I wish I could repeatedly upvote this post @artemislives!! The book sounds great and I will definitely get a copy and read it. I have an educational background that is based on green and sustainable enterprise management, and what you are describing for business reflects damn near perfectly what I explain to people all the time! Sustainable living when applied to business practices, includes sustainable finances. There can be a happy medium that includes the ability to financially support oneself without doing harm. Here in the United States, there is the development of the "b" or "benefit" corporation segment of business that has a triple bottom line ~ people, profit, planet. It involves transparency throughout the fabric of the company, and allows businesses to profit from being clearly ethical in all their practices.
(Thats a super basic summary!)
For myself personally, I have been extremely heartened to find so many here on the steem platforms that are working locally to move forward into a sustainable global community. My location here in the southern Appalachian mountains of the US is one where many of the rural areas are impoverished ~ but these people have at their disposal access to natural resources that could potentially sustainably benefit the community at large...However the race is on as the corporate interests continue to creep in and offer these people the illusion of a better life through short term financial gains, or through work at extremely environmentally harmful industries. There are those of us here who are in the think tanks (and some who have been for decades) on how to educate a populace in a way they can hear on the subject of what is truly beneficial for them and their future ~ a future that continues to have usable natural resources here!

On a side note if you know of anyone on here that's in New Zealand please let me know. The paper mill that is only about 30 miles upstream is ultimately owned by a man in New Zealand. I would LOVE to find a way to put some public pressure on him in his home for the detrimental practices that continue to wreak havoc on multiple ecosystems here in our beautiful mountains. I know that NZ in general is pretty conscious about environmental health standards, and I wonder if his friends and neighbors are aware that he is destroying things elsewhere in a manner that is shameful...