How can I support the application of Indigenous laws?
Alejandro Frid, the author of Changing Tides: An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene, was asked the …
Keyword: Economics
In the Business of Change
How Social Entrepreneurs are Disrupting Business as Usual
Our communities are facing the fallout from the demise of vital industry, bankrupt economies, bad policy or policing, and political mismanagement. People are looking for answers, and the "same old" simply won't do.
In the Business of Change is a …
related subjects: New Economies
Afterburn (PDF)
Society Beyond Fossil Fuels
Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that …
Afterburn (EPUB)
Society Beyond Fossil Fuels
Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that …
The Emergent Agriculture
Farming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy
Long embraced by corporations who are driven only by the desire for profit, industrial agriculture wastes precious resources and spews millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year, exacerbating climate change and threatening …
related subjects: Modern Homesteading and Farming
After Progress
Reason and Religion at the End of the Industrial Age
Progress is not just a goal in the West—it's a religion. Most people believe in its inherent value as enthusiastically and uncritically as medieval peasants believed in heaven and hell. Our faith in progress drives the popular insistence that peak …
related subjects: Cultural Critique
Cold, Hungry and in the Dark (EPUB)
Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth
Conventional wisdom has North America entering a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. But has industry been honest? Cold, Hungry and in the Dark argues that declining productivity combined with increasing demand will trigger a crisis …
related subjects: Energy
Cold, Hungry and in the Dark (PDF)
Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth
Conventional wisdom has North America entering a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. But has industry been honest? Cold, Hungry and in the Dark argues that declining productivity combined with increasing demand will trigger a crisis …
related subjects: Energy
Supply Shock (EPUB)
Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution
Politicians, economists, and Wall Street would have us believe that limitless economic expansion is the Holy Grail, and that there is no conflict between growing the economy and protecting the environment. Supply Shock debunks these widely accepted …
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