It is widely assumed that our consumer society can move from using fossil fuels to using renewable energy sources while maintaining the high levels of energy use to which we have become accustomed. This book details the reasons why this almost unquestioned assumption is seriously mistaken. It challenges fundamental assumptions and stimulates the discussion about our common future in a way that will be of interest to professionals and lay-readers alike.

Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society

Business & Money

Trainer, Ted

Economics

Springer

The Conserver Society: Alternatives for Sustainability

Viewing the way of life in rich countries as unsustainable, this book looks at the forms a sustainable society might take. It shows that practical and attractive alternatives exist and that, although the transition to an ecologically sustainable and just world must involve huge changes, it could yield a higher quality of life than most people, North and South, currently experience. The book outlines the viable alternatives available regarding housing, food production, energy, the design of settlements, the development of a new economy and the shift to new values. It emphasizes throughout that the essential principles for sustainability must be more materially-simple living standards and small-scale, self-sufficient local economies. The author also discusses actual examples of alternative communities, and offers a strategy for people to begin moving their own localities in that direction.

Zed Books

<p>An analysis of the economic system that explains why a few people are getting richer, most people are getting poorer and why we are all heading for a global catastrophe. Mass poverty and hunger, unemployment, under-development, waste, armed conflict, resource scarcity and environmental destruction are all caused by the flaws in the economic system. This work shows how economic growth is seriously mistaken since it ignores finite resource and ecological limits, thereby promoting violence and injustice as well as ecological calamity. Having invalidated both "free enterprise capitalism" and "big state socialism" as viable long-term economic systems, the author puts forward an alternative, a Third Way "conserver society" that includes some of the best elements of the other two. His argument is that an economy for a sustainable world order must involved simpler living standards, a high degree of local economic self-suffiency and therefore much less transport and travel, a much smaller cash sector of the economy, more co-operative arrangements such as town banks and working bees, and many free goods from Peramculture-designed "edible landscapes".</p>

Towards a Sustainable Economy: The Need for Fundamental Change

Jon Carpenter Publishing

<p>It is widely assumed that our consumer society can move from using fossil fuels to using renewable energy sources while maintaining the high levels of energy use to which we have become accustomed. This book details the reasons why this almost unquestioned assumption is seriously mistaken. It challenges fundamental assumptions and stimulates the discussion about our common future in a way that will be of interest to professionals and lay-readers alike.</p>

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Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society

The Conserver Society: Alternatives for Sustainability

The Conserver Society: Alternatives for Sustainability

Towards a Sustainable Economy: The Need for Fundamental Change

Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society