This is part of an ongoing series highlighting what our members are currently reading (and watching!) in the Post Growth and sustainability realms. Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom by Bell Hooks Drawing from decades of life and teaching that centers social justice as it relates to race, class, and gender, bell hooks has compiled a series of thirty [...]
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This is part of an ongoing series highlighting what our members are currently reading in the Post Growth and sustainability realms. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom A story about a student who reconnects with his dying teacher for one last series of ‘lectures’, Tuesdays with Morrie is a gentle reflection on all that we have [...]
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George Lakoff offers some insights about framing a movement. Follow this advice and OWS or other citizen-led initiatives just might change the world!
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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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September 15 is Free Money Day! It’s not only about imagining alternatives to growth-oriented economic systems, but also about celebrating many of the alternatives that already exist.
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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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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 Slowcoast, Collaboration, and Wendell Berry.
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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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In March 2011, Mitch Epstein was awarded the Prix Pictet, an annual photography prize for work that highlights social and environmental issues, with this year’s theme being ‘Growth’. Epstein’s winning series of photographs is called ‘American Power’ in which he documented ‘a consumerist society inured to the consequences of unbridled consumption where growth no longer meant progress, but self-destruction.’
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