The financial cirsis is about more than just trials and tribulations. It is above all a historic juncture, a time to identify opportunities and turn them into reality. Casino capitalism has been ousted from its throne and the time is ripe for the new, sustainable economy.

Wouter van Dieren - an environmental guru for nearly forty years, and known in the Netherlands as Mr. Club of Rome - was already writing in 1993 about falsh capitalism and the global casino, about the financial markets and their attendant risks. The anthology brings together a number of his articles in updated form, as a response to all the talk of economic crisis we're hearing from alarmist economists and others.

During the Great Depression President Roosevelt launched the New Deal, a visionary programme of economic recovery for America. The New Green Deal follows in the footsteps of that programme, envisaging a global transformation that overcomes the crisis by setting course for a sustainable world.