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Economic growth is wrecking the planet. It's the engine driving climate change, pollution, and the shrinking of natural spaces. To save the environment, will we have to shrink the economy? Might this lead to a better society, helping us break free from an obsession with material wealth that only benefits the few? Alessio Terzi takes these questions as a starting point for a journey into the socioeconomic, evolutionary, and cultural origins of our need for growth.

The twenty-first century began optimistically in Latin America. Left-leaning leaders armed with programs to reduce poverty and reclaim national wealth were seeing results—but as the aughts gave way to the teens, they began to fall like dominos. Where did the dreams of this "pink tide" go? Look no further than the original culprits of Latin American disenfranchisement: resource-rich land and unscrupulous extraction.

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.

The Green Start-Up is an essential toolkit for the modern-day entrepreneur. As issues around climate change and environmental impact become more urgent, businesses and start-ups must work harder then every before to operate in a greener, more sustainable way, for the benefit of both themselves and the planet. Environmental trailblazer Juliet Davenport OBE leads us through the most pressing questions facing any company so that we can do just that.

Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we’ve been told we can save the planet. But are individuals really to blame for the climate crisis? Seventy-one per cent of global emissions come from the same hundred companies, but fossil-fuel companies have taken no responsibility themselves. Instead, they have waged a thirty-year campaign to blame individuals for climate change. The result has been disastrous for our planet. In The New Climate War, renowned scientist Michael E. Mann argues that all is not lost.

This book chronicles the creation of Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. Prior to the park's creation, the Everglades was seen as a reviled and useless swamp, unfit for typical recreational or development projects. Park advocates drew on new ideas concerning the value of biota and ecology, the importance of wilderness, and the need to protect habitats, marine ecosystems, and plant life to redefine the Everglades. Using these ideas, the Everglades began to be recognized as an ecologically valuable and fragile wetland.

Jedes Unternehmen hat eine Philosophie, eine Vision und eine prägnante Zielsetzung. Die Entscheidungen und Strategien in einem Unternehmen werden von den vorgegebenen Unternehmenszielen abgeleitet. Primär möchte jedes Unternehmen Gewinn erzielen und eine Unternehmensgeschichte schreiben. Im Laufe der Zeit wurde die Übernahme von sozialer und ökologischer Verantwortung zu einem weiteren fundamentalen Ziel. Grundsätzlich lassen sich Unternehmensziele anhand der drei Zielarten in ökonomische, soziale und ökologische Ziele unterscheiden.

Mache Dich gefasst auf eine erstaunliche Reise. Spannend wie ein Krimi, werfen wir einen völlig neuen Blickwinkel auf die Finanzwelt. Unser destruktives Geldsystem provoziert Finanzkrisen und macht die meisten Menschen sukzessive ärmer, kränker und unzufriedener. Genau dieses Hamsterrad führt paradoxerweise zu immer mehr Wirtschaftswachstum. Wo liegen die Ursachen dieser Tretmühle und wie kann man ausbrechen? Im ersten Teil dieses Hörbuchs erfährst Du alles über die Konstruktionsfehler des Geldsystems.

Franz Alts Modell der ökologischen Wirtschaftsreform basiert weniger auf Verzicht, als auf einem klugen Umgang mit Ressourcen. Alt analysiert die Ergebnisse der ökologischen Steuerreform und zeigt auf, welches volkswirtschaftliche Potenzial in umweltschonenden Technologien verborgen liegt.

Wie wir mit Impact Investing unsere Welt vor dem Untergang bewahren: Wenn es um die Gestaltung der Zukunft geht, stehen sich Nachhaltigkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit meist gegenüber. Doch die Kompromisse aus diesem Spannungsfeld bringen nur wenig Fortschritt. Zu wenig, um genau zu sein - denn unser Planet befindet sich in einem schlechten Zustand: Die Erderwärmung nimmt stetig zu, Ökosysteme befinden sich an kritischen Kipppunkten und die Menschheit schaut ohnmächtig zu. Zum Glück gibt es ein Konzept, welches neue Blickrichtungen und innovative Problemlösungen ermöglicht: Impact Investing.

The conservation of natural resources, like that of any other asset, involves trade-offs. Yet, in a world faced with the harsh realities of climate change, crafting the right environmental policies is an increasingly urgent task. In Conservation, Charles Perrings and Ann Kinzig bring together new research in economics and biodiversity to investigate conservation decisions and the theory behind them.

Las soluciones que ya tenemos y los avances que aún necesitamos En este libro urgente y necesario Bill Gates propone un plan amplio, práctico —y comprensible— para conseguir que el mundo llegue a cero emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero para así evitar una catástrofe climática...

hilanthropist and business leader Dr Andrew Forrest calls on Australia's business sector to invest in clean energy, ocean conservation and closing the inequality gap for the good of the nation. Dr Forrest's series makes the case for business to collaborate with philanthropy to drive positive change on multiple fronts.

Brought to you by Penguin. Your money, and how you invest it, could help solve the global climate crisis. In Investing to Save the Planet, Alice Ross reveals why green investing is an untapped opportunity for you to make a positive impact on the health of the planet and your portfolio. The world...

Zeit zu handeln: Der bekannte "Terra X"-Moderator über die Bewahrung der Artenvielfalt. "Wir befinden uns mitten im sechsten Massenartensterben und erleben den größten Artenschwund seit dem Aussterben der Dinosaurier. Der Mensch hat es ausgelöst und nur er kann ihn stoppen." Der bekannte Naturfilmer und Terra-X-Moderator Dirk Steffens engagiert sich seit Jahren für den Artenschutz, und er fordert drastische Maßnahmen.

The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans - the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia - before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. 

In Cry Me a River, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through the Basin, all the way from Queensland to South Australia. She shows that its plight is environmental but also economic, and enmeshed in ideology and identity. Her essay is both a portrait of the Murray–Darling Basin and an explanation of its woes. It looks at rural Australia and the failure of politics over decades to meet the needs of communities forced to bear the heaviest burden of change.

Sometimes solving climate change seems impossibly complex. This book offers hope. Drawing on the latest research, Mark Jaccard shows us how to recognize the absolutely essential actions (decarbonizing electricity and transport) and policies (regulations that phase out coal plants and gasoline vehicles, carbon tariffs). Rather than feeling paralyzed and pursuing ineffective efforts, we can all make a few key changes in our lifestyles to reduce emissions, to contribute to the urgently needed affordable energy transition in developed and developing countries.

Svolta verde con digressione letteraria: La svolta verde: fonti rinnovabili e meno risorse consumate, l'Istat a sorpresa mostra una nuova Italia, di Corrado Zunino; I verdi così tanti così soli, di Sergio Rizzo; Renzo Piano sui dati dell'Istat: "L'ecologia fa bene anche al business", di Federico Rampini; Don Winslow: confesso, sono il Bardo dei narcos, di Antonello Guerrera.

As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken center stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues involved in understanding global warming and slowing its harmful effects are complex and cross disciplinary boundaries. For example, ecologists see global warming as a threat to ecosystems, utilities as a debit to their balance sheets, and farmers as a hazard to their livelihoods.