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What's the Role of Business?
Business is destroying the earth - but it doesn't have
to be that way. The role of business is to preserve and enhance life:
To provide more opportunities, more wealth and higher standards of health for
everyone.
What's
MSRB's Mission?
To create a sustainable future through restorative
business: Sustainable management of our natural resources.
What's
Sustainable Management?
Sustainable
management is based on co-operation, not competition. Co-operation makes progress
possible; competition accelerates the destruction of our life base Earth.
Example 1: NASA's budget of $16.5 billion dwarfs Russia’s space budget of $638
million, which includes recent funding increases. Ironically, with the Russian
Soyuz flights you don’t have to toss a coin to see whether their cosmonauts
would land safely.
Example 2: Oil
projects an even more sobering picture of the destructive powers of hubris and
self-imposed competition. While every
country in the world could buy light, sweet crude oil at about $65.35 per barrel [August
19, 2005 for September delivery], the US taxpayers are forced to shell out up to $1,113 per barrel
(estimate excludes cost of endless numbers of lives lost in conflicts) in subsidies to "secure" their imports,
especially from the Persian Gulf region.
Do
the Old Management Paradigms Work in the 21st Century?
The skills you need to manage your
your life and business in the 21st century differ radically from the
traditional master and slave business paradigms (promoted by mainstream
management programs) that have pushed the world to the brink of
catastrophe.
EcoPreneur program reaches beyond the MBA illusion and empowers you to create
real wealth without destroying the earth.
What's
an EcoPreneur?
EcoPreneurs help
create a sustainable future with new opportunities and real wealth
through sustainable
management of natural resources.
EcoPreneurs learn to:
1. Unchain themselves from the corporate slavery.
2. Establish and manage an
ecologically and economically sustainable community.
3. Create more opportunities and more wealth through
restorative business.
4. Provide safe, beneficial, and
sustainable services to their community.
5. Save humanity from spiritual
death and ecological extinction.
What is
Sustainability?
In Beyond Growth, economist Herman Daly defines "sustainable
development" as "development without growth - without growth in
throughput beyond environmental regenerative [soil, water, trees, for example]
and absorptive [waste emissions, e.g., carbon dioxide] capacity."
Definition
of Environmental Sustainability
1. Output Rule: Waste emissions from a project should be within the
assimilative capacity of the local environment to absorb without unacceptable
degradation of its future waste-absorptive capacity or other important services.
2. Input Rule:
a)
Renewables: harvest rates of renewable resources' inputs would be within the
regenerative capacity of the natural system that generates them.
b) Non-renewables: depletion rates of non-renewable resource inputs should be
equal to the rate at which sustained income or renewable substitutes are
developed by human invention and investment. Part of the proceeds from
liquidating non-renewables should be allocated to research in pursuit of
sustainable substitutes.
Four
dimensions of environmental sustainability are: sound economics, environmental
accounting, environmental assessment, and effective use of operational
guidelines.
Goodland, Robert J. A. and
Herman E. Daly, Salah El Serafy. 1993. "The Urgent Need for Rapid
Transition to Global Environmental Sustainability." Environmental
Conservation 20 (4): 297-310.
How Restorative Businesses Operate
Restorative businesses create wealth by cleaning up (restoring) and improving
the ecosystems (life support systems).
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