Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything
from extracting water
from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows
into a plant
bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to
get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while
keeping and even improving our high standard of living
I feel it when I see reviews or
get emails
from people who say they literally couldn't put down Take Back Tomorrow, when someone reads The Somniscient late
into the night and then is compelled to start reading again first thing in the morning, when people tell me they've been
kept up until 3 o'clock in the morning because they couldn't
bear to stop reading, when someone who listens to audio books only in the car says she broke her rule and listened to LC Kane's reading of The Girl at the End of the World throughout her day because she HAD to find out what happened next...