Ecological Economics

In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it's difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about creating a new world, using common-sense economics?

Here are the 100 most substantive solutions to roll back climate change, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world.

Digital technology was supposed to usher in a new age of distributed prosperity, but so far it has been used to put industrial capitalism on steroids. Its not technologys fault, but that of an extractive, growth-driven,economic operating system that has reachedthe limits of its ability to serveanyone, rich or poor, human or corporate.

Can the hyper-ambitious, bottom-line-driven practices of the global economy incorporate compassion into the pursuit of wealth? Or is economics driven solely by materialism and self-interest?

Gaian Economics is the second volume in the Four Keys to Sustainable Communities series and sets out to explore how we can develop healthy and abundant societies in harmony with our finite planetary resources.

 In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place?