gaian economics: living well within planetary limits – book by gaia education

The new earth into which we are moving has been called by some the ‘Ecological Age’. It will be characterized by a new understanding of our place as a thread in the Web of Life, of our interconnectedness with all other living things.

Given the pivotal role of economics in defining the nature of the Industrial Age – characterized by consumerism, unsustainable exploitation of the natural world and ever-widening wealth disparities within the human family – it is here perhaps more than in any other field that we need urgently to find new ways of thinking and being in the world.

Research the Book – The Fourth Key, Gaian Economics

Featuring:

• The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community – David Korten

• Economics of Happiness – Helena Norberg-Hodge

• Financial Stability: A Case for Complementary Currencies – Margrit Kennedy

• The Saber: A Complementary Currency for Learning – Bernard Lietaer

• Buddhist Economics – E. F. Schumacher

• Sarvodaya Means ‘Everybody Wakes Up’- Joanna Macy

•  Rules for a Local Economy – Wendell Berry

•  Powerdown and Permaculture: At the Cusp of Transition – Rob Hopkins