{"product_id":"terrible-beauty-auden-schendler-9781647829759","title":"Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA firsthand, trench-view story of the failure of the modern corporate sustainability movement--and an inspiring prescription for positive change.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApple calls its headquarters the greenest building on Earth. Microsoft announces an ambitious commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring an oil conference in Saudi Arabia. American businesses, communities, and individuals assiduously measure their carbon footprints, then implement voluntary emissions reduction programs, all while trumpeting their do-gooderism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problem is, none of this--individual efforts at recycling or carbon-focused corporate sustainability tactics--will make even a dent in solving the civilizational threat of climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs corporate sustainability adviser and environmental activist Auden Schendler argues in this provocative, powerful book, we're living a big green lie. The hard truth: Much of the modern corporate green road map could have been written by the fossil fuel industry specifically to avoid disrupting the status quo. We have become somehow complicit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there is another truth: While ineffective or duplicitous environmentalism has become standard practice, we all have friends and family we love and care about, whose future depends on solving climate change. Conscience or faith tells us we have an obligation to repair the world. How can our common dreams be so at odds with our common practice? And how might we meld our spirit and passion to fashion a better future with meaningful action on climate change?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchendler speaks to this profound contradiction and takes it head-on--with a bracing reality check on current practice, moving personal stories of parenthood and service, and innovative, real-world methods to tackle climate change at the corporate, community, and individual levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerrible Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique and essential road map for a new environmentalism, showing us that the key to saving the planet is to tap into our own humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Auden Schendler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1647829755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647829759\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard Business Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Auden Schendler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44890666336511,"sku":"9781647829759","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c3e14c9c-e1b1-4302-a6fb-e5383e58cd2c.jpg?v=1709739679","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/terrible-beauty-auden-schendler-9781647829759","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}