Sustainable Society
Towards the end of his life, Rudolf Steiner devoted some serious thought to relationship between politics, economics and culture. His thinking on agriculture has been…… Read More »
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Sustainability – A History
The word sustainability has only become common currency over the last 25 years, but the idea goes back a lot further, as demonstrated in this…… Read More »
The Anthropocene
In 2000, Nobel prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen coined the geological term Anthropocene to describe our current era, succeeding the Holocene, as a period in which…… Read More »
BACKPACKING WITH THE SAINTS
Over the last 25 years, there has been a huge revival in pilgrimages along with a rising popularity of seeing life through the metaphor of…… Read More »
After Capitalism
In recent years inequalities of wealth distribution have created much concern, especially for those impoverished by the complex economic forces that lead to such inequities.…… Read More »
FREE THE CHILDREN
I first heard Craig Kielburger speak to 700 people at the State of the World Forum in San Francisco in 1997. It was an astonishing…… Read More »
THE UNSELFISH SPIRIT
Mick Collins' own remarkable spiritual journey underpins this erudite and practical book about the fundamental ecological challenge we have created with our thinking, values and…… Read More »
AN UNKNOWN WORLD
Going beyond the immediate concerns of environmentalism, Jacob Needleman asks what is the purpose of life on Earth, and what is the role of human…… Read More »
PIONEERING THE POSSIBLE
It would be a real triumph for the leap of consciousness advocated in this book if, at the fourth nomination, Scilla Elworthy were actually to…… Read More »
The Urban Caveman
Eve Gilmore spent six years developing this book as an update of the diet for the 21st-century with the strap line that giving up does…… Read More »