While many of the proposed global solutions to environmental degradation arise from the same industrial paradigm that caused them – more growth, technology and money – environmental remedies that aim at strictly national issues generally arise from political pragmatism. Politically feasible solutions tend to be half-measures that bring up the rear in terms of innovation and imagination. Solutions proposed by Hawken in this selection are both specific and broad-based – an attempt to describe how we can realistically begin to reverse our downward environmental slide.
