cover image Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet

Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet

Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope, read by Charles Pellet and Carl Pope. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 9 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-8847-9

Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, and Pope, his senior climate advisor and a former executive director of the Sierra Club, team up to discuss how cities from Mumbai to Miami can and should drive climate change innovations through collaborations with municipalities, NGOs, and businesses. The authors share their own conservation strategies and projects in alternating chapters. Bloomberg reads the preface, and some listeners, especially the New Yorkers, will immediately recognize his voice with its characteristic New York accent and slight lisp. Then news anchor Pellet, who is a reporter for Bloomberg Radio, steps in for the former mayor, reading chapters written by Bloomberg in a clear voice that avoids mimicry. Pope reads his own chapters; although he communicates his enthusiasm for the subject, his sections are more technical, and as a result harder to keep up with. He also doesn’t have radio experience like Pellet. The combination of narrators doesn’t feel like a match, as it would if both were authors or professional narrators. A St. Martin’s hardcover. (Apr.)