Limits and Beyond

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 did we learn, and what happens now?

We Are the Middle of Forever

We Are the Middle of Forever

Edited by Dahr Jamail  and  Stan Rushworth 

An innovative work of research and reportage, We Are the Middle of Forever places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis.

Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons

Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons

By Mary Watkins

This timely and pathbreaking volume maps a radical model of accompaniment, exploring its profound implications for solidarity. Psychosocial and ecological accompaniment is a mode of responsive assistance that combines psychosocial understanding with political and cultural action.

Designs for the Pluriverse

Designs for the Pluriverse

By Arturo Ecobar

In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design’s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth.

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

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

by Vaclav Smil

From Earth’s nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world – and how all of this affects the planet itself – in Numbers Don’t Lie, Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using surprising statistics and illuminating graphs to challenge lazy thinking.

Commanding Hope

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 with this uplifting book. If you want to wrap your head around these troubling times without and skip the doom & gloom, start here.

SGY

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