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Life rules : nature's blueprint for surviving economic and environmental collapse / Ellen LaConte.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LaConte, Ellen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecology--Economic aspects.
- Ecology.
- Globalization--Economic aspects.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Environmental aspects.
- Environmental degradation--Economic aspects.
- Environmental degradation.
- Environmental economics.
- Financial crises--Environmental aspects.
- Financial crises.
- International economic relations--Environmental aspects.
- International economic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (386 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Nature's blueprint for surviving economic and environmental collapse
- Place of Publication:
- Gabriola Island, British Columbia : New Society Publishers, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Why so much is going wrong everywhere at once and how Life teaches us to fix it.
- Contents:
- Part I : The real threat to life as we know it. Chapter 1 : Diagnosing a critical condition; Chapter 2 Symptoms of critical mass- making the connections; Chapter 3 Discovering the common cause; Chapter 4 : What's wrong with a global economy?: Chapter 5 : How did the economy get to be too big not to fail?; Chapter 6 : The prognosis for global solutions is poor
- Part II : How life deals with critical mass. Chapter 7 : Life's steep economic learning curve; Chapter 8 : Life is earthonomical, naturally; Chapter 9 : Life's earthonomical communities- prototypes for deep green; Chapter 10 : Life is organically democratic
- Part III : Deep green methods for surviving the global economy. Chapter 11 : Mimicking life's economics- improving the odds and our lives; Chapter 12 : Mimicking life's politics- organically democratic principles and practices; Chapter 13 : Setting a good example; Chapter 14 : How to become deeply green; Chapter 15 : Precedents for success; Chapter 16 : Dreaming deep green, imagining the ecozoic.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-55092-521-0
- OCLC:
- 818855584
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