The concluding chapter talks about political theory, according to biophysicist Donella Meadows, where people are broken up into blues, reds, greens, and whites.
Blues : mainstream free-marketers
Reds : socialists
Greens : environmentalists
Whites : synthesists (the authors)
organizations that address the responsibilities and opportunities of business:
Rocky Mountain Institute
The Natural Step
The Wuppertal Institute
World Resources Institute
SustainAbility (London)
CERES
Redefining Progress
Product-Life Institute
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (Switzerland)
Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies at the University of Tennessee
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)and Development Program (UNDP)
Institute for Sustainable Design and Commerce at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
Forum for the Future (London)
International Institute for Sustainable Development (Canada)
Businesses for Social Responsbility
Stockholm Environmental Institute
other organizations addressing a range of environmental issues
Ecotrust
Ashoka
Society for Ecological Restoration
Worldwatch Institute
Friends of the River
Environmental Research Foundation
Development Alternatives (Delhi)
Land Stewardship Council
The Just Transition Consortium
Instituto de Ecologia Politica (Santiago, Chile)
International Society of Ecological Economics
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (Lund)
Earth Island Institute
Congress for the New Urbanism
American Farmland Trust
the Energy Foundation
Southwest Organizing Project
RIVM (Holland)
Center for a New American Dream
One Thousand Friends of Oregon
the Cenozoic Society
Indigenous Environmental Network
World Wildlife Fund
IUCN
Friends of the Earth
Some notable partnerships between businesses and environmental groups are Mitsubishi and OK Petroleum.
OK Petroleum is Sweden's largest refiner and retailer of gasoline, who fought for higher carbon taxes to have an advantage in the new market. (p318)
Also notable is the emergence of the community development finance movement. "From small-scale loan funds to start-up banks, and with private and federal support, a whole set of community institutions provide credit in innovative ways at the community level, rebuilding human and social capital in hundreds of towns and cities" (p320).
Examples: Shorebank Corporation and Ecotrust to create ShoreBank Pacific, a commerical bank dedicated to community development and environmental restoration in the coastal and metropolitan Pacific Northwest.
The end
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