Intro -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on carbon dioxide equivalence -- About the Authors -- Introduction: Future Scene -- Chapter One Take Hold of the Future -- Size of the problem -- Cost is the number one issue -- The 40 trillion green tech boom -- We have all the tools we need -- Need for courageous decisions now -- Scale up to get costs down -- Annual spend of 500 billion on green innovation -- Great ideas to change the world -- Chapter Two Alternative Power Generation -- We need to build four times the power output of the United States by 2030 -- Wind, water and solar could supply 100 per cent of global energy, replacing all fossil fuel use -- Solar power takes off -- Why wind power will dominate our future -- Waves and tide are hard to use -- The importance of hydroelectric power -- Power from hot rocks - geothermal -- Heading towards a carbon-free world -- Chapter Three Cleaner Coal, Oil and Gas -- Cleaner electricity from coal, oil or gas -- Zero-carbon coal burning? -- What price for a barrel of oil? -- Methane to power the future or poison the planet? -- Biofuels - great promise or great curse? -- Chapter Four Smart Power and the Nuclear Boom -- Managing peak demand means cheaper power -- Next-generation nuclear boom -- Nuclear fusion - unlimited power with lower risks -- Chapter Five Beter Cars, Trucks, Trains, Planes and Ships -- Revolution on the roads -- Better trucks for freight delivery -- Buses and coaches - instant extra transport capacity -- Bicycles can transport a million people a day -- Faster rail passengers and slow freight -- The future of air travel -- Ships can use (even) less fuel -- Keeping freight moving - logistics -- Chapter Six Future Cities: Lower carbon to carbon-free -- From low carbon to zero-emission cities -- Summary -- Chapter Seven Green product development and IT.

Recycling saves raw materials and energy -- Reforming the digital world - green IT -- Virtual teams and virtual working - impact on travel -- Chapter Eight Solving the Water Crisis -- Innovations to save water -- Reduce water use on farms -- Dams - vital to the future but often attacked -- Chapter Nine Protecting and Managing Forests -- Make sure forests are worth more alive than dead -- Paper and cardboard packaging industry - friend or enemy of forests? -- Chapter Ten Feeding the Whole World -- Population growth will fall -- Food and farming -- The future of the sea and fishing -- Chapter Eleven Funding Green Tech -- How to get funding for your green innovation -- Offsetting - a source for green funding -- Chapter Twelve Busines Agility and Innovation -- The puzzle of innovation -- Open innovation - share ideas faster -- So what about sustainable innovation? -- Isolate or integrate innovation teams? -- Summary -- Afterword: Ten Steps to Profitable sustainability -- New consumers for a green tech world -- Myths that stop action -- Ten steps for your company -- Ten steps for governments -- Finally… 12 things we can all do as a consumer -- Further Information -- Global Change Ltd -- Globe Forum - Innovation Market Place -- Notes -- Index.

Sustainagility explores the way in which innovative and agile business ideas, processes and products have the ability to solve some of the world's most complex sustainability challenges. Examples and case studies will be used to demonstrate how real companies have successfully used innovative and agile methods to improve their businesses, make a profit and fight some of the greatest threats to the world's ecosystems.

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