A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life - Hardcover

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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865718989 ISBN 13: 9780865718982

Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet.

Humanity is in a race with catastrophe. Is the future one of global warming, 65 million migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality, and grid-locked politics? Or one of empowered entrepreneurs and innovators working towards social change, leveling the playing field, and building a world that works for everyone? While the specter of collapse looms large, A Finer Future demonstrates that humanity has a chance - just - to thread the needle of sustainability and build a regenerative economy through a powerful combination of enlightened entrepreneurialism, regenerative economy, technology, and innovative policy.

The authors - world leaders in business, economics, and sustainability - gather the environmental economics evidence, outline the principles of a regenerative economy, and detail a policy roadmap to achieving it, including:

• Transforming finance and corporations
• Reimagining energy, agriculture, ecosystems, and the nature of how we work
• Enhancing human well-being
• Delivering a world that respects ecosystems and human community.

Charting the course to a regenerative economy is the most important work facing humanity and A Finer Future provides the essential blueprint for business leaders, entrepreneurs, environmentalists, politicians, policymakers, and others working to create a world that works for people and the planet.

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 .

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The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet

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HUMANITY is in a race with catastrophe. Is the future one of global warming, 65 million migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality, and grid-locked politics? Or one of empowered entrepreneurs and innovators building a world that works for everyone?

While the specter of collapse looms large, A Finer Future demonstrates that humanity has a chance - just - to thread the needle of sustain ability and build a regenerative economy through a powerful combination of enlightened entrepreneurialism, technology, and innovative policy.

The authors - world leaders in business, economics, and sustainability - gather the evidence, outline the principles of a regenerative economy, and detail a policy roadmap to achieving it, including:

• Transforming finance and corporations
• Reimagining energy, agriculture, and the nature of how we work
• Enhancing human well-being
• Delivering a world that respects ecosystems and human community.

Charting the course to a regenerative economy is the most important work facing humanity and A Finer Future provides the essential blueprint for business leaders, entrepreneurs, environmentalists, politicians, policymakers, and others working to create a world that works for people and the planet.

L. HUNTER LOVINS is Time Magazine's Millennium Hero for the Planet, President and Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions, and co-author of The Way Out and the best-selling Natural Capitalism.

STEWART WALLIS is Executive Chair of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance; Honorary Professor at Lancaster University; and former Executive Director of the New Economics Foundation. He now leads a new initiative to create a global wellbeing economic movement.

ANDERS WIJKMAN is Co-President of the Club of Rome; Chair of Climate-KIC, the largest publicprivate partnership for climate innovation in the EU; and author of Bankrupting Nature and Come On!

JOHN FULLERTON is founder and President of Capital Institute, and a former Managing Director at JP Morgan. He is also the author of Regenerative Capitalism: How Universal Principles and Patterns Will Shape our New Economy .

Edition details

• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0865718989
• ISBN 13: 9780865718982
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 448