L. Hunter Lovins, Stewart Wallis, Anders Wijkman, John Fullerton

A Finer Future (eBook, ePUB)

Creating an Economy in Service to Life

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771422871
• Artikelnr.: 53793893

Autorenporträt

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. Stewart Wallis was Executive Director of the New Economics Foundation, UK, and advises the World Economic Forum. Anders Wijkman is Co-Chair of the Club of Rome, a former EU parliamentarian, and co-author of Bankrupting Nature and Come On! John Fullerton is President of Capital Institute and former Managing Director at JP Morgan. More about the book can be found at ourfinerfuture.com.

Inhaltsangabe

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