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| Title: | Earthfuture
: Stories from a Sustainable World |
| Author: | Guy Dauncey |
| ISBN: | 086571407X : 9780865714076 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 140x215mm |
| Pages: | 160 |
| Weight: | .262 Kg. |
| Published: | New Society Publishers - September 2003 |
| List Price: | 11.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Short stories: THE ENVIRONMENT |
This book presents over 40 provocative and inspiring glimpses into a world that people are managing to make sustainable. They are premised on the idea that, if we can visualise a paradise on Earth, then we can create it. Set in the early years of the new millennium, it is a world of ecovillages and self-organising city neighbourhoods, of near-zero garbage and climate-friendly cars, of work-sharing and social investment, of neighbourhood democracy and the 'syntropy revolution', of a world-wide sustainable trade and environment treaty, and the Earth Pledge. In short, it is a world where wealth is defined by peace, a healthy environment, and the high quality of our relationships. At the same time, it is not, of course, a world without its nightmares -- such as antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and genetic pollution. Nor is it without its difficult choices -- ecologically managed forests versus business-as-usual, or the free-flow of city traffic versus community gardens. . . With its mix of utopian fiction, and reportage of near-reality, Earthfuture sows the seeds of an alternative future with skill and obvious delight. Highly readable and accessible, it will appeal to a wide readership including social and environmental activists, progressive urban planners and local government officials, and students in environmental, social, and urban studies, and community economic development -- as well as the general reader tired of the doom and gloom.
Preface ; There is Only Ourselves; Going Organic, 2005; A Future in the Forest, 2005; Earth Day, April 2006 ; The Syntropy Revolution, 2006; Donald's Street, 2006; A Bike! A Bike!; The Natural Step, 2007; Kamchatka's Reprieve, 2008; Farewell to Toxics, 2009; The Tides of Bold Bluff, 2009; Cobble Hills, 2009; The Dawning of the Solar Age, 2010; I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas, 2010; Hamlet's Ode to the 21st Century ; Outbreak! Glasgow, 2004; The Pangs of Gaia's Wounds, 2011; Antarctica's Farewell, 2050; The Economists' Celebration, 2012; Nurjahan's Story, 2013; The Groups of Five, 2013; Jomo's Death, 2014; For these things, we are grateful; The Earth Pledge; And If.
