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by L. Hunter Lovins (Author), Stewart Wallis (Author), Anders Wijkman (Author)
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.
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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
Author Biography
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. Stewart Wallis was Executive Director of the New Economics Foundation, UK, and advises the World Economic Forum. Anders Wijkman is Co-Chair of the Club of Rome, a former EU parliamentarian, and co-author of Bankrupting Nature and Come On! John Fullerton is President of Capital Institute and former Managing Director at JP Morgan. More about the book can be found at ourfinerfuture.com.
