"Thrive in turbulent times"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: standing up to uncertainty -- Facing the future -- Why we are expanding your view of investing -- More than money: recognizing your real net worth -- Personal, tangible, and financial assets -- Weaning off wall street -- The three investment strategies: -- Close to home, sustainable global economy, and evolutionary -- A field guide to resilient investing -- A tour of the nine zones of the resilient investing map -- Find yourself on the map -- What you are already doing : self-assessment -- Be ready for anything -- Qualities of the resilient investor, scenario planning, and plausible futures -- Dancing with the future -- Resilient investor profiles: what is your d-type? -- Your resilient investing plan -- Designing, implementing, and evaluating your resilient investing plan -- Tales of resilient living -- The authors' stories -- The invisible heart of resilience -- How becoming personally resilient helps create a resilient world -- Resource 1: the case for SRI -- Resource 2: the investor's eye -- Resource 3: the resilient investor online resources -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index -- About the authors -- About natural investments.

The way you spend your time, your energy, and your purchasing dollars are investments just as much as any brokerage account is, and they deserve the same kind of attention. The Resilient Investor shows you how to expand the concept of investing beyond stocks and bonds, wake up from dangerous old investing patterns, open your eyes to new opportunities, and build a better world.

The book's centerpiece is the Resilient Investment Map, which first lays out three classes of assets: personal (your time), tangible (the things you own or have access to), and financial (traditional investment funds). Then it offers three different strategies for those assets. You can invest them in ways that strengthen yourself, your family, and your community; in ways that encourage the continued growth of a sustainable global economy; or in more visionary efforts that will help create a better future. You'll learn how to diversify your investment eggs into many more baskets than those offered by Wall Street.

The goal is to make yourself more resilient: able to anticipate and prepare for disturbance, rebuild as necessary, and adapt and evolve when possible. For example, investing in food and energy self-sufficiency will help if the financial system takes another tumble. But, as the authors persuasively argue, the choices that ultimately make you the most resilient also enhance our communities, our economy, and the planet - paying true dividends to everyone.