What happens when a zealous environmentalist meets the gritty political reality of the South Bronx in New York City? In 1992, Allen Hershkowitz came up with what he thought were win-win plans to build a state-of-the-art paper-recycling plant on an abandoned, polluted site in the area, which would have created much-needed jobs, been a model of green development, and helped deal with the thousands of tons of waste paper that New Yorkers discard each day. The project seemed so promising that then-President Clinton touted it in a 1996 book. But before long it became mired in community politics, legal wrangling, and financial frustrations, and the Bronx Community Paper Company never got off the ground. Two new books assess the effort's failure, and raise serious questions about how to unite environmental restoration with positive community development. Read a review of the books -- only on the Grist Magazine website.