Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Environmental Collapse

* Book: Fleeing Vesuvius Overcoming the risks of economic and environmental collapse. edited by Richard Douthwaite and Gillian Fallon. Feasta 2010

URL = http://fleeingvesuvius.org/

Summary

"The book is layed out in seven parts: “Energy Availability”; “Innovation in business, money and finance”; “New Ways of using the land”; “Dealing with Climate Change”; “Changing the Way we live”; “Changing the Way we Think”; and “Ideas for Action”;

There are 28 contributors including economist Richard Douthwaite (author of The Growth Illusion and Short Circuit; julian Darley of the Post carbon Institute; Nate Hagens of the Oil Drum; and Reinventing Collapse author Dmitri Orlov; and with an introduction by Eamon Ryan of the Irish Green Party who had been minister for Communication, Energy and Natural Resources in the last government." (http://zone5.org/2011/04/fleeing-vesuvius-collapse-and-the-church-of-gaia-2/)

Excerpts

• Preface by Eamon Ryan, http://feasta.org/documents/fleeing_vesuvius/?p=15
• Introduction by Richard Douthwaite, http://feasta.org/documents/fleeing_vesuvius/?p=13
• Money as Energy‎ : The supply of money in an energy-scarce world. [1]
• Cap & Share: simple is beautiful

More Information

• Negative review at http://zone5.org/2011/04/fleeing-vesuvius-collapse-and-the-church-of-gaia-2/
• Richard Douthwaite on the Economics of Sustainability: Richard Douthwaite about the collection of essays he co-edited on the coming financial storm, Fleeing Vesuvius.
• review at The Ecologist