LIFT Library

CHANGING COURSE FOR LIFE: Local solutions to global problems

2009 JULIAN ROSE

If you don't fancy reading about the world's problems in a 200-300-400-page book, try this one - just 157 pages. It will give you a quick overview of many issues, from the perspective of a writer who has worked round the world in many places and occupations. He seeks to ‘raise awareness of the need to build a dynamic balance between economic, social and environmental concerns.'

Small is Possible: Life in a Local Economy

by Lyle Estill.

Although it's set in the USA, in North Carolina, it's highly relevant to developments here in Lyttelton. He tells of a huge number of projects in the area where he lives, which have started as bright ideas, small ventures, and gone through setbacks and made great progress.And it's so refreshing to read a writer who lightens his fascinating detail with wit and irony.

THE GREAT TURNING: From Empire to Earth Community David C. Korten

If you're interested in finding out how things have gone wrong for the world, after it started out so well, and how we can lead the change to a better world, read this book.

MONEY AS DEBT

A film by Paul Grignon  2006

Available as a DVD and on www.moneyasdebt.net

This 37 minute film will appeal to all viewers interested in the topic of money, past and present - and may even bring some viewers to become interested though they never were before.