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
Autorentext
L. Hunter Lovins, Time Magazine's Millennium Hero for the Planet, is a business professor, President and Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions, and co-author of The Way Out and the best-selling Natural Capitalism.
Inhalt
Introduction: Welcome to the Anthropocene
Chapter One: Collapse: It's a Risk: We're in a Mess
Chapter Two: What Got Us into the Mess?
Chapter Three: Tell me a story: To Avoid Collapse We Need a New Narrative
Chapter Four: Buying Time
Chapter Five: Elements of the New Plot
5.1: Financial Sector Reform
5.2: Corporate Reform
5.3: Agriculture Reform
5.4: Energy Reform
5.5: The Mother of All Disruptions
Chapter Six: Systemic Change; What Has to Happen to Get Us Out of the Mess
6.1 Redistribution of wealth
6.2 Meeting the Basic Needs of All
6.3 Strategic Management of the Commons
6.4 Confronting the Myth of Growth
6.5 A Values Shift
6.6 Rethinking governance
6.7 Think Global Act Local
Chapter Seven: A Finer Future is Possible