Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
AWARDS
- SILVER 2020 Eric Zencey Prize
- SILVER 2018 Nautilus Book Awards: Ecology & Environment
- BRONZE 2018 Foreword INDIES: Business & Economics
Table of ContentsForeword by Kate Raworth
Acknowledgements
Prologue: The Parable of the Caterpillar
Introduction: Welcome to the Anthropocene
Section 1: It'll Do Til the Mess Arrives
1. Imagine
2. The Story That Got Us In Trouble
3. Tell Me A Better Story: Regenerative Economics
Section 2: Buying Time to Fix the Mess
4. Everyone Wins: The Circular Economy
5. Building A Better World
6. Going Places: Efficiency in Vehicles
Section 3: Transformation: The Plot Thickens
7. Moving Money from Harm to Healing
8. Corporate Transformation
9. Growing a Finer Future
10. Triumph of the Sun: The Mother of All Disruptions
Section 4: Systemic Change: Policies to Get Us Out of the Mess
11. Level the Playing Field
12. Meet Basic Needs for All
13. Confront the Myth of Growth
14. A Values Shift
15. Reinventing Governance
16. Bringing It Home
Section 5: A Finer Future Is Possible
Notes
Index
About the Authors
About New Society Publishers
