How Companies Can Learn to Thrive in the Midst of Chaos—Climate Disruption, Biodiversity Loss, and Social Injustice

Here are some of the key elements:

• Understanding the planetary dilemma—and planning to be a part of the solution, not the problem—the donut economy. healthy ecosystem services, serving humanity
• Focusing on the well-being of the community, its customers, and its employees, in that order
• If they have multiple locations, taking responsibility for those neighborhoods and communities as well
• Transforming the landscapes around them
• Giving their employees multiple reasons to be proud, including by having a larger purpose
• Marrying science and indigenous wisdom in their domain of operation
• Working with their supply chain
• Making their product life-cycles sustainable, reusable, recyclable, and inputs for other products in the circular economy
• Decarbonizing their buildings, and helping convince others to do the same

The world around us is an extended conversation between “upward spirals”—nature in regenerative, procreative modes—and downward spirals toward entropy and disintegration. As nature refreshes and rebuilds, the downward spirals are overcome. Nature’s process becomes the process of replenishing hope.

— Book cover blurb for Paul Krafel’s Seeing Nature (2008)