[Scpg] The Blue Economy Available at The Book Den, Downtown SB

[Margie Bushman, Coordinator, SBCC Center for Sustainability]

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.

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Emacs!



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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