Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowde...
Jeffrey D. SachsFrom one of the world's greatest economic minds, author of the New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty, a clear and vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity and an augury of the global economic collaps...
Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto
Michel BauwensNot since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a more profound transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. As capitalism faces a series of str...
Environmental Politics: A Very Short ...
Andrew DobsonEnvironmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesal...
Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathw...
Andres R. EdwardsEvery fifteen seconds on our Earth, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume eighty-five million barrels of oil and pump twenty-three million tons of carbon dioxid...
The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and...
Wayne EllwoodThe prevailing model of endless economic growth is unsustainable. This book unpicks the idea of degrowth and explores alternative visions.
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaratio...
Paul HawkenThe world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned ...
Reinventing Capitalism: How we broke ...
Freeman JonOur financial systems are broken - not fit for purpose. The evolution of capitalism has stalled and no longer meets our human needs or the conditions that we face. When we examine how our relationship with money has evolved, we c...
Local Is Our Future: Steps to an Econ...
Helena Norberg-HodgeFrom a renowned pioneer of the anti-globalization movement, a primer on working towards a localized worldFrom disappearing livelihoods to financial instability, from climate chaos to an epidemic of depression, we face crises on a numb...
Empower: How to Co-Create the Future
David PassiakEmpower is a call-to-action for humanity to work together and co-create the future, demonstrating that collaboration and sharing, community building and value creation, are not only the right thing to do, but best practices for busin...
The Age of Sustainable Development
Jeffrey D. SachsJeffrey D. Sachs has shown himself to be one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development in his groundbreaking books, including The End of Poverty and Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. Now, ...
How to Thrive in the Next Economy: De...
John Thackara"Enlightening… In thoughtful vignettes, Thackara examines numerous grassroots initiatives around the world [and] proposes 'an economy based on social energy,' that uses a very small percentage of the resources presently used…...
Carrots Don't Grow on Trees: Building...
Robert TurnerTwelve years after Michael Pollan first opened our eyes to the modern problems of the industrial food complex, organic farmer and successful businessman Robert Turner explores what has changed in our food culture and how the current '...
But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smar...
Gernot WagnerYou are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally—eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius—the planet doesn't notice. In our confrontation with climate change, species preservation, and a planet go...