Climate, Soul of the Earth
This book is a combination of deep philosophy with a highly competent survey of various aspects of the Earth's climate patterns, including El Niño and…… Read More »
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Drought - Past Problems and Future Scenarios
Authors: Eric F Wood, Justin Sheffield
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
This must be the definitive book on drought. Down the ages it has caused immense social, economic and ecological damage. The book begins with definitions…… Read More »
Wild Law
The second edition of a book first published in 2002, with a foreword by Thomas Berry. If the first edition was sobering, the second is…… Read More »
Jilted Generation
Subtitled 'how Britain has bankrupted it youth', this is a polemical but informative analysis of the plight of young people born since 1979. The baby…… Read More »
Building Cultures of Trust
There has been widespread concern about the breakdown of trust in modern society at many different levels. Writing from an American viewpoint, the author begins…… Read More »
Taking Your Soul to Work
Authors: Alvin Ung, R Paul Stevens
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Many of us are concerned about how we can best combine contemplation with action, doing with being. In this interesting book, the authors identify what…… Read More »
What is Money?
This is an unusual book, consisting as it does of a discussion held in 1984 between the artist Joseph Beuys, two professors of economics and…… Read More »
The Renewable Revolution
This book brings a holistic perspective to what the author regards as a non-energy crisis involving fuel shortages, rising prices, climate change, nuclear contamination, catastrophic…… Read More »
Renewable Energy - the Facts
Authors: Dieter Seifried, Walter Witzel
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
As the title suggests, this is the most authoritative guide to renewable energy for the interested general reader as well as the specialist. Each of…… Read More »
Nature and Altering It
These lectures examine the meanings of the nature - beginning with 16 distinctive senses of the term, which in turn imply different relationships with the…… Read More »