The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of SustainabilityHarper Collins, 5. mars 2013 - 256 sider 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:
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The Death of Birth | 23 |
The Creation of Waste | 45 |
Parking Lots and Potato Heads | 65 |
Pigous Solution | 85 |
The Size Thing | 103 |
When an Ethic Is Not an Ethic | 121 |
Restoring the Guardian | 137 |
Pink Salmon and Green Fees | 151 |
The Inestimable Gift of a Future | 173 |
Notes | 197 |
Acknowledgments | 209 |
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