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Resetting, Not Offsetting
for Post Growth Futures
What We’re Reading – February, 2012
In Praise of Slowness, The Web of Life, This Changes Everything
This is part of an ongoing series highlighting what our members are currently reading in the Post Growth and sustainability realms. This month includes In Praise of Slowness, The Web of Life, and This Changes Everything.
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What We’re Reading: October 2011
The God Species, A Chorus of Stones, and Consulting the Genius of the Place
This post is part of an on-going series highlighting what our members are currently reading in the Post Growth and sustainability realms. The God Species by Mark Lynas The planet has nine boundaries that should not be crossed, argues Mark Lynas. Some we’re familiar with, like the climate boundary. Others we more or less ignore, such as the nitrogen [...]
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What We’re Reading: September 2011
The Sharing Solution, Anthill, and The Bridge at the End of the World
This post is part of an on-going series highlighting what our members are currently reading in the Post Growth and sustainability realms. This month includes: a sharing ‘how-to’ guide, fiction, and economic/environmental analysis.
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What We’re Reading: June 2011
Peoplequake, Yucca Mountain, and a Subsistence Perspective
The first in an on-going series highlighting what our members are reading in the Post Growth and sustainability realms. June includes Smart Growth, Peoplequake, About A Mountain, and The Subsistence Perspective.
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Paul Gilding Great Disruption Book Tour
7:30pm May 6th at Town Hall Seattle
In a two short weeks Town Hall Seattle will be hosting Paul Gilding, author of The Great Disruption. Paul will be discussing the now unavoidable consequences of climate change and the challenges humanity will face. But in the face of such great challenges Paul envisions it will bring out the best of us: compassion, innovation, [...]
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Present day Canadian society is literally oblivious. Everyone knows the state that the environment is in yet very few advocate changing it. It is this lack of drive and sense of impending doom that acts as an inhibitor for Canadians to let go of the “most recent past”. As more and more Canadians are seen [...]
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Today is the release of a seminal paper, Enough Is Enough: Ideas for a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources. The result of the first Steady State Economy Conference held in Leeds, UK, this 130 page report not only addresses why we need an alternative to growth, but outlines policies to achieve such an alternative: [...]
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Tim Jackson is a rock-star. At least in the post growth community, in my opinion. He has helped to further an intelligent, deliberate conversation about what we need as people on this planet: a healthy, sustainable, people and planet friendly economy. His book, Prosperity Without Growth, is by far one of the best reads on the subject [...]
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