Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Paul Hawken, L. Hunter Lovins
Language: English
Pages: 416
ISBN: 0316353000
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This groundbreaking book reveals how today's global businesses can be both environmentally responsible and highly profitable.
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asset. While you sit at your desk, your power-plant-onwheels is sending -plus kilowatts of electricity back to the grid. You’re automatically credited for this production at the real-time price, which is highest in the daytime. Thus your second-largest, but previously idle, household asset is now repaying a significant fraction of its own lease fee. It wouldn’t require many people’s taking advantage of this deal to put all coal and nuclear power plants out of business, because ultimately the
recognizes the critical interdependency between the production and use of human-made capital and the maintenance 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 S 39 R 26476 01 p001-169 r4ah 9/10/99 5:49 PM Page 4 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 S 38 R 39 N AT U R A L C A P I TA L I S M and supply of natural capital. The traditional definition of capital is
Interface/Holland’s engineer Jan Schilham, applying methods learned from Singaporean efficiency expert Eng Lock Lee,6 cut the design’s pumping power to only horsepower — a percent or -fold energy saving — while reducing its capital cost and improving its performance in every respect. The new specifications required two changes in design. First, Schilham chose to deploy big pipes and small pumps instead of the original design’s small pipes and big pumps. Friction falls as nearly the fifth
Michael Corbett put it, “You know you are on the right track when your solution for one problem accidentally solves several others. You decide to minimize automobile use to conserve fossil fuels, for example, and realize that this will reduce noise, conserve land by minimizing streets and parking, multiply 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 S 39 R 26476 01 p001-169 r4ah 9/10/99 5:50 PM Page 124 124 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
F WA S T E H U M A N H I S T O RY H A S P R O D U C E D ” 1 was Taiichi Ohno (–). Ohno-sensei was the father of the Toyota Production System, which is the conceptual foundation of the world’s premier manufacturing organization, and one of the pivotal innovators in industrial history. His approach, though adopted successfully by Toyota, remains rare in Japan. However, it has shown remarkable results in America and elsewhere in the West, and is poised for rapid expansion now that it has