Displaying 1 of 1 2013 Format: Book Author: Magnuson, Joel. Title: The approaching great transformation : toward a livable post carbon economy / Joel Magnuson. Edition: A Seven Stories Press first edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Seven Stories Press, [2013] ©2013 Description: 232 pages ; 23 cm Summary: Explores how habitual ways of producing and consuming can be broken in a post-fossil fuels world, and outlines a philosophical blueprint for economic institutions centered on self-reliance, ecological permanence, and creativity. Subjects: Sustainable development. Environmental economics. Economics -- Sociological aspects. Renewable natural resources. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227) and index. Contents: Another sea change ; The twilight of the Oil Age ; A brief update on peaking and warming ; Our great transformation -- From transition to transformation. The origins of the Transition Movement ; Transition philosophy ; The ingredients of the transition model ; Transition projects ; Challenges to the Transition Movement ; From transition to transformation -- Economies in transition : a systems view. We are the agents of change ; Taking the bird's eye view ; What about the individual? ; Creating a new universe -- This road paved with good intentions. The economics of growth ; Rethinking green economics ; Rethinking green energy ; Rethinking localization : small is not always beautiful -- E.F. Schumacher and the meta-economists. The young Americans ; E.F. Schumacher, economist and philosopher -- The new monastics. The new monastics and crafting new institutions ; The B Lab connections ; Banking and the North Dakota and Santa Fe connections ; The urban farmer and the food resilience connection ; The local government connection ; The Colorado connection ; The cooperatives connection ; The health care connection ; The household connection -- Education and our great transformation. Developing our skills, new and old ; Reforming education for the 21st century -- Changing the way we approach change. LCCN: 2012046142 ISBN: 9781609804800 1609804805 9781609804800 (pbk.) 1609804805 (pbk.) Other Number: 795758187 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 643162 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 338.927 Magnuson Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
