<p>This groundbreaking book reveals how today's global businesses can be both environmentally responsible and highly profitable.</p>

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

Business & Money

Amory Lovins

PAUL HAWKEN

L. Hunter Lovins

Economics

US Green Building Council

<p>Most businesses still operate according to a world view that hasn't changed since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Then, natural resources were abundant and labor was the limiting factor of production. But now, there's a surplus of people, while natural capital natural resources and the ecological systems that provide vital life-support services is scarce and relatively expensive. In this groundbreaking blueprint for a new economy, three leading business visionaries explain how the world is on the verge of a new industrial revolution. Natural Capitalism describes a future in which business and environmental interests increasingly overlap, and in which companies can improve their bottom lines, help solve environmental problems and feel better about what they do all at the same time. Citing hundreds of compelling stories from a wide array of sectors, the book shows how to realize benefits both for today's shareholders and for future generations and how, by firing the unproductive tons, gallons, and kilowatt-hours, it's possible to keep the people who will foster the innovation that drives future improvement.</p>

Natural Capitalism

Little. Brown and Company

Eunice Anderson brings a commonsense approach to solving the nations energy problems

Energy Unbound: A Fable for America's Future

Science & Math

Amory B. Lovins

Technology

Random House, Inc.

Oil, gas, and coal now provide most of the world's energy. But burning these fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide gas (CO2). By holding in the heat like a blanket, CO2 changes the flow of heat in the atmosphere and can ultimately change the earth's climate. Many scientsts believe that if the rate of burning fossil fuels continues to rise, those climatic changes could disrupt agriculture and trigger famines within our lifetime. Within a century, the sea level could rise enough for rowboats to dock at the steps of the U.S. Capitol.The climatologists assumed massive and increasing use of fossil fuel because most energy planners said it was necessary. The choice, they claimed, was between unpredictable climate shifts, the costs and risks of nuclear power, or energy scarcity and continuing Third World poverty. But the four internationally-known authors of Least-Cost Energy: Solving the CO2 Problem, examining this conventional wisdom afresh, find it badly out of date.It is simply not true that prosperity and global equity require ever-increasing use of fossil (or nuclear) fuels. Newly developed technologies can provide the same energy services more cheaply by wringing more work out of our energy and by harnessing the renewable energy flows of sun, wind, water, and biomass wastes. This "least-cost energy strategy" - one that seeks to meet society's needs at the lowest possible economic cost, as would occur in a competitive free market - would make it unnecessary and indeed uneconomic to burn the fossil fuels that threaten the world's climate.

Least-Cost Energy: Solving the CO2 Problem

Florentin Krause

Wilfrid Bach

Brick House Pub. Co.

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