"This compilation of conversations with expert sustainability thinkers from around the world offers a fresh perspective on a wide variety of green issues and how they relate to the real estate industry today. Based on the Green Quotient column that appears in Urban Land magazine, the book offers 27 full-length, in-depth interviews, including those with three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and best-selling author Thomas L. Friedman; the well-known environmentalist and executive director of the Natural Capitalism Institute, Paul Hawken; Jaime Lerner, an architect and urban planner who is a multiple-term mayor and governor in Parana, Brazil; and S. Richard Fedrizzi, the founding chairman, president, and chief executive officer of the U.S. Green Building Council and founder of the World Green Building Council." "Since the Green Quotient column was launched in June 2006, the United States has undergone significant political changes, an advance in the green building industry, a roller-coaster ride in the energy industry, and today's economic crisis. These conversations cover a range of important issues while showing the progression of thinking and green actions in the United States and abroad."--Jacket.