Eco Tech

About the author

TROND IS A FUTURIST, INNOVATOR AND SYSTEMIC RISK EXPERT WHO HAS EXPLORED THE DISRUPTIVE FORCES SHAPING OUR WORLD TODAY, INCLUDING GEOPOLITICS, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, CLIMATE CHANGE, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING.

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Reviews

“A powerful statement from a systems thinker who, navigating future challenges, finds investment potential in the equilibrium between our ecology, economy and communities.”

Alan Moore, author, craftsman, innovator, Founder, Design School for Beautiful Business

“The eco-tech revolution, which now needs to be driven forward at a scale and a speed that few even begin to comprehend, is absolutely necessary to the survival of humankind into the next century. But it is absolutely not sufficient. With his deep knowledge and decades of first-hand experience, Trond Arne Undheim helps his readers navigate their way through this fascinating and increasingly controversial territory.”

Jonathon Espie Porritt, 2nd Baronet, CBE, environmentalist, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future

“This important book strikes a necessary balance between economics and regeneration on the path towards a flourishing future.”

John R. Ehrenfeld, author of The Right Way To Flourish, and former Director of the MIT Program on Technology, Business, and Environment

“This remarkable book looks beyond policies and technology to the wider range of changes in individual conduct, and in the organization of society that may be needed to meet the existential challenge of climate change and of the destruction of nature and imagines a range of outcomes.”

James G. Wilson, Lord Moran, Chairman and Managing Partner, Source2

“Investing in an ecologically sustainable future can be immensely rewarding for the investor and for the planet. In a complex and rapidly evolving sector, EcoTech contributes to investor understanding of this vitally important topic.”

Bruce Usher, Professor, Columbia Business School, author of Investing in the Era of Climate Change

Table of Contents

List of Figures and interviews

Acknowledgements

About the author

Introduction

Chapter 1. Scenarios 2050

Chapter 2. A Regenerative Investment Framework

Chapter 3. Insufficient Non-financial Commitments

Chapter 4. The State of Play in Eco-investments

Chapter 5. From Deep Ecology via Industrial ecology to the Regeneration fallacy

Chapter 6. Failures of Dominant Actors

Chapter 7. Re-centralizing the self as an environmental agent

Chapter 8. Energy Is Not The Issue

Chapter 9. Which Game Changers really matter?

Chapter 10. Is Gigascale the ideal?

Chapter 11. Eco-flavors: CSR, eco-efficiency, and carbon accounting

Chapter 12. Carbon Capture Illusions

Chapter 13. Eco-effective Commandments

Chapter 14. Good future directions

Chapter 15. Conclusion: the eco-efficient past, our eco-effective present, and regenerative futures

Index

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