Glaciers
This book breaks new ground - or should I say ice - in bringing the vulnerability of glaciers to the general reading public. The author…… Read More »
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
LEADING FROM THE EMERGING FUTURE
Authors: Katrin Kaufer, Otto Scharmer
Reviewer: Keith Beasley
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Any book that quotes Thich Nhat Hanh and Master Nan's reinterpretation of Confucius's Great Learning in a discourse on the evolution of Economics and Business…… Read More »
Spiritual Activism
Authors: Alastair McIntosh, Matt Carmichael
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
As I mention in my review of Terra Nova in this section, Dieter Duhm's experience of Marxism in the 1960s was that politics alone was…… Read More »
UNPRECEDENTED
Reactions to the recent Paris climate accord have been broadly positive, although with many reservations owing to its structure and lack of binding commitments. Elizabeth…… Read More »
A POLITICAL THEOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Michael Northcott has published on the environmental crisis before, this is possibly his most important book. It is based on research carried out between 2008…… Read More »
TERRA NOVA
The central theme of this visionary yet practical book is how we generate a new form of humaneness based on trust and mutual support. In…… Read More »
New Magna Carta
As readers will be aware, this year marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. Nicholas Beecroft, author of Analyse West: a Psychiatrist Takes Western…… Read More »
Common Sense
Uneasy about the ethical standards he saw around him, Tom Butler left the world of venture capitalism just over 15 years ago to devote himself…… Read More »
Science, Society and the Environment
Authors: Daniel M. Kammen, Michael R. Dove
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
This interesting book is the outcome of a collaboration between anthropology and the physics of sustainable environmental systems - between natural sciences and social sciences.…… Read More »
HENRY DAVID THOREAU – Spiritual and Prophetic Writings
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was, as Jon Sweeney rightly puts it, 'an American prophet of deliberate simplicity, nonviolence, civil disobedience and care for the planet'…… Read More »