Table of Contents

1. Report to the shareholders 2. The state of the non-union 3. Beginnings 4. Through the back door 5. The levers of business and the corridors of politics 6. Toward Stockholm 7. UNEP, Petro-Canada and the politics of water 8. The African famine 9. The run-up to Rio 10. The earth summit 11. After Rio, the earth council and the environmental movement 12. A matter of energy: Running a power utility 13. Rio+5: Successes and failures 14. Reforming the UN 15. Can technology see us through? 16. Avoiding doomsday: A program for action 17. And now.....

About the Author

'The New York Times' haild Maurice Strong as the "Custodian of the Planet". He is perpetually on the short list of candidates for Secretary Generral of the United Nations. Among the hats he currently wears are: Senior Advisor to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan; Senior Advisor to World Bank President James Wolfensohn; Chairman of the Earth Council; Chairman of the World REsources Institute; Co-Chairman of the Council of the World Economic Forum; member of Toyota's International Advisory Board. As advisor to Kofi Annanm, he is overseeing the new UN reforms. Stong's most prominent and influential role to date was as Secretary General of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development -- the so-called Earth Summit -- held in Rio de Janeiro, which gave a significant push to global economic and environmental regulation.