Environmental debt : the hidden costs of a changing global economy /

In this book the author, an environmental activist and social entrepreneur exposes the link between our financial and environmental crises. For decades, politicians and business leaders alike told the American public that today's challenge was growing the economy, and that environmental protec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larkin, Amy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York City : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • A framework for 21st century commerce
  • Environmental debt
  • The quest for true profits
  • Courage: high risk, high reward
  • Moving beyond fossil fuels: the public, private, and individual sectrors
  • Extreme weather and the food/water/energy nexus
  • The cutting edge of innovation: in the lab, the executive suite, the halls of Congress, and the patent office
  • Why don't we? : a transition agenda.