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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816878303321

Autore

LaConte Ellen

Titolo

Life rules : nature's blueprint for surviving economic and environmental collapse / / Ellen LaConte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gabriola Island, British Columbia : , : New Society Publishers, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-55092-521-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 p.)

Disciplina

330.905

Soggetti

Ecology - Economic aspects

Globalization - Economic aspects

Globalization - Environmental aspects

Environmental degradation - Economic aspects

Environmental economics

Financial crises - Environmental aspects

International economic relations - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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; Chapeter 15 : Precedents for success; Chapter 16 : Dreaming deep green, imagining the ecozoic.



Sommario/riassunto

Why so much is going wrong everywhere at once and how Life teaches us to fix it.