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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Ideas in sustainable development mature:

Paul Hawken and the Lovins' move the ideas of sustainable societial development forward with this new book. Natural Capitalism outlines many of the cutting edge technologies and philosophies that will do well by doing good. It is important to note that this is not a green guide to wacky business ideas, but a sound guidepost to solid profitable business opportunities. The book is written in such as way as to inspire systems thinking and to promote applications of this thinking to any business.

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Highly important for shaping the future:

This was one of those books that took me weeks to read simply because of the fact that it was so disturbingly real and struck home so well that when read before bed there was no sleeping to be had. I had the honor of seeing Paul Hawkin speak in person at the Oregon Sustainability Forum this month in downtown Portland. It is obvious how moving Paul finds the issues confronted in this book, that are faced by every member of the human race, and every other race, on the planet today. The authors of Natural... more info

Not the environmental economics bible people seem to think:

Natural Capitalism suffers some fatal flaws, while not a complete waste of time, not a book to read if you want great ideas that can make it out of the ivory tower. While claiming to provide a path for evnvironmental and social justice, this book blithely ignores the actual impacts of its ideas on the lower classes as well as the prevalence and tenacity of international monetary and banking organizations. While touting that having people pay for rental on material goods, or pay for the service they supply,... more info

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