From the creators of the highly acclaimed New York Times
best-selling Day in the Life and America 247 series, Rick Smolan
and Jennifer Erwitt, Blue Planet Run provides readers with a
fascinating and thought-provoking look at the water problems facing
humanity on every continent, as well as some of the hopeful
solutions and courageous “water heroes” focused on alleviating this
crisis.
The large-format volume features more than 250 photographs by the
world’s top photojournalists, illustrations by leading infographic
artist Nigel Holmes, and provocative essays by Diane Ackerman A
Natural History of the Senses, environmental leaders Paul Hawken
and Bill McKibben, journalists Michael Specter and Jeffrey
Rothfeder, Emmy Award-winning TV broadcaster Mike Cerre, Michael
Malone, of ABC News and inventor Dean Kamen the Segway scooter.
Advisors and staff include Phillip Moffitt, former editor and owner
of Esquire magazine and Stephen Petranek, former editor-in-chief of
Discover magazine.
Blue Planet Run highlights the vital contributions of nonprofits
around the world, including the groundbreaking work of the Blue
Planet Run Foundation, which seeks to provide safe drinking water
to 200 million people by 2027. The book includes coverage of the
2007 Blue Planet Run, an unprecedented, non-stop, around-the-world
relay race designed as a wake-up call to the world. Twenty-one
runners, representing 13 countries, began the race on June 1, 2007,
at the United Nations and concluded in New York City on September
4, 2007, having circled the Earth in just 95 days while running
over 15,000 miles across 16 countries in Europe, Asia and North
America.