by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Social Business and the Future of Capitalism Muhammad Yunus PublicAffairs 2008 Economics professor and winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize says he originally became involved in poverty not as a policy-maker, scholar, or researcher, but because poverty was all around...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Jonathan Porritt Earthscan, 2005 Porritt is chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission; former chairman of the Ecology Party (now the Green Party); a former director of the Friends of the Earth UK; and currently runs the Forum for the Future, which aims to...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing From Crisis to Sustainability, by James Gustave Speth, Yale University Press, 2008 James Gustave Speth, Co-founder of the NRDC, Yale University dean, and former White House advisor has written a great book that everyone...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster: Advances in Ecological Economics, Peter A Victor; Edward Elgar Pub (November 30, 2008) Managing without Growth, contrasts the idea of genuine progress with economic growth. Progress is about creating a world...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jan 7, 2011
Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy, by Gar Alperovitz, published by Wiley & Co. There are voices speaking the words the world needs to hear. One belongs to political scientist Gar Alpervoitz. Alpervoitz has not hesitated to face up to the...
