On the Future: Prospects for Humanity

Limits and Beyond

Edited by Ugo Bardi & Carlos Alvarez Pereira In 1972, a book changed the world. The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what...

We Are the Middle of Forever

This book adds an indigenous perspective on the polycrisis–it’s perspective-shifting and adds what has been missing in polycrisis conversations. And makes the important point that the actual idea of a polycrisis is a colonial construct. Susan An innovative work of...

Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons

Mary Watkins brings together activist, archetypal, and community-based work with beauty and grace. How do we show up—for all humans and all species—in the name of peace and liberation? If this question haunts you or sparks your imagination, dig into this offering....

Designs for the Pluriverse

Arturo Escobar, thank you for being alive on this planet at this time. And, thank you for this beautiful book and elevating how we think of design—and the role it has in human culture.Susan By Arturo Ecobar In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new...

Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World

Presented as a series of short vignettes, on topics as wide ranging as the height of Japanese men to the manufacturing challenges of wind turbines, Smil’s latest work is a move away from his more traditional academic style. His emphasis remains on the importance of...

Commanding Hope

This was my starting place for polycrisis reading, and I was pleasantly surprised by how optimistic and engaging it was. I got the audio version and walked many miles listening to this uplifting book. If you want to wrap your head around these troubling times with...

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