Earth for All
A Survival Guide for Humanity
The book details the findings of our initiative and details how we can steer humanity away from ecological and social catastrophe and is the result of collaboration between the 21st century Transformational Economics Commission and systems analysts and modelling teams.
By Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jørgen Randers, Johan Rockström and Per Espen Stoknes.
Published: 2022
Languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Swedish
Audiobook: Yes
Tomorrow's Economy
A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth
A balance sheet for the planet: How we can achieve healthy growth—more regenerative than wasteful, instilling equity rather than exacerbating inequalities.
Tomorrow's Economy reframes the hot-button issue of economic growth. Going beyond the usual pro-growth versus anti-growth debate, Stoknes calls for healthy growth. Healthy economic growth is more regenerative than wasteful, repairs problems rather than greenwashing them, and restores equity rather than exacerbating inequalities.
Published: 2022
Languages: English, Italian, Norwegian
Audiobook: Yes
What We Think about When We Try Not to Think about Global Warming
Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action
Why does knowing more mean believing―and doing―less? A prescription for change.
The more facts that pile up about global warming, the greater the resistance to them grows, making it harder to enact measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare communities for the inevitable change ahead.
Published: 2015
Languages: English, Norwegian
Audiobook: No
Money and Soul
A new balance between finance and feelings: The Psychology of Money and the Transformation of Capitalism
Many people feel that money and what we perceive as the psyche, or soul, are bitter enemies - do we choose money or soul, finance or feelings, markets or common humanity? This book traces the origins of these opposing concepts, and the feelings that money provokes.
Published: 2009
Languages: English, Norwegian
Audiobook: No
“Optimism and pessimism are tools we can apply when considering the wild different futures lurking beyond the horizon. And they are best used in parallel, like the left and right eye. It's not an either-or, but a both-and.”
— Per Espen Stoknes