BOOKS:
What We Learned in the Rainforest - Business Lessons from Nature
by Future 500 Chairman and President, Tachi Kiuchi and Bill Shireman.What We Learned in the Rainforest teaches that nature is not just a resource for business, but a powerful model for superior business performance in the emerging economy. The authors show that the old model of business—the machine model that pitted business against nature—is growing obsolete. In the emerging economy, businesses excel when they emulate what they once sought to conquer... more
If the World Ran Out of Bs
by Bill Shireman and Samantha ShiremanWhat would happen if there were no more B's? Would Bill suddenly get ill? Would kids who wanted bicycles end up with icycles instead? In such a world, no one would know where a bat was at, but when kids saw a bug, at least they'd still say ug. Punctuating the puns, Dean Stanton's humorous drawings show what to expect in a B-free world.
Global Technological Change: From Hard Technology to Soft Technology
by Future 500 China Executive Director Zhouying Jin
"A powerful reconceptualization of technological options and innovation management, which can help steer societies in assessing technologies for the 21st century. As Zhouying Jin correctly points out: in emerging knowledge societies, the "soft" technologies are drivers of physical "hardware" technologies. These soft technologies include management, organizational design, education for creativity and entrepreneurship, good governance, prudent regulation, patent systems, efficient banking as well as fostering systems thinking, ecological and cultural balance. This book is a major intellectual advance that can help clarify human choices for decades to come."
Hazel Henderson, MD, Calvert Henderson Quality of Life Indicators
PUBLICATIONS:
- Wealth of Notions: Facts on the Knowledge Economy and Global Sustainability. Shireman, 1994 -
- Public Affairs For A New Economy. Shireman, 1994 -
- Market-Based Environmental Laws: 100 Ways to Use Prices to Prevent Pollution. Cobb, 2/92 -
- Changing The Rules of the Game. Shireman, 1994 -
ORDERING PUBLICATIONS:
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REPORTS:
Computers, E-Waste, and Product Stewardship: Is California Ready for the Challenge? A Menu of Policy Options for Computer Extended Product Responsibility
Report for the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Region IX prepared by Global Futures Foundation
Contributing Authors: Tachi Kiuchi, Cate Gable, Steve Cassel, and Bill Shireman
Project Manager: Cate Gable
CASE STUDIES:
At Future 500, we believe in a natural systems approach to maximizing triple bottom line performance to all a company's stakeholders. In our Research Center, we have highlighted brief case studies that demonstrate this systems approach.
