‘Books and Reviews’
The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy
“At last, a comprehensive, hands-on guide to all the viable cooperative community-building options inherent in the great transition to cleaner, greener, more equitable economies. In this 21st century, emerging Solar Age, we are seeing all the many examples of the ways humans can help in reshaping societies and regenerating the Earth for our [...]
WAR TIME by Mary L. Dudziak, Oxford University Press, 2012
WAR TIME by Mary L. Dudziak, Oxford University Press, 2012 Review by Alan F. Kay The book introduction initiates various ways that ideas about time affect our understanding of war -- followed by chapters that specifically examine how war and time are imaged. We imagine the start and end of wars are pretty clearly bound in time, but American [...]
Green Economics Institute
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Book Review: Greedy Bastards, By Dylan Ratigan
Book Review by Hazel Henderson: Greedy Bastards, By Dylan Ratigan As a frequent watcher of the Dylan Ratigan TV show daily from New York on MSNBC, I am hardly an unbiased reviewer. In fact, I enjoy Dylan's frank truth-telling after the daily bromides on CNBC, his former employer which he quit in disgust. As a former financial reporter for [...]
Quest for Exceptional Leadership: Mirage to Reality by Ravi Chaudhry
Quest for Exceptional Leadership: Mirage to Reality by Ravi Chaudhry Indian business leader Ravi Chaudhry has written the best handbook for corporate executives in years. His call for exceptional leadership is based on the new realities of our multi-polar world beyond the trite formulas of the business and financial media. Chaudhry is precise, [...]
Book Review: ‘Reinventing Fire’ by Hazel Henderson
For over 35 years, the world has counted on veteran energy expert Amory Lovins to guide humans through the great transition from the fossil-fueled Industrial Era to today's Information Age and beyond. Read the book review on Seeking Alpha...
“The Responsible Business: Reimagining Sustainability & Success,” by Carol Sanford
Book Review by Hazel Henderson "The Responsible Business: Reimagining Sustainability & Success," by Carol Sanford, Jossey Bass 2011, is a deeper, more satisfying look at business from the inside by a seasoned management consultant. Sanford's methods are holistic and based on systems thinking, unusual for most companies striving to please [...]
Book Review by Hazel Henderson: Treasure Islands and Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!
Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens, by Nicholas Shaxson, Palgrave Macmillan, NYC 2011 Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! by Ralph Nader, Seven Stories Press, NYC 2009 In Treasure Islands, author Nicholas Shaxson digs deeper than any previous research on the size and shape of global finance and the [...]
Book Review: David G. Victor’s ‘Global Warming Gridlock’
Review by Hazel Henderson, originally published on SeekingAlpha.com This book, "Global Warming Gridlock," Cambridge University Press 2011, by a deeply knowledgeable expert on all aspects of climate change, is an indispensible roadmap for the global debate about how to move beyond the Kyoto Protocol's expiration in 2012. For full review, [...]
Book Review: ‘The Sixth Wave’
Review by Hazel Henderson, originally published on SeekingAlpha.com The Sixth Wave by James Bradfield Moody and Bianca Nogrady, Vintage Books Australia 2010 Using the analogy to the famous waves of technological change modeled by Nikolai Kondratiev, these authors, both Australian experts, look at the global technological future. The tragic [...]
