Ecological Intelligence, Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.
Ecological Intelligence, Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.
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Ecological Intelligence
How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything

Author: Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Narrator: Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Abridged: 5 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/14/2009


Synopsis

In Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, Daniel Goleman recasts the uproar over global warming and the assault of man-made toxins into our bodies in terms of the collective self-deception which both created this crisis and holds a key to its solution.

Ecological Intelligence argues that "green" labels and recycling programs may do more harm than good by feeding a vital lie, lulling us into the illusion that we are doing enough already while ignoring the adverse impact of the far vaster proportion of what we buy and do. The book brings a psychologist's insights into the world of commerce, arguing for radical transparency--tracking every substantial impact over the life cycle of an item, from manufacture to daily use, to disposal--and surfacing those impacts at the point of purchase. The movement toward such transparency augurs a day when the free market will operate in public interest.

About Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., covered behavioral and brain sciences for the New York Times for twelve years and is co-director for the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University. He has taught at Harvard, his alma mater, and addresses groups and businesses around the world. He is the author of Emotional Intelligence: Working with Emotional Intelligence, and The Meditative Mind, and is co-author of Primal Leadership and Destructive Emotions.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Desiree on June 08, 2010

I really enjoyed this one and had a hard time putting it down! Goleman writes about how "green" really isn't "green." We may think we are buying green, but he says that nothing made industrially can be utterly green, only relatively more so. He talks about how "freegans" are green, as they try never......more

Goodreads review by Marjorie on July 19, 2016

I kept wishing this would be more interesting. It's such an earnest book that details how we can make purchasing more transparent, such that consumers will spur an ecological revolution by buying only goods made in an ecologically safe fashion. The problem with the book, for me, as with many such 'g......more

Goodreads review by Ellen on July 26, 2022

Subsided some of my existential dread for a while. 10/10 recommend.......more

The thesis is that buying power can change the world. Goleman may have slightly over-extended his argument, but he makes a persuasive case.......more


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