most markets.
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Fluffy and Pretentious
- De Kurt Emery Matson en 12-01-16
De: Parag Khanna
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- De: Bill Gates
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change."
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Be curious, not furious
- De Axel Merk en 02-20-21
De: Bill Gates
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Let There Be Water
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Israel's history and current approach to water abundance
Informative and repetitive so the reader can absorb the information of Israel's water history and current approach to water abundance. If you don't know anything about Israel's work in the area of water, you'll be fully enlightened. If you know something about it, you may learn more detail about their comprehensive approach, methodologies and technologies.
The narrator is easy to listen to not distracting. A book that I tried to get through quickly, but there were so many details I wanted to absorb, I took my time picking it up and putting it away, coming back to it over time. I wish the U.S and other wealthy nations could employ as many of Israel's methodologies as possible and we are slowly, but it will take a real crisis (versus an inconvenience) it seems of climate and economy before we build the system Israel has. It seems like Israel was proactive, but in a way in order to build a nation of wealth and to absorb the populations that were flooding into the area, Israel also had important incentive to build the water policies and network it has today. Even though the author presents Israel as being mostly forward thinking, I would argue it that there were some water visionaries of course, but the ideas became reality because of need. It's just human nature for most people to be reactive.
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- Steve Weber
- 11-05-18
Great insight into whats to come
I bought this audio book thinking that it might shed some light on way to invest in water to make money, I was not disappointed. Though not written for that matter, it did give good resources that led to insight into investment opportunity. I wish the US government would take note as what is to come if we do not solve the water crisis, especially in California which is controlled by Dems so one would think that they wouldn't have a problem with socializing water utility companies.
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- Shawn Oueinsteen
- 07-06-16
More Important than the Author Knows
What Israel did is well told, but the author is obviously not aware that global warming will make the rivers dry up. This will make what Israel did more important than ever.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-09-17
Splashing
Dry in parts but a fountain of knowledge is here. The book is anything but brackish. In fact, it is surging with the force of a monsoon.
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- Roizak
- 04-27-18
Excellent book
Very good and comprehensive illustrated book. Gives pride to the state of Israel and the water people in it.
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- voracious reader
- 10-05-23
An important subject for today's world
Not the most "entertaining" book but fascinating and helps bring light to an issue facing our globe.
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- Mendy
- 02-24-19
Amazing
Both the narration and content of this book were superb. Easy to understand and very informative. Highly recommend
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- BLAIN
- 02-11-16
Change climate change to water shortage
Outstanding book about a looming crisis of water shortage. It' s the elephant in the room nobody is talking about. Israel had to deal with water shortage to survive in its arid part of the world. Now they are exporting water. The book describes how they solved their water problem. It's amazing they are the world leaders in this area. A must read.
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- R.Walker
- 11-11-18
We should pay attention
The important message of this book is that we should all pay more attention to our personal, household, local, and national use and policies toward water.
The time for change is now so that our children and grandchildren may benefit.
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- David N.
- 05-15-16
This is a must read
I learned about a crisis that affects the world and how ISRAEL is a significant part of the solution. Well written and objective The author informs all of us of not just problems but real life solutions once thought impossible which can have a significant impact from the smallest town to our great country. We should learn not just by Israel's success but it's failures and most important tackling the problem with a long term objective of solving the problem, not just the short term patches that politicians in all countries take. If we learn from israel the world can be water independent. Like oil we let market forces determine short term solutions instead of focusing on the long term policies and investments which would allow all of us to know that future generations will in fact be "water independent". If we are really worried about our children and grandchildrens future we should read this book and put water at the top of our priorities.
David Naftaly
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