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    The approaching great transformation : toward a livable post carbon economy / Joel Magnuson.
    by Magnuson, Joel.
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    New York : Seven Stories Press, c2013.
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  • Sustainable development.
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  • Environmental economics.
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  • Economics -- Sociological aspects.
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  • Renewable natural resources.
  • ISBN: 
    9781609804800 (pbk.) :
    1609804805 (pbk.)
    Description: 
    232 pages ; 23 cm
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    A Seven Stories Press first edition.
    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.
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    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.
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