PLAN B - Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
This is the third in Lester Brown's current series of books urging the creation of an eco-economy where human economic activity is situated within a…… Read More »
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Reconciling Scientific Approaches for Organic Farming Research
This two-part monograph will be of special interest to those interested in Goethean science and its applications to agriculture. The Louis Bolk Institute has pioneered…… Read More »
Psychology and Environmental Change
A very thorough treatise on the ways in which human behaviour impinges on the environment. It sets out the many facets of our environmental problems…… Read More »
After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order
This is a very different view by a French intellectual who anticipated the fall of the Berlin wall nearly 20 years ago. His basic contention…… Read More »
The Floss on the Mill - The Re-Awakening of a Watermill
A very engaging account (by the daughter of one of the Network's founders, Dr Patrick Shackleton) of her 25 years at Otterton Mill in Devon.…… Read More »
The Atlas of Water
Authors: Jannet King, Robin Clarke
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
This is a companion volume to the equally excellent Atlas of Food. The format of text, maps, charts and diagrams enables a great deal of…… Read More »
A Pair of Cranks
Authors: E F Schumacher, Leopold Kohr
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
A series of stimulating essays by Leopold Kohr and Fritz Schumacher, originally published in Resurgence or Fourth World Review. Kohr was the first to insist…… Read More »
How to Build a Nuclear Bomb and other weapons of mass
A sober analysis of where we are on WMD and described in the Guardian as 'perhaps not a book to have in your bag as…… Read More »
Techno Feminism
A book arguing that it is feminist politics rather than technoscientific advances that are transforming the woman-machine relationship against a background where technology is by…… Read More »
Vital Signs
Subtitled 'the trends that are shaping our future, this volume is compulsory reading this year as it was last, along with its companion volume State…… Read More »