(Back Cover) "Green is the new red, white, and blue," Thomas L. Freidman declares, and proposes that a national strategy is needed to save the planet and to make America healthier, richer, and more innovative, more productive, and more secure. Green-oriented practices and technologies are the only way to mitigate climate change and the best way to "reknit America at home, reconnect America abroad, retool America for the new century, and restore America to its natural place in the global order."