Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition, The: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials) - Softcover

Hawken, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061252794 ISBN 13: 9780061252792

Publisher: HarperBusiness, 2010

Synopsis

A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet."The first important book of the 21st century. It may well revolutionize the relationship between business and the environment."--Don Falk, Executive Director, Society for Ecological Restoration

About this title

Book Description:

The first practical blueprint for a prosperous yet sustainable future.

From the Back Cover:

The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned argument--that business both causes the most egregious abuses of the environment and, crucially, holds the most potential for solving our sustainability problems--is more relevant and resonant than ever.

Containing updated and revised material for a new audience, The Ecology of Commerce presents a compelling vision of the restorative (rather than destructive) economy we must create, centered on eight imperatives:

• Reduce energy carbon emissions 80 percent by 2030 and total natural resource usage 80 percent by 2050.
• Provide secure, stable, and meaningful employment to people everywhere.
• Be self-organizing rather than regulated or morally mandated.
• Honor market principles.
• Restore habitats, ecosystems, and societies to their optimum.
• Rely on current income.
• Be fun and engaging, and strive for an aesthetic outcome.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperBusiness
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061252794
• ISBN 13: 9780061252792
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224