Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins

Chapter 14

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

Chapter 14

Human Capitalism

The fourteenth chapter discusses the means by which people could be used in the same strategy as natural capital, by mimicking natural patterns, reinvesting in natural capital, service and flow and resource productivity guiding their actions, and uses the example of a Brazilian city called Curitiba. It is a city being re-purposed to foster community by encouraging pedestrian areas, planting gardens throughout the city, and protecting areas with tax refunds to let them remain wooded on private ...