Cache: Creating Natural Economies - Softcover

Beebe, Spencer B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967636450 ISBN 13: 9780967636450

Publisher: EPICENTER PR INC, 2010

Synopsis

Cache Cache offers a fresh, hopeful perspective at a time when global economic, social, and environmental crises are growing. It is a compelling book for business people who wish to build businesses with more than the bottom line in mind, for conservationists who wish to get practical results in a world not always sympathetic to their goals; and for people who simply love nature and try to learn from it. This book is a trove of stories and photographs from the author's nearly four decades pioneering new approaches to conservation and development.

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Review

"There is simply no antecedent for Spencer Beebe. His accomplishments in stitching this wounded world back together are vast, original, and matched by a breadth of vision that instills greatness in others. The word leader is beggared by his abilities and craft. This is a story of a man who has blessed the world." -- Paul Hawken "author, environmentalist"

"The safest thing to do is invest in what we need, not what we want. Cache explains why." -- Yvon Chouinard "founder of Patagonia"

"Cache is, quite simply, brilliant." -- C.S. "Buzz" Holling "Emeritus Eminent Scholar and Professor in Ecological Sciences, University of Florida"

"Cache reveals that success is possible and, by setting so high a standard, encourages us to take our part of protecting the only world we'll ever know." -- Thomas McGuane "best-selling author"

From the Inside Flap

Spencer Beebe believes that a more reliable prosperity will elude us until we change our relations with each other and with the rest of the natural world. Cache: Creating Natural Economies provides on-the-ground examples of how we can do this.

Beebe, who has been described as a practical visionary, has been at the forefront of efforts to create more resilient communities, economies, and environments for almost forty years. In the 1970s, he ran the Northwest and Western regional programs of The Nature Conservancy; in the 1980s, he developed The Nature Conservancy International Program, and was founding president of Conservation International, one of the world's largest conservation organizations.

Today Beebe is founder and president of Ecotrust, where his innovations include founding the world's first environment bank; creating a range of programs in fisheries, forestry, food, and farms; establishing an annual awards program that honors and supports the work of indigenous people; and developing new scientific and information tools to improve social, economic, and environmental decision-making.

Cache not only recounts Beebe's personal journey, but also traces the parallel evolution of the environmental movement and provides fresh thinking about the road ahead.

It is a book for business people who wish to build businesses with more than the bottom-line in mind; for conservationists who wish to get practical results in a world not always sympathetic to their goals; and for people who simply love nature and, like Beebe, try to learn from it. Cache is, in Tom Brokaw's words, an "evocative and inspirational book."

Edition details

• Publisher: EPICENTER PR INC
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967636450
• ISBN 13: 9780967636450
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252