‘Books and Reviews’
The Biochar Debate
by James Bruges, Chelsea Green 2009 A timely handbook to understand the new debate about biochar – newly prominent as a means of combating climate change. This ancient method used by indigenous peoples in Latin America to maintain soil fertility can also increase its ability to store carbon. However, it is not another magic bullet, and [...]
A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality
A report for the World Future Council by Herbert Girardet & Miguel Mendonça, Green Books Ltd. 2009 A clear, beautiful and intelligent look at our common future from the perspective of members of the World Future Council. Herbert Girardet, the famed British architect, and co-author Miguel Mendonça have produced a richly illustrated and [...]
ECONNED by Yves Smith, Palgrave Macmillan 2010
Review by Hazel Henderson ECONNED is the most deeply researched and empirically validated account of the financial meltdown of 2008-2009 and how its unaddressed causes predict similar crises to come. As a long-time Wall Street veteran, Yves Smith through her influential blog "Naked Capitalism" lucidly explains to her over 250,000 unique [...]
Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity
by Ernst von Weizsacker, Karlson 'Charlie' Hargroves, Michael H. Smith, Cheryl Desha and Peter Stasinopoulos; Earthscan 2009 A Report of the Club of Rome A deeply researched report on the increasing worldwide potentials of energy and water productivity. The authors are renowned experts in this vital field and show in this ook where the [...]
Beyond the Crash! Building an Economic & Ecological Democracy By Hal Logan, 2009
An important contribution to forging solutions to the "global problematique" identified by the Club of Rome and many others in the 1970s. The time is long overdue to apply the policy shifts Logan describes so clearly. – Hazel Henderson For more information visit www.hallogan.com
The Surprising Solution: Creating Possibility in a Swift and Severe World by Bruce Piasecki, Sourcebooks, Inc., 2009
A detailed description of how corporations can ameliorate the growing global environmental crises. Piasecki provides a wealth of information for thoughtful corporate managers and questioning investors. The history of financial movements and corporate evolution alone is worth the read. Even better, Piasecki offers substantive arguments based on [...]
Unplugging the Patriarchy by Lucia René, Crown Chakra Publishing, 2009
A brilliant, esoteric novel with deep wisdom and full of purposeful, impeccable research on the state of human affairs on this planet. This book will become a classic as well as providing a socially and spiritually therapeutic vision for our future. -- Hazel Henderson, ed.
Manufacturing A Better Future for America edited by Richard McCormack, Alliance for American Manufacturing, 2009
One of the most important books of the past two decades. This is the first, most comprehensive study of the social costs of the loss of the manufacturing sector to the US economy since the process of globalization went into high gear in the mid 1980s. The deregulation, "free trade," open borders and privatization policies pursued by President [...]
Earth Capitalism, edited by Patrick U. Petit, Herbert Utz Verlag 2009
Ethical Markets Media appears as a case study for social enterprise in Earth Capitalism, a part of the Initiative for Creating a New Civilization sponsored by the Goi Peace Foundation, reviewed here by Kosmos. You can download the book's table of contents, foreword, preface, and introduction at http://www.utzverlag.de/buecher/40917dbl.pdf.
How to Embed Corporate Responsibility Across Different Parts of Your Company, Ethical Corporation 2009
This report from Ethical Corporation provides specific guidance on incorporating corporate responsibility at all levels within a corporation, whether it be procurement, human resources, communications and marketing, finance and accounting, or facilities, logistics and operations. The report includes findings from in-depth interviews with senior [...]
