A Finer Future (Web PDF) von L. Hunter Lovins

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.

Foreword 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

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.

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 .