A Finer Future
Autor L. Hunter Lovins, Stewart Wallis, Anders Wijkman, John Fullertonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 sep 2018
The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet
This book is your entry ticket to the movement for sustainable well-being and a better world.
- Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, authors, The Spirit Level
Indeed, there is a regenerative economy to be built and it will be the keystone of a finer future, laid out here by four of the most observant and prescient thinkers of our time.
- David W. Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics,Oberlin College, and author, Dangerous Years
An important book for our times.
- Andrew Winston, author, The Big Pivot and Green to Gold
Beautifully comprehensive and inspiring. What we need.
- Dr. Eban Goodstein, director, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Simply a must-read if you are interested in the future of the planet and your role in it!
- Brenna St. Onge, executive director, The Alliance Center
A new story that can galvanize the largest "we" in human history. This book calls us to serve sanity, justice, and every living thing.
- Donna Morton, CEO, Change Finance
A masterful mix of the hard and soft sciences, putting solid numbers behind sound narratives.
- Nils Moe, managing director, Urban Sustainability Directors Network
Essential reading to enable an avalanche of creative solutions that embed resilience and restore natural capital in every project.
- Professor Cheryl Desha, Head of Civil Engineering, Griffith University and co-author, Factor 5 and Whole System Design
Rarely has economics been so fun and exhilarating to read about. It blends vision with insightful analysis of why our world is in such a perilous state, with a good helping of tangible examples of the changes so vitally needed.
- Dr. Katherine Trebeck, research director, Wellbeing Economy Alliance
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0865718989
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Editura: New Society Publishers
Notă biografică
Cuprins
Foreword by Kate Raworth
Acknowledgements
Prologue: The Parable of the Caterpillar
Introduction: Welcome to the Anthropocene
Section 1: It'll Do Til the Mess Arrives
1. Imagine
2. The Story That Got Us In Trouble
3. Tell Me A Better Story: Regenerative Economics
Section 2: Buying Time to Fix the Mess
4. Everyone Wins: The Circular Economy
5. Building A Better World
6. Going Places: Efficiency in Vehicles
Section 3: Transformation: The Plot Thickens
7. Moving Money from Harm to Healing
8. Corporate Transformation
9. Growing a Finer Future
10. Triumph of the Sun: The Mother of All Disruptions
Section 4: Systemic Change: Policies to Get Us Out of the Mess
11. Level the Playing Field
12. Meet Basic Needs for All
13. Confront the Myth of Growth
14. A Values Shift
15. Reinventing Governance
16. Bringing It Home
Section 5: A Finer Future Is Possible
Notes
Index
About the Authors
About New Society Publishers