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Email: julietruthadams@gmail.com
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Lift Summaries
Don't have time to read a whole book?
Just ask Juliet for a summary, she has several available by email including:
"Blessed Unrest", by Paul Hawken
"Fleeing Vesuvius", by FEASTA and LE
"No More Throwaway People", by Edgar S. Cahn
"Sacred Economics", by Charles Eisenstein
"The End of Money and the Future of Civilization", by Thomas H. Greco
"The Future of Money", by Bernard Lietaer
"We the People", by John Buck and Sharon Villines
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Living Economies
| Lift Review: Changing course for life |
CHANGING COURSE FOR LIFE: Local solutions to global problems2009 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.' In each chapter there is a clear, often hard-hitting, description of issues, and suggestions on dealing with them. I think some would be particularly relevant here in Lyttelton, where many of us are working to bring about positive changes locally. Chapters that contain information particularly useful here would be: 4: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Economy - the Foundations of Human Survival; 8: Man and Animal; 9: Art, Education and Spirit: United; 10: Youth meets Wisdom; 11: Health and Medicine - Toward a Universal State of Balance; 15: Greening the City. Of course, it's best to read the whole book - which doesn't take long. Some chapters begin with great quotations, such as: Albert Einstein's "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." |
A few of LIFT's latest additions:
Fast food nation: what the all-American meal is doing to the world
Eric Schlosser
This book, by turns funny and terrifying, tells the story of fast food. The writer visits the lab that re-creates the smell of strawberries; examines the safety records of abattoirs; reveals why the fries taste so good and what really lurks between the sesame buns; portrays the alienation of millions of low-paid employees - and shows how fast food is transforming not only our diets and body sizes, but also our world.
Slow money: investing as if food, farms, and fertility mattered
Woody Tasch
"Woody Tasch has one of those fast minds that always seem to ask the right slow questions. He is on to something: a new vision of deploying capital in a way that might offer a true alternative to faster and faster, bigger and bigger, more and more global. I've been saying for years that we need to feed the soil, not the plant - slow money is about feeding the soil of the economy." Eliot Coleman
Small is possible: life in a local economy
Lyle Estill
Estill has framed an evolving community of strong interdependent local enterprises that are the foundation of a healthy environmental, social and economic system. The book is filled with newspaper columns, blog entries and essays, serving up sustainability with a hefty dose of wit and humour.
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