The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability [Paperback]

“The first important book of the 21st century. It may well revolutionize the relationship between business and the environment.”
—Don Falk, Executive Director, Society for Ecological Restoration

The Ecology of Commerceis the provocative national bestseller that addresses the necessity of merging good business practices with common sense environmental concerns. Nearly two decades after its initial publication, this controversial work by Paul Hawken has been revised and updated, arguing why business success and sustainable environmental practices need not—and, for the sake of our planet, must not—be mutually exclusive any longer. An essential work, Hawken’sThe Ecology of Commercebelongs on the bookshelf of every concerned citizen—alongsideCapitalism at the Crossroadsby Stuart Hart and Al Gore’sEarth in the BalanceandAn Inconvenient Truth.

The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken'sEcology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned argument—that business both causes the most egregious abuses of the environment and, crucially, holds the most potential for solving our sustainability probleló