BOOKS FROM FEASTA

The following books are recommended by Feasta and are available by order through your local bookseller or at your local library via the inter-library loan service.

The Sustainable Ireland Source Book
The Sustainable Ireland Source Book is a 250-page guide to green, ethical and healthy living. The Source Book highlights over 1000 exciting solution-driven initiatives, products and services available in Ireland that enhance our health, promote social justice or help us to live in a more sustainable way.
ISBN 0 9537445 0 7

'Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution,'
By Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins,
Earth Scan Publications Ltd. 1999.

'Three world-class minds. One giant leap for sustainability.' John Elkington. Natural capital refers to the natural resources and ecosystem services that make possible all economic activity, indeed all life. These services are of immense economic value; some are literally priceless, since they have no known substitutes. Yet current business practices typically fail to take into account the value of these assets-which is rising with their scarcity. As a result, natural capital is being degraded and liquidated by the wasteful use of such resources as energy, materials, water, fiber, and topsoil.

For more information on this book, further examples and notes that amplify the text, see http://www.natcap.org. You can read a full review by Malcolm Slesser here.
ISBN: 0316353000

The New Economics of Sustainable Development
In this book commissioned by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, James Robertson argues that conventional economics thinking does not provide the framework to support sustainable development. This book examines alternative economic ideas and key policy implications. Included are discussions of policies for taxation and public expenditure, changes in the monetary and financial system, and new ways of measuring and accounting for economic activity.

Transforming Economic Life, A Millennial Challenge
In this Briefing, James Robertson outlines measures for building a healthier and more equal world. He identifies key ways in which people can work together to transform the economics of food and farming, work and livelihoods, local development, travel and transport, energy, technology and international trade.

When Corporations Rule the World
David Korten. The Feasta Review is the first publication from the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability. It gathers together many of the ideas that have been circulating recently among people associated with Feasta.

The Grip of Death
A study of modern money, debt slavery and destructive economics by Michael Rowbotham. This lucid and original account of where our money comes from explains why most people, businesses and countries are so heavily in debt. It's all about subjects very close to home: mortgages, building societies and banks, food and farming, transport, worldwide poverty, and what's on the supermarket shelf. The first chapter is available online

Creating New Money
A new and valuable book from the New Economics Foundation entitled Creating New Money: A monetary reform for the information age, by Joseph Huber and James Robertson makes the case that the value created by issuing new money should be a common, not a private, resource.

Brave New Economy - How to grow a better world
CD ROM. This CD-ROM is the first multimedia resource to chart and celebrate the diverse activities that put people and the environment at the heart of economic thinking. From corporate accountability to community enterprise and from green taxes to fair trade, the CD-ROM gives users a wealth of argument, real life examples, facts, figures, ideas for action and links to hundreds of key organisations.