The Ecology of Commerce
by Paul Hawken
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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, show more 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. show lessTags
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still working on this one. it's not really that heavy, but it's implications are. i find myself a little glum after just a few pages, but i know it lightens up once the problem is outlined. it does make recycling my soda can obsolete though.
If there was ever a book that was a MUST read for every MBA student and every business leader, this would be the one.
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Apr 20, 2011Spanish
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Ecology of Commerce
- Original publication date
- 1993
- Dedication
- For Ray Anderson
For Max - First words
- I have come to believe that we in America and in the rest of the industrialized West do not know what business really is, or, therefore, what it can become.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Such conventions are ultimately an endless discussion by people on how to say grace, kknowing that we do take and harm as we live; that life is always a moral question that lies before us sweetly, dependent on our gratitude and constant struggle to cause as little suffering as possible to all and everything around us.
- Blurbers
- Gendron, George ; Anderson, Ray C.; Capra, Fritjof; Falk, Don; Pellecchia, Michael; Utne, Eric (show all 7); Lovins, Amory
Classifications
- Genres
- Science & Nature, Nonfiction, Business, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 658.408 — Applied science & technology Management & public relations General management Executive Social responsability of executive management
- LCC
- HD60 .H393 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Social responsibility of business
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- 824
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- Reviews
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- (4.12)
- Languages
- English, French, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 10
