SUBTLE ACTIVISM
I met the author last summer while we were both doing introductory week at the Tamera Community in Portugal, certainly a centre of activism on…… Read More »
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
On Presence
Authors: Peter Reason, Sarah Gillespie
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
This is a delightful short collection of essays on the orchard, the nest, silence and the role of art in a time of catastrophe. The…… Read More »
Social Threefolding
I reviewed a volume of essays on social threefolding last year where the elements are our economic, political and cultural institutions aiming respectively at associative…… Read More »
Emerson and Environmental Ethics
My copy of Emerson's Essays is dated 1890 and is inscribed by my grandmother. This new book on Emerson is equally informative for Emerson aficionados…… Read More »
Making Eden
Subtitled 'how plants transformed a barren planet' this fascinating book describes the rise and diversification of plant life originating in a certain type of algae…… Read More »
THE VISIONARY SPIRIT
This is the sequel to the author's The Unselfish Spirit of 2014 and is subtitled 'awakening to the imaginal realm in the Transformocene Age' -…… Read More »
ON THE FUTURE
EF Schumacher famously remarked that humanity is now too clever to survive without wisdom, an observation I am sure Martin Rees would agree with in…… Read More »
This companion book has sold extensively in France tens of thousands of people. It explains basic astronomical information and gives a useful classification of the…… Read More »
Matthias Thun
While the core of this annual biodynamic Bible remains the calendar, every year there are special features, which this year includes a very useful section…… Read More »
Tom Butler
This is a personal book diagnosing the breakdown in our existing systems and ways in which we can all make an individual difference. As readers…… Read More »