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ecology of commerce 2009-07-15

Reviewer: Barry Tishler

everyone in america needs to know the truth and be a part of the solution...corporation and business my take responsibilty, now!

Misrepresented Condition 2009-03-02

Reviewer: Mary K. Jackman

The text is riddled with colored highlighter, the pages have turned a brownish yellow, the cover has a permanent crease from bending, as have several pages. For easier reading of this valuable book, I'll check it out from the library.

great spine 2009-02-04

Reviewer: Marita A. Haberland

This books came with a great spine and clean pages, for one cent plus shipping this is an amazing value for a wonderful author and book. The bookseller tried sending it to a different address and was persistant about updating with me.

Get it now, no need to think twice 2008-06-17

Reviewer: CA Hofmeyr

I'm pretty sure that after you've read this book, you'll feel the way I do: that this in the one book that everyone in the world should read. If there is a more eye-opening book on the same topic than this one out there, I have yet to read it, but it doesn't matter. That's because this book will do a sufficiently good job at shedding our ignorance about the most important, most dangerous issues of our time. It shows the very roots of the problems surrounding our treatment of the environment, not only from a scientific perspective, but from the perspective of what is fundamentally, intrinsically wrong with how our whole society is arranged, on a multitude of levels (not only commerce as the title implies). It shows exactly why inaction has been the status quo until now. It also shows the real nightmare-inducing dangers of continuing business as usual regarding how we treat the environment, on a scientific level. This doesn't mean that it's a book purposely architected to incite fear, uncertainty and doubt. It is simply one of the most profound, honest, right-to-the-point accounts of the problem facing us.

How do I know this? I don't. Therefore I'll now set off on a mission to read all of the other books by Amory Lovins and Paul Hawken, and possibly other books of the same caliber and on the same topic, and then decide if I want to revise this review, but I'm rather confident I won't have to :-)

I don't really want to allude to the content of the book in further detail, since anything not akin to stellar praise would not do it justice. What I can merely tell you is that you won't be disappointed by reading it. In fact, you will be enthralled by coming across a such an excellent verbalization of what has been bothering you all along.

Always timely and smart 2008-04-25

Reviewer: Mornanee

Paul Hawken's book "The Ecology of Commerce" is one of those books one never forgets because it changes the way you think. I first read this book back when it came out in 1994 and just re-read it.

The author doesn't squawk about how bad humans are, but rather offers a sensible, deliberate perspective on how we can change our economic systems to accommodate our relationship with the rest of Nature.

To avoid being an ignorant, knee-jerk reacting activist ( or at least deciding to go down that route) read this book!