Green Options » rewealth http://greenoptions.com/tag/rewealth Posts tagged 'rewealth' Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:52:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en It’s Time for reWealth! A Book Destined to Change the 21st Century for the Better http://sustainablog.org/2008/12/03/its-time-for-rewealth-a-book-destined-to-change-the-21st-century-for-the-better/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/12/03/its-time-for-rewealth-a-book-destined-to-change-the-21st-century-for-the-better/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:52:11 +0000 John Ivanko http://sustainablog.org/2008/12/03/its-time-for-rewealth-a-book-destined-to-change-the-21st-century-for-the-better/

We need to start using the R-words more and D-words less.

More restoration, revitalization, renovation, and remediation, and much less development, depletion, or degradation — those directives of the 20th Century that have wrought incredible damage on both the planet and its inhabitants.

That’s the message delivered by author and international speaker, Storm Cunningham, in his latest book, reWealth! It’s his follow-up to the acclaimed Restoration Economy, the first book to document the eight giant, fast-growing industries in the “restoration economy” that are renewing our natural and built environments.

Given the widespread destruction of healthy ecosystems and therefore, healthy integrated communities, we need to move beyond the status quo of simply conservation or “sustainability” to establish both the process and program of building reWealth in the restoration economy, advises Cunningham.

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