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>>Please pass the word about this important book.
>>Apologies for any cross-postings.
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>>New from Rowman and Littlefield Publishers:
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>>
>>DESIGNING THE GREEN ECONOMY:
>>The Postindustrial Alternative
>>to Corporate Globalization
>>
>>
>> by Brian Milani
>>with a Foreword by Thomas Berry
>>
>>
>>
>>Current trends toward corporate globalization and Casino Economics
>>have been endowed with the mantle of inevitability and economic
>>progress. The dollar-driven Information Economy has been assumed
>>to be "postindustrial". But is the current capitalist economy so
>>progressive or inevitable, or is it actually a decadent dinosaur
>>desperately trying to find ways to repress growing social and
>>ecological potentials?
>> Brian Milani argues that, not only are there alternatives
>>to corporate capitalism, but that growing human potentials can
>>be expressed only through a new paradigm of economic
>>development--the Green Economy--based in a fundamental
>>redefinition of wealth: from quantitative to qualitative, from
>>accumulation to regeneration. This redefinition presumes a
>>basic shift in progressive social change strategy from
>>opposition to alternatives--something we are already seeing,
>>but which must become more conscious and explicit.
>>
>>
>> Part 1 looks at the development of industrial society and
>>its increasingly ambivalent response to growing human potentials--
>>through the Great Depression, the Fordist Waste Economy, and
>>the contemporary global Casino economy. It highlights industrial
>>capitalism (and state socialism) as systems necessarily based in
>>scarcity and materiality; and it demonstrates the key role of waste
>>in artificially maintaining scarcity and class relationships.
>> Part 2 outlines principles of green economic development,
>>and practical potentials for postindustrial regenerative
>>development in key sectors of the economy: the built-
>>environment; the energy sector; manufacturing and resource
>>use; and money & finance. The final chapter discusses the role
>>of the state, and possibilities for decentralized community-
>>based regulation. It concludes with frank discussion of priorities
>>for economic conversion and the implications for social change
>>strategy. Community-design pattern languages, Green Municipal
>>Utilities, Eco-Industrial Parks, the Carbohydrate Economy,
>>community currencies, Citizen Assemblies and much more
>>are reviewed in this synthesis of green development strategies.
>>
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>>PRAISE FOR
>>Designing the Green Economy:
>>
>>
>>"Brian Milani's Designing the Green Economy is a very timely and
>>courageous book. The author not only gives us a very convincing and
>>well documented analysis of the reasons for the collapse of the post-war
>>Fordist economy, the rise of neoliberal Casino Capitalism and why this
>>economy produces more 'illth' than wealth. He also shows that a
>>transition to an alternative Green Economy is both necessary and
>>possible. For all those who begin to question the promises of those who,
>>in the face of global economic, ecological and social crises, still
>>continue with just 'more of the same', this book is a must."
>> MARIA MIES, co-author, The Subsistence Perspective;
>> and Ecofeminism;
>> author, Patriarchy & Accumulation on a World Scale
>>
>>
>>"A concise, deeply-researched, practical guide for shaping
>>sustainable economies."
>> HAZEL HENDERSON, author,
>> Beyond Globalization;
>> and Building a Win-Win World
>>
>>
>>"What a surprising mix of theoretical ambition and practical
>>experience! Reading this book sharpens your view on the post-
>>materialist society in the making."
>> WOLFGANG SACHS, Wuppertal Institute,
>> author, Planet Dialectics;
>> co-author, Greening the North
>>
>>
>> "Brian Milani's work is a pathbreaking contribution into the
>>alternatives opened up by the 'new materialism' and how it can
>>enhance environmental and social justice."
>> ROBIN MURRAY, author,
>> Creating Wealth from Waste
>>
>>
>>"This is an important book, both in terms of its content and its
>>intent. Soundly rooted in today's social and political context, it
>>offers a crucial perspective on technology that all people should
>>consider very seriously."
>> URSULA M. FRANKLIN,
>> author, The Real World of Technology
>>
>>
>>"Brian Milani has given us an excellent design manual - 'a
>>complete strategy for regenerative finance'-including a first
>>class analysis of community money and its part in building the
>>sustainable community."
>> MICHAEL LINTON, Landsman Community Services,
>> LETSystem founder
>>
>>
>>"An experienced builder, Milani provides not just a painstaking
>>deconstruction of industrial capitalism, but a positive ecological
>>vision: the windows on, and doors to enter, a new age of ecology."
>> WAYNE ROBERTS, co-author, Get a Life! ;
>> and Real Food for a Change
>>
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>>
>>TABLE OF CONTENTS
>>
>>
>>Foreword: Thomas Berry
>>Introduction: Dimensions of Green Economics
>>
>>
>>Part 1: Beyond Materialism: The Postindustrial
>>Redefinition of Wealth
>>1. Industrialism and Quantitative Development
>>2. Crisis & Waste: Fordism & the Effluent Society.
>>3. Post-Fordism: Casino Capitalism & the Production of Illth.
>>4. New Productive Forces & Emerging Human Potentials.
>>5. The New Ecology of Politics.
>>
>>
>>Part 2: Designing the Green Economy
>>6. Eco-Design: Principles of the Green Economy.
>>7. The Ecological Space of Flows: the Built-Environment.
>>8. Transformative Energy: the Soft Energy Path.
>>9. Living in De-Material World: Manufacturing, Resource Use
>> & Media.
>>10. True-Value Software: Regenerative Money & Finance.
>>11. The State & Beyond: Postindustrial Forms of Regulation
>>
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>>Brian Milani is research coordinator of Toronto's
>>Eco-Materials Project
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>>
>>For more information, see the Green Economics Website at :
>>http://www.greeneconomics.net
>>
>>
>>In the US: $19.95 Paperback
>>ISBN: 0-8476-9190-X
>>
>>
>>Available at your local bookstore, your R&L distributor,
>>or R&L Online:
>> http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com
>>
>>
>>in the US, contact:
>> Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
>> 4720 Boston Way, Lanham MD 20706
>> 1-800-462-6420
>>Canadian Distribution:
>> R&L / National Book Network
>> 67 Mowat Ave., Suite 241
>> Toronto ON M6K-3E3
>> (416) 534-1660
>>UK/Europe:
>> Plymbridge Distributors
>> Estover Road, Plymouth UK PL6-7PZ
>> 44-1752-202-300
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>>
>>
>>Check out other progressive new books on R&L's list
>>on the R&L website, including
>>
>>
>>Chomsky on MisEducation,
>>by Noam Chomsky, Edited and Introduced by Donaldo Macedo
>>(August, 2000)
>>
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