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Dollars to Doughnuts

Imagining a Sustainable Future

Two pressing questions inspire this book:

1. What kind of world do we want for our grandchildren and theirs?

2. How must we manage affairs on spaceship Earth to achieve it?

This book is about urgency. If we don’t act— what then?

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This book is about agency— our power to act. Or not.

 Dollars to Doughnuts confronts one of the most urgent questions of our day: What can we do now to leave our children and theirs a habitable Earth?

 Inspired by economist Kate Raworth's "doughnut" model of sustainable development, it asks: What must change for humanity to flourish within the safe space between basic human needs and the outer limits of nature's bounty?

Dollars to Doughnuts offers ideas and resources to help us navigate the thorny maze from here-and-now to well-being and abundance for generations to come.

This book is about urgency-- if we don't act, what then?

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Lloyd Prentice

Lloyd has an MA degree from Stanford University in Public Affairs Communication. His career spans corporate communication, academia, magazine publishing, and educational software development. His works include Aya Takeo, a three-volume manga for young adults; two novels, Freein' Pancho and The Gospel of Ashes; a technical programming book, Build It with Nitrogen: the Fast Off the Block Web Framework; and more than 25 educational computer software products for major publishers.

Lloyd lives in a mixed eastern white pine and northern red oak forest four miles from the Atlantic Ocean in a town noted for saltwater marshes. He spends winter months in a small coastal village on the Gulf of California side of Baja California Sur, Mexico. He hopes that forests, oceans, marshes, and the scenic vistas of Baja provide future generations with as much joy as they give him

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 I The Challenge 8 1 Population 9 2 Limits 13 3 Resources 18 4 Metrics 24 5 Money 28 6 Value 33 7 Culture 37 8 Incentives 44 9 Work 49 10 Technology 57 11 Media 64 12 Governance 70 13 Habitability 74 14 Humanity 2.0 84 II Hope Springs Eternal 15 Nature 98 CONTENTS 16 Water 104 17 Forests 109 18 Fisheries 116 19 Agriculture 121 20 Mining 131 21 Circles 135 22 What to Do? 139 III Appendices A Earth in Real Time 154 B Governing Frameworks 156 C Organizations 157 E Books 173 Notes 177 Index 231

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