Edward Humes

The average American produces 102 tons of garbage in a lifetime. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Edward Humes looks at what’s in that trash; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how some families, communities, and even nations are finding a way transform waste into energy and prosperity. He investigates the trail of trash in Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Garbage.

While many people remain paralyzed by the scope of Earth's environmental woes, eco barons— a new and largely unheralded generation of Rockefellers and Carnegies— are having spectacular success saving forests and wild-lands, pulling endangered species back from the brink, and pioneering the clean and green technologies needed if life and ...