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The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken is a business and environmental studies book that argues that modern commerce must be reorganized around ecological limits. First published in the early 1990s and later revised, it remains a landmark critique of industrial capitalism from the perspective of sustainability. Hawken does not treat ecology as a separate moral concern added onto business; instead, he presents it as the framework within which business must operate if it is to remain viable. The book combines diagnosis and prescription: it explains how industrial production externalizes environmental costs, then proposes a restorative economy that aligns profit-making with natural systems. Written for managers, students, policymakers, and concerned readers, it helped popularize ideas such as eco-efficiency, biomimicry, and green taxes. Its purpose is practical as well as intellectual, offering a case for redesigning business so that economic activity becomes regenerative rather than destructive.