A Time for Shambhala: Pandemic, Capital Collapse, and Recoding a New Planet Paradigm

A Time for Shambhala: Pandemic, Capital Collapse, and Recoding a New Planet Paradigm

A Time for Shambhala: Pandemic, Capital Collapse, and Recoding a New Planet Paradigm

A Time for Shambhala: Pandemic, Capital Collapse, and Recoding a New Planet Paradigm

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Overview

With the current pandemic, the world is in lock down. An unprecedented global supply chain and business shutdown, capital market collapse, and global depression, exposes the fragility of an economic and financial system that has been taken for granted for too long.


Everyone knew something was wrong all along. But nobody dared to question, as the experts hadn't a clue how to fix it. Following decade of protest with people across the world calling for new values and a new economic system. Bretton Woods is history. The Washington Consensus bankrupt. What's left? What's next?


A Time for Shambhala is a roadmap for recoding a new planet paradigm. One based not on greed but on balance and pragmatism. It provides a rational and holistic approach for a sustainable planet. It is not about theory but practice. Economics from the grass roots up, not top down models. It calls for: compassionate capital, conscientious consumption, stakeholder value, environmental economics, and a more holistic approach toward a sustainable future. It takes real life experiences across the globe and brings them back to home, to re-pioneer America. It is economics with a heart, a mind and a soul.


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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781788944755
Publisher: DISCOVERY PUBLISHER
Publication date: 04/08/2020
Pages: 370
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Laurence J. Brahm is an international lawyer, crisis mediator, social entrepreneur, environmental activist, author and award-winning documentary film director. He is currently a Senior International Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization, the founding director of Himalayan Consensus Institute, co-chair of Silk and Spice Road Dialogues convened by UNDP.
Serving as Senior Advisor to China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection between 2013-2015, he was architect of “Ecological Civilization,” China’s “green print” for renewable energy and water conservation, and was awarded the National Social Responsibility Award in 2016 and the Friendship Award (China’s highest award given to a foreigner) in 2019, for his work on national environmental policy. He also served as advisor to Bhutan’s National Environmental Commission. In 2015 Iceland’s President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson invited him to serve on the Himalaya – Third Pole Circle, a panel forming policy responses to glacial melt caused by climate change. In 2012 as NGO spokesperson to the United Nations Earth Summit 2012 (Rio+20), he was selected by ScenaRio as one of the “100 Opinion Leaders Advising Rio+20”. In 2010 he received the UNDP Award for Bio-Diversity and Cultural Protection in China presented by Jane Goodall.
His passion for exploration in the Himalayan region led to three National Geographic expeditions between 2002-2006 in search of the mythical kingdom called Shangri-la, for which he was elected a Fellow International of the Explorer’s Club in 2015. Founder of Shambhala Studio Film Productions, his “Searching for Shangri-la” film series received the National Geographic Air and Water Conservation Award for raising environmental awareness.
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