The Necessary Revolution
A very significant book about how individuals and organisations are working together to create a sustainable world, drawing on many actual case studies. The necessary…… Read More »
Book Reviews
Energy, Environment and Development
Authors: Jose Goldemberg, Oswaldo Lucon
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Environment / Sustainable Development
Second edition of a book first published in 1996 in the wake of the Rio meeting. It proposes an important relationship between energy, environment and…… Read More »
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
This is the third in a series of the author's books on money, and addresses the issues in the context of the wider future of…… Read More »
China and the Credit Crisis
A timely book about the emergence of a new world order in the wake of the credit crisis. Since marrying a Chinese economist working at…… Read More »
Plan Bee
A delightfully written book about the honey bee and its work, illustrated with black-and-white photos and diagrams - one depicts a beekeeper with bees all…… Read More »
When Technology Fails
Second edition of an encyclopaedic manual designed for self-reliance, sustainability and surviving what James Howard Kunstler calls the long emergency. The 15 chapters make comprehensive…… Read More »
Sky Above Earth Below
John Milton undertook his first vision quest at the age of seven in 1945, and has been developing spiritual practices in Nature ever since. This…… Read More »
Economic Renaissance
Subtitled 'holistic economics for the 21st-century', this is an informal account of a think tank held at Schumacher College towards the end of 2007. Among…… Read More »
Common Wealth - for a Free, Equal, Mutual and Sustainable
Many readers must be wondering if we can really go back to a pre-credit crunch business as usual situation. Martin Large sees the possibility of…… Read More »
Consciousness – the Science of Subjectivity
Author: Antti Revonsuo
Reviewer: David Lorimer
At last, here is an undergraduate psychology textbook that extends the field into areas not normally covered in universities, albeit at the end of the…… Read More »