If Davy Crockett was the “king of the wild frontier”, his descendant David
Crockett, a councillor in Chattanooga, is the king of sustainability in
America’s new urban landscapes. The story of how he greened his rust-belt
Tennessee city—turning steel factories into recycling plants, for
instance—features among 25 pen-portraits of practical visionaries in Steve
Lerner’s nicely turned Eco-Pioneers. Published by MIT Press, $25, ISBN
0262122073.
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