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The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet
This book is your entry ticket to the movement for sustainable well-being and a better world.
— Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, authors, The Spirit Level
Indeed, there is a regenerative economy to be built and it will be the keystone of a finer future, laid out here by four of the most observant and prescient thinkers of our time.
— David W. Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics,Oberlin College, and author, Dangerous Years
An important book for our times.
— Andrew Winston, author, The Big Pivot and Green to Gold
Beautifully comprehensive and inspiring. What we need.
— Dr. Eban Goodstein, director, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Simply a must-read if you are interested in the future of the planet and your role in it!
— Brenna St. Onge, executive director, The Alliance Center
A new story that can galvanize the largest "we" in human history. This book calls us to serve sanity, justice, and every living thing.
— Donna Morton, CEO, Change Finance
A masterful mix of the hard and soft sciences, putting solid numbers behind sound narratives.
— Nils Moe, managing director, Urban Sustainability Directors Network
Essential reading to enable an avalanche of creative solutions that embed resilience and restore natural capital in every project.
— Professor Cheryl Desha, Head of Civil Engineering, Griffith University and co-author, Factor 5 and Whole System Design
Rarely has economics been so fun and exhilarating to read about. It blends vision with insightful analysis of why our world is in such a perilous state, with a good helping of tangible examples of the changes so vitally needed.
— Dr. Katherine Trebeck, research director, Wellbeing Economy Alliance
List of contents
Foreword by Kate Raworth
Acknowledgements
Prologue: The Parable of the Caterpillar
Introduction: Welcome to the Anthropocene
Section 1: It'll Do Til the Mess Arrives
1. Imagine
2. The Story That Got Us In Trouble
3. Tell Me A Better Story: Regenerative Economics
Section 2: Buying Time to Fix the Mess
4. Everyone Wins: The Circular Economy
5. Building A Better World
6. Going Places: Efficiency in Vehicles
Section 3: Transformation: The Plot Thickens
7. Moving Money from Harm to Healing
8. Corporate Transformation
9. Growing a Finer Future
10. Triumph of the Sun: The Mother of All Disruptions
Section 4: Systemic Change: Policies to Get Us Out of the Mess
11. Level the Playing Field
12. Meet Basic Needs for All
13. Confront the Myth of Growth
14. A Values Shift
15. Reinventing Governance
16. Bringing It Home
Section 5: A Finer Future Is Possible
Notes
Index
About the Authors
About New Society Publishers
About the author
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.
Summary
Humanity is in a race with catastrophe and charting the course to a regenerative economy is the most important work facing the world. A Finer Future gathers the evidence and delivers the essential blueprint for an economy that works for people and the planet.
Foreword
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