The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials)

This book is fantastic. Read it! Paul Hawken has created a masterpiece and will probably change your worldview. You won't be disappointed

Amazing

Lucid, devastating, empowering, inspiring. A lot to claim of a small book but I will absolutely be recommending it to those around me and have already lent my copy to a colleague. I'm not sure I entirely agree with Hawken's proposals for green taxation as I tend to look for feedback in such systems and taxation on products that are not supposed to do us good (cigarettes, alcohol, aviation fuel...) don't seem to have had much impact on the population and in fact make the government the beneficiary of such activities reducing their desire to curb them long-term. But apart from that his call to business to look for cyclic, restorative models and stop externalising the costs of the environmental damage they do makes good business sense to me and that gives it some chance of actually permeating into culture. Hence, many years after its first publication, a growing number of companies are directly or indirectly responding to his call. Marvellous.

Ce livre est un formidable outil pour se lancer dans l'ère suivante qui espérons-le sera moins destructrice que les deux précédentes. Autrement, l'auteur fournit un style assez dynamique couronné de très belles statistiques ! Merci pour cette lecture.

One of the most impactful books I've ever read. Starts out with what seems like a little bit of "pie in the sky" wishful thinking, but then it quickly delves more deeply into a very well-detailed exploration of the issues and proposed solutions. HIGHLY recommended!