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Forecasts

By (author) Caroline E. Schuster
Illustrated by Enrique Bernardou & David Bueno
Categories: Ethnic studies
Series: ethnoGRAPHIC

Based in the agrarian world of commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, Forecasts tells a story about what happens when global insurance companies promise financial safety nets to local farmers ...

Power

By (author) Richard Heinberg
Categories: Climate change

Power traces how humans have come to overpower the earth’s natural systems and to oppress one another, with catastrophic consequences. We must rapidly re-learn the lessons of power self-limitation rooted ...

The Economics of Happiness

By (author) Mark Anielski
Foreword by Herman Daly
Categories: Environmental economics

We all know that money can’t buy you love…or happiness, but we have been living our lives as though the accumulation of wealth is the key to our dreams. Why, in spite of increasing economic prosperity ...

Misplaced Distrust

Citizens of industrialized countries largely share a sense that national and international governance is inadequate, believing not only that public authorities are incapable of making the right policy ...

Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet

By (author) Anders Hayden
Categories: Environmental economics

Anders Hayden explores how the reduction of work time can play an integral role in an alternative ecological vision. Reduced work time will help sustain the environment, and ensure increased employment, ...