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The Green reader : essays toward a sustainable society
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- Creator
- edited by Andrew Dobson ; foreword by David Gancher
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- San Francisco : Mercury House, 1991
- Physical Details
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- xii, 280 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 1562790102, 9781562790172, 9780233986531, 9780233986524, 156279017X, 0233986529, 9781562790103, 0233986537
- OCLC
- ocm23355712, ocm22311925
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Also issued online.
- The green critique -- The limits to growth / Donella Meadows -- The science of ecology / Denis Owen -- Silent sprint / Rachel Carson -- The problem of production / E.F. Schumacher -- Industrialism / Jonathon Porritt -- The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- The turning point / Fritjof Capra -- The arrogance of humanism / David Ehrenfeld -- Problems with the Enlightenment / Vandana Shiva -- The real and surrogate worlds / Edward goldsmith -- Population explosion / Sandy Irvine and Alec Ponton -- Social ecology / Murray Bookchin -- Third world poverty / Ted Trainer The green society -- Decentralization / The Ecologist -- Bioregionalism / Kirkpatric Sale -- Abandon affluence! / Ted Trainer -- Green defence / Brian Tokar -- A possible utopia / Andre Gorz -- Ecofeminism / Judith Plant -- The spiritual dimension / Walter and Dorothy Schwarz -- Frugality and freedom / William Ophuls -- Small or appropriate? / Organic farming / Lady Evelyn Barbara Balfour -- Soft energy paths / Amory Lovins -- Intermediate technology / Sustainable development / Czech Conroy and Miles Litvinoff -- Ecosocialism / Martin Ryle Green economics -- The steady-state economy / Herman Daly -- The basic income scheme / Paul Ekins -- Buddhist economics / The problems with GNP / Local money / Guy Dauncey -- Valuing the environment / David Pearce -- Depletion quotas vs. pollution taxes / Herman Daly Green political strategies -- Changing to green / The parliamentary road? (1) / Petra Kelly -- The parliamentary road? (2) / Rudolf Bahro -- Communes / The technological fix / Green education / Aldous Huxley -- Green capitalism / John Elkington and Tom burke -- Green consumerism / John Elkington and Julia Hailes -- Against green consumerism / Sandy Irvine -- Earth first! / Dave Foremand and T.O. Hellenbach -- The monkey wrench gang / Edward Abbey Green philosophy -- Animal rights / Tom Regan -- A land ethic / Aldo Leopold -- Deep ecology / Arne Naess -- Touch the Earth / North American Indians -- Future generation / Richard and Val Routley -- Green conservatism / Holism / Jan Smuts -- Women and nature / Carolyn Merchant -- Humbling the human / The Gaia hypothesis / James Lovelock Postscript -- From the golden age to the age of gold / Publis Ovid