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Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi: Designing the Future of Business Through Nature, Genius, and Compassion

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More and more businesses are making real progress in the quest for ecological and social sustainability, while maintaining or improving profit. Good practical methodologies for this have been developed.

This book provides a progress report on the methodologies, progress and the forward agenda. The short (9 pages plus charts) Introduction by Ray Anderson of Interface Inc provides a brilliant and inspiring summary of what can be achieved and what is involved in achieving it.

Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi is one of the most informative, comprehensive and inspiring works on how business and industry must think and can act to help create a healthy, just and sustainable society worldwide. It is the first book to link business decision-making and strategies for action to a framework and set of scientific principles that can lead to true sustainability. Masterfully written and based on solid theory backed up by impressive case studies, Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi is a `must-read' for decision-makers in industry, government, and civil society and should be required reading in all business, economics, and engineering education.

Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi is just what the doctor ordered: smart, detailed, in-the-trenches case studies of how companies align sustainability with business success, along with the scientific and societal rationale that amplify these initiatives‚ importance. There may be no better set of principles to guide today's companies through tomorrow's challenging markets. I highly recommend it.