The Uninhabitable Earth
Earth Overshoot Day 2019 - marking the day when humanity exceeds nature's renewable ecosystem resources for the year - was the earliest ever, on July…… Read More »
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
The Green Revolution
Subtitled 'narratives of politics, technology and gender', this book reviews the Green Revolution from its origins in the 1940s to its application to Africa in…… Read More »
Preparing for a World that Doesn't Exist – Yet
Authors: Neil Richardson, Rick Smyre
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
This US-centric book is about framing a Second Enlightenment to create communities of the future and is based on the experience of Communities of the…… Read More »
Reforming Law and Economy for a Sustainable Earth
This is a brilliant and seminal analysis of our current systemic dynamic of unsustainable development in relation to the overall issue of global ecological governance.…… Read More »
Good Work
As it happens, I spent the evening with Laurence last week at the new WCCM centre at Bonnevaux near Poitiers, having driven up with a…… Read More »
Spending Time
The author is a distinguished labour economist who has devoted a great deal of study to time as our most valuable resource, based on a…… Read More »
Not Working – Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
This is a searching and incisive study of the labour market and patterns of work, especially since the financial crash of 2008. It highlights connections…… Read More »
HUMANITY'S LAST STAND
This is a very important book about a very important topic, and which is indeed the subject of this year's Mystics and Scientists conference on…… Read More »
Power, Pleasure and Profit
In this brilliant, penetrating and amazingly erudite study subtitled 'insatiable appetites from Machiavelli to Madison', readers are treated to an engaging tour of the 'Enlightenment…… Read More »
NATURE IN MIND
Scientists are alerting us to the potentially catastrophic effects of global warming. Some are researching the sixth species extinction, predicted to be the most devastating…… Read More »