The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability - Softcover

Hawken, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887307043 ISBN 13: 9780887307041

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1994

Synopsis

Provides a visionary blueprint for a marketplace where businesses and environmentalists work together, showing companies how to redesign and manufacture products in innovative ways, reeducate customers, and work closely with government toward a profitable, productive, and ecologically sound future. Reprint.

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: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0887307043
• ISBN 13: 9780887307041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250