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Publisher
Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Transforming climate finance and green investment with blockchains establishes and analyzes the connection between this new technology and global efforts to combat climate change. Realizing the benefits of blockchain can only come through a variety of alterations: the adoption of smart contracts, for instance, changes in governance and regulatory structures, and global agreements on privacy issues. Each chapter contains a "problem statement" that...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Klein argues that climate change isn't just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It's an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Klein ... builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies"--
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Earth is in overshoot. The cumulative impact of 8 billion humans combined with the relentless pursuit of economic growth has stressed the planet beyond carrying capacity. This richly illustrated book describes our current predicament and identifies alternative economic pathways toward a post-growth future."--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With humor and compassion, Mama earth provides an inspiring introduction to the concepts of environmental economics, sustainability and new paths to healthier communities and protecting natural resources, all while attaining a more profitable bottom line.
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this extraordinary journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy meets the people on the front lines of the climate crisis, showing how the struggle to respond is already reshaping the modern world - shattering communities, shaking up global business, and propelling a groundbreaking wave of cutting-edge innovation.
Author
Publisher
Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"What does the future hold for the Midwest? A vast stretch of fertile farmland bordering one of the largest concentrations of fresh water in the world, the Midwestern US seems ideally situated for the coming challenges of climate change. But it also sits at the epicenter of a massive economic collapse that many of its citizens are still struggling to overcome. The question of what the Midwest is (and what it will become) is nothing new. As Phil Christman...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There are personal costs too. For the majority of people on the planet, life is becoming increasingly stressful. We have less time for friends and family and we face mounting pressures...
Author
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing the course of the climate and nature crises, despite a growing number of pledges, policies and summits, little ever seems to change. Nature is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate. We remain on course...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The left and right -- the business community and environmentalists, bankers and activists -- must together reclaim capitalism and force profits to align with the planet. A warming climate and a general distrust of Wall Street has opened a new cultural divide: anti-market critics from Naomi Klein to the Pope target capitalism itself as a root cause of climate change, while neo-conservatives who diminish the climate threat are in favor of market fundamentalism....
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Why is it that the things we value most--from frontline nurses to the natural environment to keeping children well fed and educated--seem of little importance to economic markets? This bold, deeply researched manifesto offers a needed action plan to transform market values into human values." -- inside front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Fast Company Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An innovation agenda for turning our biggest global societal challenges into opportunities to thrive. The future will be better than you think. Thriving shows how innovation can regenerate nature, society, and the economy by taking us from degradation to restoration of ecosystems, from depletion to renewal of resources, from disparity to responsibility in communities, from disease to revitalization of health, from disconnection to rewiring through...
Author
Publisher
Windmill Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Our planet is in trouble. But how can we reverse the current crisis and create a sustainable future? The answer is: DEGROWTH. Less is More is the wake-up call we need. By shining a light on ecological breakdown and the system that's causing it, Hickel shows how we can bring our economy back into balance with the living world and build a thriving society for all. This is our chance to change course, but we must act now.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the twentieth century. Marx's ecological critique of capitalism, however, revives in the Anthropocene against dominant productivism and monism. Investigating new materials published in the complete works...
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal." -Publishers Weekly, (starred review) "Saito's clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone . . . are sure to win over open-minded readers who understand the dire nature of our global. . . . A cogently structured anti-capitalist approach to the climate crisis." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Why, in...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
" In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity, and famine-with apocalyptic consequences for humanity. Simon optimistically countered...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Thinking about climate change, many of us picture the catastrophic effects that the science has shown are sure to come if we don't act, and we often hear that global temperatures are rising at increasing and alarming rates. While those trends of rising temperatures will certainly bring about catastrophe if allowed to continue, they are also already having devastating effects right now. This book will focus on the economic implications of heat events...
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Series
Publisher
Polity Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Profit getting more out of something than you put into it is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems. As civilization developed, we found more and more ways of extracting surplus value from the earth, often deploying brutally effective methods to discipline people to do the work needed. Historian Mark Stoll explains how capitalism supercharged this process...
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