The Great Pivot: Creating Meaningful Work to Build a Sustainable Future - Softcover

Burt, Justine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935994344 ISBN 13: 9781935994343

Verlag: Bivens & Jensen Publishing, 2019

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"The financial sector is really the key to realizing the value of a sustainable future. Justine Burt's book provides proofs of concept about how entrepreneurs, non-profits and government agencies secured funding to create green jobs. This book will help scale up the use of these financial tools to disrupt business as usual and create the future we need."
- Jigar Shah, President and Co-Founder, Generate Capital

"Articulating the job creation benefits of the green economy is critical for policymakers. The Great Pivot highlights many of those jobs, and I was thrilled to see jobs created through food waste reduction included."
- Dana Gunders, author of NRDC report "Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40% of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill" and the book WasteFree Kitchen

"At this time of unprecedented change and opportunity, the world needs a roadmap for how to decarbonize and dematerialize our economy as fast as possible. We have a few short years to avert the worst effects of climate change - and this compelling book has specific, tangible projects for people who want to plug in and get to work."
- Vanessa Warheit - 350.org community organizer

Reseña del editor:

American society currently faces a crisis in the world of work between outsourcing, automation, the gig economy, and low levels of employee engagement. At the same time, our transportation systems and means for producing energy, materials, and food are degrading life support systems on Earth. The solution, however, is simple: we must abandon “business as usual” and draw up a blueprint for creating meaningful jobs that will also dramatically reduce waste and restore the natural world.The Great Pivot is that blueprint. It details 30 projects for developing advanced energy communities, low-carbon mobility systems, a circular economy, a rejuvenated food production system, and restoring nature. It starts, of course, with people. Americans want work that gives their lives purpose and meaning. First, however, we must ensure that everyone has shelter, food, and access to affordable healthcare and childcare, especially those lower on the socioeconomic ladder. By doing so, those securing meaningful work for the first time will be able to pull themselves up financially, while those currently working disappointingly unfulfilling jobs will jump to more meaningful employment, whether starting their own business or joining an existing team. The financial sector also wants more sustainability projects to invest in. By harnessing Silicon Valley’s startup culture of disrupting lumbering, inefficient industries, the Great Pivot will create both more effective and efficient jobs and manifold investment opportunities. Make no mistake: the investment needed to kickstart a sustainable future is considerable, but this money will go directly into the pockets of the millions of people doing this meaningful work, thereby providing the necessities of a stable, middle class life. With this bold vision we will not only save the environment, but in the process of creating millions of meaningful jobs, we will save ourselves. A sustainable future needs us to envision it, and it needs us to make it happen. It’s time to make the Great Pivot.

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• Verlag: Bivens & Jensen Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1935994344
• ISBN 13: 9781935994343
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292