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* Negative review at http://zone5.org/2011/04/fleeing-vesuvius-collapse-and-the-church-of-gaia-2/ | * 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. | * [[Richard Douthwaite on the Economics of Sustainability]]: Richard Douthwaite about the collection of essays he co-edited on the coming financial storm, Fleeing Vesuvius. | ||
* [http://www.theecologist.org/reviews/books/794540/fleeing_vesuvius_overcoming_the_risks_of_economic_and_environmental_collapse.html review at The Ecologist] | |||
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* 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