A Finer Future - by L Hunter Lovins & Stewart Wallis & Anders Wijkman & John Fullerton (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

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.

AWARDS

• SILVER 2020 Eric Zencey Prize
• SILVER 2018 Nautilus Book Awards: Ecology & Environment
• BRONZE 2018 Foreword INDIES: Business & Economics

From the Back Cover

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

About the Author

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.