Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling

by Andrew J. Hoffman

Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of imagination, perhaps the greatest ever, in human history? Distilling and refining over 20 pieces from a lifetime of work in academia and trade, across speeches, blogs, editorials and essays, Hoffman invites us to look beyond material growth and explore the role of the individual and business in discovering a wider purpose to bring about a balanced and sustainable society.

The reader is encouraged to consider humanity’s relationship with the environment through different business, academia, faith-based and cultural. By bringing them together, Hoffman encourages us to understand our relationship with the planet in a far more holistic sense.

Drawing on ideas from philosophy, literature, natural sciences and politics, Hoffman ensures that the ideas he explores are wholly accessible and applicable. Fully substantiated through various research and examples, the issues described are consistently made relevant to the reader.Finding Purpose is the perfect book for anyone – from student to CEO – thinking about their place in the world, and how making changes in our own lives and societies can impact on the world around us.

174 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 25, 2016

Reviews

[Elizabeth Lozano · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some chapters are incisive and memorable. However it seems to me that he promises at the start some elucidation of the relationship between sustainability and a personal calling, and that connection never materializes. Still, I found the book informative and inspiring as a model for how to write books geared towards advocating. teaching and (perhaps) transforming. So I would call this book personally inspiring in form and intention though a bit disappointing in content .

[Elizabeta Agarkova · Rating 4 out of 5]

Эту книгу нам задали в университете в качестве летнего чтения. Книга довольно увлекательная, понятная, доступно объясняет все достоинства и проблемы движения «зелёных». Автор явно хорошо подкован как в экономике, так и в теологии и психологии, что в наше время изолированных специалистов большая редкость. Единственное, что сильно раздражало в этой книге - идеалистичный тон автора и обилие лексики, похожей на мотивационные цитаты. Мне совершенно непонятно, зачем в книге про науку и вышедшее из неё социальное движение были нужны вставки вроде «найдите свою цель» или «избавляйтесь от цепей капитализма». Читатели вроде и так немаленькие и сами все понимают. За дурацкие вставки снимаю одну звезду, а в остальном - хорошая книга.

[Kalindi Fonda]

Funny mix of self-help productivity book and climate change. Having started my most recent binge with these two genres, it was funny to see it combined.

Nothing earth shattering but was a good way you pass the time as it has some interesting numbers and thought, plus it’s good to hear someone toot the business horn.

But i am sad every time it’s not the writers themselves reading the books.