An old man sits behind a desk in a white house on the highest ground in the county and watches a lamp burn in a window three miles down the river road. He has been watching that lamp for forty years. Tonight, he puts it out.He owns the bank. He owns the soybean to the east through three shell companies. He owns the judge's exhaustion and most of the men in the bottom and, by way of a called note coming due on Friday, the brother of the woman whose lamp is burning. He has, with the ...

An old man sits behind a desk in a white house on the highest ground in the county and watches a lamp burn in a window three miles down the river road. He has been watching that lamp for forty years. Tonight, he puts it out.He owns the bank. He owns the soybean to the east through three shell companies. He owns the judge's exhaustion and most of the men in the bottom and, by way of a called note coming due on Friday, the brother of the woman whose lamp is burning. He has, with the ...

An old man sits behind a desk in a white house on the highest ground in the county and watches a lamp burn in a window three miles down the river road. He has been watching that lamp for forty years. Tonight, he puts it out.He owns the bank. He owns the soybean to the east through three shell companies. He owns the judge's exhaustion and most of the men in the bottom and, by way of a called note coming due on Friday, the brother of the woman whose lamp is burning. He has, with the ...

Less stuff, less stress - more freedom, more joy.Our obsessive pursuit of wealth isn't working-people are afraid and anxious; we're destroying the planet, undermining happiness, and clinging to an unsustainable economy.But there's another way. Less can be More. Throughout history wise people have argued that we need to live more simply-that only by limiting outer wealth can we have inner wealth. Less is More is a compelling collection ...

Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the fastest and most profound social transformation of our time—the sustainability revolution.The Sustainability Revolution paints a picture of this largely unrecognized phenomenon from the point of view of five major sectors of societ...

Award-winning social entrepreneur and permaculturalist Adam Brock draws from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over to present more than eighty proven solutions for building healthy communities. Using the "pattern language" framework developed by architect Christopher Alexander and his colleagues in the 1970s, Brock outlines strategies for redesigning our social and economic systems to mimic nature's resilience and abundance....

**An intersectional primer for saving the planet: place-based perspectives and community-led tools for fighting climate change—for readers of The Intersectional Environmentalist and All We Can Save"An essential, inspired chorus of voices echoing the urgency of action in the fight against climate change." —Kirkus Reviews**In Climate Resilience, climate justice and resilience strategist Kylie Flanagan invites us to see and ...

Drawing on ancient Aboriginal wisdom, a leading Indigenous Australian healer and an Elder show you how to find contentment, purpose, and healing by learning to reconnect with your story—and ultimately the universe.Dr. Paul Callaghan belongs to the land of the Worimi people who live north of Sydney along the east coast of Australia. Raised to live the western way, Paul found himself mired in deep depression—struggling to find meaning while raising a family and worki...

Discover your role in the $50-trillion "clean money" revolution that is bringing true prosperity to the world.By 2050, $50 trillion will change hands in North America in the largest generational wealth transfer ever. It will remake the world and be the biggest money-making opportunity in history."Business as usual", founded on exploitation and environmental ruin, is over. Climate catastrophe, reactionary politics, and widening inequity have put the world on...

What can any one of us--as ordinary citizens--really do about climate change? A lot!Advocating for the Environment is based on a vision where all life is respected, revered, and nurtured.The shifts we need to achieve this vision are profound--from how we do business to how we educate, govern, and care--for all people and life on the planet. Written by environmental policy expert Susan B. Inches, Advocating for the Envir...

This engaging book encourages us to tap into humanity's highest ideals to solve environmental and social problems and become better people in the process.Despite significant progress in recent decades, the environmental crisis is far from over. We know what needs to change, but we don't seem to know—economically, politically, or socially—how to stop the juggernaut of destructive development and resource depletion. Something continues to undermine our efforts to bec...

We at Patagonia, like all business people, know that long-term income has to exceed long-term expense. To do otherwise is to go bankrupt, as Ernest Hemingway described,in the usual two ways: “Gradually, then suddenly.”Today we are using the equivalent resources of one and a half planets, yet we live on only one. All the indicators of earthly health are in decline: of water, air, arable land, fisheries and biodiversity. How do we reverse this decline in the quality of life (and atte...