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    <body><![CDATA[The ideas in this book seem like common sense, yet the government, businesses, and consumers continue to ignore these ideas and give in to greed and materialism rather than doing what's right for the world.  The true cost of products (that includes the resulting damage done to people and the environ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44636403">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Paul Hawken states: <br/><br/>If capitalism has one pervasive untruth, it is the delusion that business is an open, linear system: that through resource extraction and technology, growth is always possible, given sufficient capital and will (p. 32).<br/><br/>If this book has one main purpose, it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9148656">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very good book. I have to read again with a highlighter in hand. What's scary is that this book was written over tne years ago and we haven't even started to address the issues that Hawken raises concerns about (monoculture, crashing species populations, rampant environmental destruction... and th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56145248">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the book that made me want to be an environmentalist.  Since reading it, my views have changed significantly, so much so that I can only give it three stars.<br/><br/>However, I think that this book was way ahead of its time.  It may be a bit dated compared to more recent works by folks l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52698525">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If it weren't for the overly businesslike writing style of this book, I would have probably really enjoyed it. I don't consider myself a &quot;dummy&quot; at all, but I think I would have prefered a &quot;...for dummies&quot; version of this particular book. <br/><br/>The author makes some good po...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19260502">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just through the first twenty pages so far. And already the Author has intelligently provide a general synopsis of what will be yet to come throughout the rest of the book. In discussing the impact of corporate America's effect on the evnironment Hawken describes through basic issues that corporatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37868692">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this was referenced in a movie, I don't know which.<br/><br/>by the time I read this, the history of the corporation was just boring rearticulation. I don't remember anything from this book...though it did appeal to pathos via NUMBERS]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bought this book several years ago, but accidentally left it on a plane before I'd finished the first chapter. I think the time is right to pick it up again.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very thorough analysis of the current political and social environment that describes what the current situation is in terms of sustainable development. It seems like a vicious circle to which everybody contributes whether they actually mean to or not. But at the same time, no one - or a very few ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51236804">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was the inspiration to my career]]></body>
    
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