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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Graeme Taylor |
ISBN: | 0865716080 9780865716087 |
OCLC Number: | 907393825 |
Language Note: | Inglés. |
Description: | 307 or. |
Contents: | Overshoot; Growing Global Crises; The Unsustainable Global Culture; The Need for a New Model; Cascading Crises and System Failure; Sustaining Development or Developing Sustainability?; Transformative Material Technologies; Transformative Ideas and Social Movements; Constructive and Destructive Responses to Crises; Future Scenarios; The Design of a Flourishing Earth Community; Tools for Transformation; Index. |
Responsibility: | Graeme Taylor. |
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June 2009 - Evolution's Edge has won the Gold Medal in the Independent Publisher's (IPPY) Outstanding Books of the Year Awards as the book "Most Likely to Save the Planet". The awards were given out at the Book Expo America gala in New York. The IPPY Awards are the world's largest - over 4000 of the best new books competed for prizes this year. Evolution's Edge was specially selected because it "exhibits the courage and creativity necessary to take chances, break new ground, and bring about change, not only to the world of publishing, but to our society." "Evolution's Edge [is] utterly inspired... In lucid, no-nonsense prose, Graeme Taylor spends a full half of the book explaining how to envision and create a livable future for ourselves,step-by-step. [W]ith Evolution's Edge, he's packed our bags and pointed the way. All we have to do is go." -- Eric Larsen, Conscious Choice magazine, December 2008 "highly recommended for anyone looking for reasons for hope." - Thomas Homer-Dixon, Chair of Global Systems Studies at the Balsillie School of International Affairs "A convincing analysis of our predicament and an inspiring synthesis of new ideas" - Satish Kumar, founder of Schumacher College and editor of Resurgence Magazine "Thank goodness this is not another scary, hopeless book about the future. Graeme Taylor doesn't mince words in laying out the threats to our survival... But at the same time, he lays out the course we must steer to avoid disaster, and how each of us can jump aboard before it is too late. Read it and pass it on to your kids." - Mary-Wynne Ashford, Past President of the (Nobel Peace Prize-winning) International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War "succeeds in being both a cautionary tale and in providing grounds for optimism. I commend it to analysts and activists everywhere." - Kevin Clements, Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies "one of the most absorbing books so far written on the current ecological crisis." - Roy LaBerge, The CCPA Monitor, November 2008 Read more...


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