INTRODUCING THE BLUE ECONOMY

The Blue Economy – 10 Years, 100 Innovations, 100 Million Jobs.




This Special Series presents recipes for breakthrough solutions changing world economy in many domains. 

It will further change your way of looking at nature and optimal economic processes. 

And it engages you, dear reader, as an agent of change - by passing on the knowledge!

 

If you simply pick up and share - for example - the Coffee-Fungi story, you can take all coffee farmers in the world out of poverty.

This simple solution has been known for a decade. it was even presented at the world exposition in the year 2000. But no institution takes appropriate care of replicating it. Now YOU know. The link to the article empowers you to be a sustainability consultant by sharing this recipe with everyone. Including farmer collectives, producers, fair trade networks, retail companies.

 

Our special series about the Blue Economy and Eco Tipping-Points each unveil 100 solutions you would never magine.

It's all here! Upgrade yourself, Enjoy, Apply the Dream and - Accelerate Change!  Everyone a changemaker!

 

This is the Shoal in practice. The missing link between the innovators and the people - through the people.

 

Gunter Pauli tells you more about the Blue Economy in Ode Magazine @ www.paradigm-pubs.com/sites/www.paradigm-pubs.com/files/files/BuildingBlueEconomy.pdf

 

ABOUT THE BLUE ECONOMY

The Blue Economy began as a project to find one hundred of the best nature-inspired technologies that could effect the economies of the world, while sustainably providing basic human needs - potable water, food, jobs and healthful shelter.

Starting with 2,231 peer review articles Dr. Pauli found 340 innovations that could be bundled into systems that function the way ecosystems do.

These were then additionally reviewed by a team 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 fourteen 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. Following are "in-a-nutshell" descriptions of the chapters with very brief examples.

Please see the publisher's website for further details.

 

Chapters:

One - Timeless Resources for the Challenges of Our Times

Two - Emulating Ecosystems for a Blue Economy

Three - Nature's Resource Efficiency

Four - Leading the Way for Market Leaders

Five - Nature's MBA (Mastery of Brilliant Adaptations)

Six - Cascading Models, Multiple Cash Flows

Seven - Spinning a Silken Tale

Eight - From the Mighty to the Minuscule

Nine - A Rainbow of Possibilities

Remaking Coloration and Cosmetics

Ten - Envisioning New Energy Options

Eleven - True Gold: Mines as Platforms of Healing

Twelve - Buildings Designed by Flows

Thirteen - Cascading a Blue Economy

Epilogue - Realizing A Dream

Appendix 1  - A Table of 100 Innovations Inspired by Nature

Appendix 2  -  100 Innovations Inspiring Competitive Business Models



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