Download PDF The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), by Paul Hawken
Now, exactly how do you know where to get this book The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken Don't bother, now you could not go to guide establishment under the brilliant sunlight or evening to search guide The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken We here consistently help you to locate hundreds sort of publication. One of them is this publication entitled The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken You might visit the web link web page provided in this set and afterwards choose downloading. It will certainly not take more times. Just hook up to your web accessibility as well as you could access the publication The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken online. Obviously, after downloading and install The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken, you could not publish it.
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), by Paul Hawken
Download PDF The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), by Paul Hawken
Locate the key to boost the lifestyle by reading this The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken This is a type of book that you require now. Besides, it can be your favored publication to review after having this publication The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken Do you ask why? Well, The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken is a book that has different characteristic with others. You might not need to recognize which the writer is, exactly how well-known the job is. As sensible word, never ever judge the words from which speaks, however make the words as your good value to your life.
As one of guide compilations to suggest, this The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken has some strong factors for you to read. This publication is extremely ideal with just what you need currently. Besides, you will certainly additionally like this book The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken to review because this is among your referred books to review. When going to get something new based on encounter, home entertainment, and also various other lesson, you can use this book The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken as the bridge. Beginning to have reading habit can be gone through from different ways and from variant kinds of books
In reviewing The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken, now you may not additionally do traditionally. In this modern-day period, gadget and computer will aid you a lot. This is the moment for you to open the gizmo and remain in this site. It is the ideal doing. You can see the connect to download this The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken right here, can not you? Just click the web link and negotiate to download it. You can get to buy guide The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken by online and prepared to download and install. It is quite various with the conventional means by gong to the book establishment around your city.
However, checking out guide The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken in this site will lead you not to bring the printed book anywhere you go. Simply save guide in MMC or computer disk as well as they are available to check out whenever. The flourishing air conditioner by reading this soft file of the The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken can be introduced something new practice. So now, this is time to confirm if reading can improve your life or otherwise. Make The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), By Paul Hawken it certainly work and also get all benefits.
The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned argument—that business both causes the most egregious abuses of the environment and, crucially, holds the most potential for solving our sustainability problems—is more relevant and resonant than ever.
Containing updated and revised material for a new audience, The Ecology of Commerce presents a compelling vision of the restorative (rather than destructive) economy we must create, centered on eight imperatives:
- Reduce energy carbon emissions 80 percent by 2030 and total natural resource usage 80 percent by 2050.
- Provide secure, stable, and meaningful employment to people everywhere.
- Be self-organizing rather than regulated or morally mandated.
- Honor market principles.
- Restore habitats, ecosystems, and societies to their optimum.
- Rely on current income.
- Be fun and engaging, and strive for an aesthetic outcome.
- Sales Rank: #205504 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-03-05
- Released on: 2013-03-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
Amazon.com Review
Paul Hawken, the entrepreneur behind the Smith & Hawken gardening supplies empire, is no ordinary capitalist. Drawing as much on Baba Ram Dass and Vaclav Havel as he does on Peter Drucker and WalMart for his case studies, Hawken is on a one-man crusade to reform our economic system by demanding that First World businesses reduce their consumption of energy and resources by 80 percent in the next 50 years. As if that weren't enough, Hawken argues that business goals should be redefined to embrace such fuzzy categories as whether the work is aesthetically pleasing and the employees are having fun; this applies to corporate giants and mom-and-pop operations alike. He proposes a culture of business in which the real world, the natural world, is allowed to flourish as well, and in which the planet's needs are addressed. Wall Street may not be ready for Hawken's provocative brand of environmental awareness, but this fine book is full of captivating ideas.
From Publishers Weekly
Hawken ( Growing a Business ) touches on a raw nerve here. How might millions of people live and work in a complex business environment while causing "as little suffering as possible to all and everything around us?" Hawken, no Luddite, believes that "we need a design for business that will ensure that the industrial world as it is presently constituted ceases and is replaced with human-centered enterprises that are sustainable producers." Avoiding stormy rhetoric, Hawken thoughtfully reviews ecological theories and disasters and insists that "ecology offers a way to examine all present economic and resource activities from a biological rather than a monetary point of view." Calling for a restorative economy, he proposes rational, achievable goals: stop "accelerating the rate that we draw down capacity"; refrain from "buying or degrading other people's environment"; and avoid displacing "other species by taking over their habitats." This noteworthy study should kindle debates within the business community.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This important book envisions how the United States can construct "an economics of common good." Rather than worrying about saving the environment, we must worry about how we can encourage businesses to "re-imagine" and "re-invent" themselves as cyclical operations , "cradle to cradle." Hawken advises three broad approaches: observe the waste-equals-food (raw products) principle of nature; change from a carbon to a hydrogen/sunshine-based economy; and create systems that support restorative behavior. Businesses, nations, transnational corporations--all should recognize that the freedom to operate can only be experienced "within the discipline of social responsibility." Every product or by-product can be imagined in its subsequent forms, even before it is made. Restorative businesss can, in turn, teach consumers who don't truly consume. "Value is what we ascribe," asserts Hawken, and that is "by far the most adventurous path to take." Highly recommended.
- Diane M. Fortner, Univ. of Califor nia, Berkeley
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Most helpful customer reviews
91 of 95 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent, especially the second time around
By Krystle, SelfmadeFarmer.com
When I first tried to read this book, I didn't even get past the first chapter. But when I picked it up again almost a year later, I absorbed it like a sponge. Even when I interviewed the president of a sustainable business for my website, SustainableWays.com, I found that the same thing happened to him. The fact of the matter is, this is an excellent book, but it's also somewhat of a pragmatic call to arms. It wasn't till I'd explored and developed my ideas about the environment and resolved to do something about it that I could fully appreciate this book. For someone who's still exploring their position on these issues, Paul Hawken's prescriptions for action will probably seem irrelevant and premature. But if your ideas are ripe and you're ready to put them to work, The Ecology of Commerce is an invaluable resource.
Before I read this book, I used to think that business and the environment were inherently at odds. But then I realized that this doesn't have to be the case. According to Hawken, the problem lies in our economic system's design, and no amount of management or programs is going to change that. In order to make things better, we're going to have to rethink our economic structure, and in that possibility is where Mr. Hawken finds hope. As he so eloquently put it:
"To create an enduring society, we will need a system of commerce and production where each and every act is inherently sustainable and restorative...Just as every action in an industrial society leads to environmental degradation, regardless of intention, we must design a system where the opposite is true, where doing good is like falling off a log, where the natural, everyday acts of work and life accumulate into a better world as a matter of course, not as a matter of conscious altruism." (Hawken, p. xiv)
The Ecology of Commerce is dedicated to envisioning such a system, and discussing how we can get from here to there. The restorative economy contemplated by Hawken may seem like a long shot, but he demonstrates that it IS possible because his approach is to work WITH natural processes, not against them. That not only includes those processes existing in ecosystems, but also the ones present in ourselves, like our unique ability to innovate. You see, what makes these ideas inspiringly hopeful, and what I love most about this book, is the author's willingness not just to acknowledge the way things really are, but also to use them to our advantage. For example, he's smart enough to know that any system, program, or law that asks people to sacrifice happiness, comfort, or convenience ISN'T sustainable because ultimately, it just won't work. "Humans want to flourish and prosper," he explains, "and they will eventually reject any system of conservation that interferes with these desires...[A sustainable society] will only come about through the accumulated effects of daily acts of billions of eager participants" (Hawken, p. xv).
This is the kind of book I'd encourage you to buy if you are even remotely concerned about the state of our environment, which is intimately tangled with our own. On a personal level, it's one of the most motivating books I've ever read--in fact, its concepts form the foundation for my website, SustainableWays.com. My copy is now riddled with highlighter marks, astericks, and dog ears. It's just one of those books you come back to again and again and again, every time learning something new.
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
Foundation Reference for Future of Business Without Waste
By Robert David STEELE Vivas
This is easily one of the top ten books on the pragmatic reality of what Herman Daly calls "ecological economics" (see my list of Environmental Security).
The author excels at painting a holistic view of the realities that are not being addressed by the media or by scholars in anything other than piecemeal fashion.
The bottom line: what we are doing now in the face of accelerating decay (changes and losses that used to take 10,000 years now take three years) is the equivalent of "trying to bail out the Titanic with teaspoons." On page 21-22 the author states that we are using 10,000 days of energy creation every day, or 27 years of energy each day.
This is a practical book. In brief, we can monetize the costs of the decay, we can show people the *real* cost of each product and in this way inspire both boycotts (of wasteful products) and boycotts (Jim Turner's term) of solar energy and long-lasting repairable products.
The author appears to be both pro-business and very wise in seeing that the cannot save the environment by destroying business, but rather must save business so it can save the environment--we must help business understand that doing more with less is what they must do to survive.
The author includes a recurring theme from the literature, that diversity is an option generator, and hence one of the most precious aspects of life on Earth. Diversity is the ultimate source of wealth, and anything that reduces diversity is impoverishing the planet and mankind. In a magnificent turn of phrase, the author states that the loss of a species is the loss of a biological library.
At its root this book is about missing information, needed information, about the urgency of making all inputs, processes, and outputs from corporate production transparent. He quotes Vaclav Havel on page 54 as saying that this is an information challenge, a challenge of too much (or too little) information and not enough actionable intelligence supporting sustainable sensible outcomes.
This is also a financial problem that has not been monetized properly. Although E. O. Wilson takes a crack at the strategic or gross costs of saving the Earth in his book "The Future of Life," this author looks at the retail level and describes the waste inherent in our military system. He reminds me of Derek Leebaert's "The 50 Year Wound" when he notes that the US and the USSR spent over 10 trillion dollars on the Cold War, enough to completely re-make the entire infrastructure of Earth, including all schools. As I myself like to note, for the half trillion we have spent on the war against Iraq, we could instead have given a free $50 cell phone to each of the 5 billion poor people, and changed the planet forever.
The author is compelling in pointing out that conservation alone would save more energy than drilling in Alaska, and that President Reagan not rolled back gasoline mileage expectations, we would today be free of any dependency of Middle Eastern energy.
A good part of the book focuses on the need to eliminate waste, what some call "cradle to cradle" (waste must be fully absorbed of other pieces of the system), and where waste cannot be eliminated, to include the cost of its storage in the price of the product, requiring producers of products to take them back (e.g. refrigerators).
I am inspired by the author's view that not only is technology NOT a complete solution, but that full employment is possible if we REDUCE our excessive acquisition of technology that not only replaces humans, but also consumes energy and produces pollution.
This is an extraordinarily clever and useful book that fully integrates discussions of feedback loops and especially of financial and legal feedback loops that are now misrepresentative. One example the author uses is the GATT demand that there be no discrimination of "like" products based on methods of production. This is code for blocking labor laws by imposing high tariffs on products made by slaves or under sweatshop conditions.
I completely agree with one of the author's most important opinions, that we must end corporate claims of "personality" and the rights of a person. This has had two pernicious effects, the first allowing corporations to dominate the public debate; and the second of exempting managers from legal liability and transparency.
The book emphasized the restoration of human and natural capital as vital foundations for evaluating investments--this would dramatically reduce the financial criteria's dominance and emphasis on short-term returns that do not reflect the cost of natural resources and lost jobs to the future and the community.
Distressingly but importantly, the author notes that a major component of the cost of goods is in advertising, where corporations spend more on advertising than the government spends on all secondary schools, and on packaging, much of which is designed to last vastly longer than the contents.
I especially liked the author's suggestion that insurance costs be included in the price of homes and of gasoline, essentially making universal insurance affordable for all. I also liked his idea for indexing Nations by their sustainability, i.e. Most Sustainable Nation (MSN).
The author ends with a restatement of his three fundamentals:
1) End waste
2) Shift to renewable power (solar and hydro)
3) Create accountability and feedback
Although this book was published in 1993 and the author has now published "Natural Capital" (next on my reading list), I did not discover it until recently and am now very enthused about the author's newest project, the World Index of Social and Environmental Responsibility (WISER). I am certain in my heart that a bottom up Earth Intelligence Network is forming, and that end-user voluntary labor--social networks--are going to place enough information in the hands of individuals to restore participatory democracy and moral communal capitalism. This author is extraordinary in his understanding and his ability to teach adults about reality and the future.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Someone's gotta do it
By A Customer
It seems some are skeptical of Hawken's book because his ideas are too radical and no one will actually adopt his idealist suggestions. But this is the first book I've read that has made concrete suggestions that please both the business world and the environment. Yes it's radical, but the world is soon going to require radical solutions. I loved this book and admire his ingenuity.
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), by Paul Hawken PDF
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), by Paul Hawken EPub
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), by Paul Hawken Doc
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), by Paul Hawken iBooks
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), by Paul Hawken rtf
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), by Paul Hawken Mobipocket
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials), by Paul Hawken Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar