For those interested in
buying the newly published"The Blue Economy"
book by Gunter Pauli, featured at the "From
Green Jobs to Building the Blue Economy" event at Santa Barbara
City College, it is now available at Santa Barbara's oldest independent
bookstore, The Book Den, in downtown Santa Barbara, located at 15
E. Anapamu Street.
So great to support local business for all the good reasons, but also, at
this moment, The Blue Economy is not even available on
Amazon.com!
Eric Kelly, owner of the Book Den, has also carried many of the Natural
Building authors that Santa Barbara Permaculture Network has sponsored
with book tours in the past. We thank him for that.
Thursday, May 6th, is another 1st Thursday cultural event in downtown
SB. The Book Den always participates, so stop in and say hello,
and thank for supporting with authors like Ianto Evans, Catherine Wanek,
Shay Solomon, Nader Khalili, others, and now, Gunter Pauli, and his newly
released book, the Blue Economy; 10 Years, 100 Innovations, 100
Million Jobs.
The Blue Economy – 10 Years,
100 Innovations, 100 Million
Jobs
The Blue Economy began
as a project to find one hundred of the best nature-inspired technologies
that could effect the economies of the world, while sustainably providing
basic human needs - potable water, food, jobs and healthful shelter.
Starting with 2,231 peer review articles Dr. Pauli found 340 innovations
that could be bundled into systems that function the way ecosystems do.
These were then additionally reviewed by a team of corporate strategists,
expert financiers, and public policy makers. Further meetings with
entrepreneurs, financial analysts, business reporters and corporate
strategy academics reduced the list to one hundred. These are listed in
an appendix of The Blue Economy.
Many of the innovations inspired by nature are so interesting by
themselves it is easy to forget that the key to the book is their
integration with real world economies as ways to provide sustainable
benefits to the commons. The Blue Economy is presented in fourteen
chapters, each of which investigates an aspect of the world's economies
and offers a series of innovations capable of making aspects of those
economies sustainable.
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we must create new leaves, in new directions, in order to grow." -
Anonymous