The Blue Economy: 10 Years, 100 Innovations, 100 Million JobsThe Blue Economy began as a project to find 100 of the best nature-inspired technologies that could affect the economies of the world, while sustainably providing basic human needs - potable water, food, jobs, and habitable shelter. Starting with 2,231 peer review articles Dr. Pauli and his team found 340 innovations that could be bundled into systems that function the way ecosystems do. These were then additionally reviewed by a group 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 14 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. |
Contents
ONE TIMELESS RESOURCES FOR THE CHALLENGES OF OUR TIMES | 1 |
How to Welcome Waste | 7 |
TWO EMULATING ECOSYSTEMS FOR A BLUE ECONOMY | 13 |
Food Security in Africa | 19 |
Bagasse a Sweet Solution | 26 |
A Stripe of a Different Color | 34 |
Natural Ways to Avoid Fire and Flame | 41 |
FOUR LEADING THE WAY FOR MARKET LEADERS | 47 |
CO2 as a Source of Energy | 171 |
A Method for Methane Capture | 184 |
TWELVE BUILDINGS DESIGNED BY FLOWS | 197 |
The Flow of Sound | 218 |
Housing for All | 225 |
THIRTEEN CASCADING A BLUE ECONOMY | 231 |
EPILOGUE REALIZING A DREAM | 239 |
Overcoming an Unjust Boycott | 245 |
The Downside of the Upside | 62 |
One Innovation Multiple Revenues | 75 |
Pulp to Livelihood | 90 |
A Close Shave | 105 |
A Cooler Way to Cool | 121 |
Painless Injections | 134 |
The Biorefinery of the Future | 154 |
A TABLE OF 100 INNOVATIONS | 251 |
100 INNOVATIONS INSPIRING | 259 |
Substituting Something with Nothing | 271 |
Platform Technologies Accelerating Sustainability | 285 |
Extraordinary Food for Thought | 293 |
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