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A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life
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.
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.
448 pages, Hardcover
Published October 9, 2018
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L. Hunter Lovins
24 books17 followersL. Hunter Lovins is an American environmentalist, author, sustainable development proponent, co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute, and president of the nonprofit organization Natural Capitalism Solutions.
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January 6, 2019
Comprehensive and instructive, A Finer Future is an honest and humbling roadmap to the next economy. Grounded in collective wellbeing (rather than perpetual growth), and characterized by mutuality and common wealth (rather than exclusivity and concentrated wealth), it is fully and cogently described in these dense pages.
Lovins doesn’t shy away, though, from discussing the profound challenges that lie ahead as she describes an economic transition unlike any we’ve ever seen before. It will be hard. And yet, it’s inevitable. And it’s already happening.
Keep this one close at hand. It’s the text book for what’s next for our economy, our prosperity, and our collective, planetary wellbeing.
Lovins doesn’t shy away, though, from discussing the profound challenges that lie ahead as she describes an economic transition unlike any we’ve ever seen before. It will be hard. And yet, it’s inevitable. And it’s already happening.
Keep this one close at hand. It’s the text book for what’s next for our economy, our prosperity, and our collective, planetary wellbeing.
January 7, 2020
I was enjoying this book until I found out that the author does not have a basic understanding of the environmental impact of dietary choices. How can you publish an environmental book that is against decreased meat consumption 🤔
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December 1, 2021
I am tempted to buy a few copies and send them to my local federal and provincial politicians. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that it can read a bit like a textbook at times, (but only because it is so well-researched). Here are a couple of highlights that floored me......we often hear about the 1% of people who make the most income or who have the most wealth. Until reading this book, I thought the 1% were the super rich. Turns out, I'm one of them....and probably, so are you. All it takes to get you into the top 1% of global income is $32,000. That's because most of the world earns nothing - or close to it. And to get into the top 1% of global wealth? You only have to have a net worth of $770,000. Wow. The authors also make the most comprehensive and compelling case as to why GDP is absolutely the wrong measure of success, happiness and wealth. I thought I always knew this, but now I really do. A Finer Future is the paradigm shift we all need to make.
January 25, 2021
A Finer Future gives a good overview of the present situation and what is required to escape our predicament. It is supported by a huge number of references, which is to be expected considering the experience of the authors.
However, at times it felt like reading an enumeration of facts without a compelling story and a red thread, which is why l didn't release the last star.
In fact, I enjoyed much more reading Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth, who also wrote the foreword to this book. The two books overlap very much in scope and content, but I find that Doughnut Economics provides a much better understanding of the history of why we have ended up where we are today, and how we have to change.
However, at times it felt like reading an enumeration of facts without a compelling story and a red thread, which is why l didn't release the last star.
In fact, I enjoyed much more reading Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth, who also wrote the foreword to this book. The two books overlap very much in scope and content, but I find that Doughnut Economics provides a much better understanding of the history of why we have ended up where we are today, and how we have to change.
March 31, 2024
Envisioning the great switch to a greener future - sounds in part like self-hypnosis, might be due to the American style of hype-wording. Should not distract from the seriousness of the issues and the urgency of change needed
December 11, 2018
Pretty standard Club of Rome too big to be real solutions.
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