Tomorrow’s the big day and yes we do plan on doing a little “liveblogging” here so join us for JK and THK’s appearance on the Today show. I’ll try to get an approximate time of appearance and add an update here. Plus, tomorrow night, JK will be on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Definitely plan on some liveblogging fun.

The reviews for This Moment on Earth are starting to come in. Mole333 of The Daily Gotham wrote:

I was surprisingly inspired by John and Teresa Heinz Kerry’s new book, This Moment on Earth, coming out March 26th, 2007. This inspiration snuck up on me around the third chapter. ...Starting around the third chapter I realized I was referring to the book in several conversations and several blog diaries and that several of the people and organizations featured in the book I mentally filed away as worth looking into for future political connections, diaries and general research.

In short, almost without my realizing it, John Kerry’s book was getting into my brain and inspiring me. The book starts a bit dull but by the end is excellent.

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I found I was citing the most and taking the most note of was exactly what the Kerrys WANTED me to notice the most: the people who are fighting back. I think it was the case of Majora Carter and Sustainable South Bronx that finally made me realize that this book was inspiring me because I immediately decided she’d be perfect as an invited speaker for a political group I am involved with. The example of Riverkeeper, where ex-marines decided to patrol our nation’s waterways to protect them from polluters, was another “wow” moment. Even Don Imus and his wife Deidre come off inspiring in This Moment on Earth, something I never imagined I’d say.

And Chapter 7, discussing energy policy, is the best chapter, showing how right here and now, using existing technology, the city of Portland, OR, as well as companies like Texas Instruments and DuPont are doing EXACTLY what needs to be done to reduce carbon emissions…and doing it while creating jobs and saving money. Chapter 7 shows us that there remain NO EXCUSES for America to continue to avoid taking a leadership role in stopping global warming. All that we lack, as I have written before is the political leadership on a national level. Kerry shows us that locally there has been considerable leadership by both Democrats and Republicans. But nationally Bush has led us down a path that leads nowhere and that has ceded economic ingenuity to other nations.

So it is precisely through highlighting some wonderful people who are empowering themselves, their communities and, in fact, all of us that John and Teresa Heinz Kerry inspire in this book.

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Put all this together and you may not have the next step in the evolution of the environmental debate, but you certainly have one more important step forward and one that might have a wider appeal than Collapse and An Inconvenient Truth.

Mole333, thanks for sharing the impact that this book had. I’m looking forward to your followup posts and actions.

If you’ve had a chance to read the book or you find another review, please share it with us in the comments.

UPDATE: JK & THK will be on the Today Show tomorrow morning at some point between 7:00 am and 7:25 am ET. Join us then for liveblogging.

If your morning schedule won’t allow it, do join us tomorrow night for liveblogging JK on The Daily Show.

See you tomorrow.