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“With increasing pressure from development, land trusts will need to make new friends and find new approaches to protect natural areas before it is too late. Investing in Nature is a tool box loaded with powerful ways to engage business capital in the work of land conservation. If you are looking for creative, new ways to save land, read this book!” –Rand Wentworth
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This is a book for people who are ready to get very creative! Prepare to learn how to braid industry, energy, and conservation into a plan for America’s future. Bill GInn begins the converstation with a great and very practical story about his own inability to grow food on his own farm in Maine because his soil was too acidic. Lookiing for solutions led him to his discovery that the ” cheap miracle” he needed was in the waste product the paper mill in his own backyard was spending millions of dollars trucking out of the state. From this beginning, he saw a new life for waste materials, and an industry growing from it. Realizing he could do as much as an ” eco-business man” than he could as the head of Maine’s prestiges Audubon Society, he launched on an odessy which will inspire and ignite the interest of others looking for a new way to move ahead in our quest for a future for America’s Conservation Movement.
Hooray for Mr. Ginn’s documentation and careful focus. I look forward to his future and his next book!
William J. Ginn’s Investing In Nature: Case Studies Of Land Conservation In Collaboration With Business is a valuable discussion linking business interests to environmental concerns to show how conservation investment banking can work. Ginn’s background in both business and land conservation issues at The Nature Conservancy allows him to reveal collaborative efforts which work for both in this inspirational guide of real-life achievements.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enlightening Book
By describing TNC actions involving large tracts of land, the author illustrates the industry — NGO cooperation that is required if we wish to take land protection beyond the…