Cache: Creating Natural Economies

Here is a compelling book for business people with more than the bottom line in mind, for conservationists who wish to get practical results, and for people who simply love nature. Cache provides fresh thinking for the environmental movement.

In Tom Brokaw’s words, an “evocative and inspirational book.”

The book is a trove of stories and photographs from Beebe’s near four decades pioneering new approaches to conservation and development with such personal heroes as grizzly bear biologist John Craighead, godfather of Costa Rica’s national parks Alvaro Ugalde, and urban theorist Jane Jacobs. Cache includes the inside story of the tumultuous creation of Conservation International, now one of the largest conservation organizations in the world; co-founding the world’s first environmental bank; starting FoodHub, an online marketplace for food buyers and sellers; creating new ways to manage fisheries and forestry; and developing new scientific and integrative systems modeling to improve social, economic and environmental decision-making.

Cache offers a fresh, hopeful perspective at a time when global economic, social and environmental crises are growing. Beebe believes reliable prosperity will elude us until we change our relations with each other and with the rest of the natural world. Cache provides on-the-ground examples of how we can do this.