Natural Capitalism Creating the next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken

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Natural Capitalism : Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

OUTLINE

Chapter 1

The Next Industrial Revolution

I . Conventional Capitalism

II . Capitalism as if Living Systems Mattered

III . Resource Productivity

IV . Biomimicry

V . Service and Flow

VI . Investing in Natural Capital

I . Conventional Capitalism Chapter 2

Reinventing the Wheels : Hypercars and Neighborhood

I . On the Road to Efficiency

II . Making a Light Car Safe

III . The Economics of Ultralighting

IV . Beyond the Iron Age

V . Beyond Efficiency : The Best Access at

the least Cost

Chapter 3

Waste Not

I . Waste

A . Solid waste

B . Liquid waste

C . Causes of Waste

D . How much waste

II . People as Waste

A . Forms of Waste People

B . Effects in the Society

III . Waste in the System

IV . Common solution

Chapter 4

Making the World

I . More Energy-Efficient Manufacturing

II . Designs

III . New Technologies

IV . Controls

V . Corporate Culture

VI . New Processes

VII . Saving Materials

VIII . Born-again Materials

Chapter 5

Building Blocks

I . Green both ways

II . Rewarding what we want

III . Comparing people , energy , and other costs of running an office building

IV . Transforming commercial buildings

V . Recycled buildings , materials , and land

VI . Homebuilding joins the revolution

VII . Appliances

VIII . Redesigning community

Chapter 6

Tunneling Through the Cost Barrier

I . Improving Mindware

II . Optimize Without Compromise

III . More Costs Less

IV . Seeing the Obvious Sooner

V . Optimizing the System

VI . Thinking Backward

VII . Doing Things in the Right

VIII . Solving for Pattern

Chapter 7

Muda , Service and Flow

I . Mistakes which require rectification

II . Production of items no one wants

III . Processing steps that are not needed

A . movement of employees and transport of goods from one place to

another without any purpose

B . Groups of people remaining idle because an upstream activity has

not delivered on time

C . Goods and services which don 't meet the needs of the customer

Chapter 8

Capital Gains

I . Ecosystem Services

II . Environment as source of quality

III . Natural Capital

IV . Substitutes or Complements

V . Limiting Factors

VI . Investing in Natural Capital

Chapter 9

Nature 's Filaments

I . Substituting Bytes and Brains for

II . Combining Savings Systematically

III . New Materials , New Designs

IV . Closing Materials Loops

V . Alternative Fibers and further Innovations

CHAPTER 10

Food for Life

I . Industrialization of farming

II . Soil and climate

III . Nature as model and mentor

CHAPTER 11

Aqueous Solutions

I . The Efficiency Solution

II . Agriculture

III . Landscaping

IV . Buildings

A . Toilets

B . Showers

C . Sinks

V . Other Indoor and system Savings

VI . Technology Plus Behaviour

VII . Water-Quality Benefits

VIII . Industry

IX . Recovering Rainwater and Gray water

X . Recovering Water from local Biological Treatment Plants

XI . Implementation

Chapter 12

Climate

I . From Space , the Earth is Blue because it is covered mainly by Water

II . Reframing the Climate Debate

III . In God We Trust All Others Bring Data

IV . What if Efficiency is not Enough

V . From the Firm to the Nation

VI . Energy Prices , National Competitiveness , and the Market People

VII . Almost Everyone Wins

VIII . Protecting the...