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BOOKS FROM FEASTA
Please click here for details of books recommended by Feasta and available by order through your local bookseller or at your local library via the inter-library loan service.
The following selection of books on the topic of the economics of sustainability is available directly from the FEASTA office at 10a Lr Camden Street, Dublin 2,
Ireland
(Please check for availability before ordering)
The Feasta Review No. 2
The lead article based on new research by Dr Elizabeth Cullen 'Unprecedented
Growth - but for whose benefit?' has been described as 'crazy stuff' by the
Tanaiste Mary Harney in a Dail exchange with John Gormley TD.
Other articles gather together many of the ideas that have been circulating
among people associated with Feasta. There are also reviews of twenty
recent books on issues connected with sustainability.
Price: €15.00 (€10 for Members) plus €5 post and packing
Living in the Cracks
Nadia Johanisova takes a look at Rural Social Enterprises in Britain and the Czech Republic.
Living-and often thriving-in the cracks between the business world and the state system is an amazing variety of organisations which, according to some economists, theoretically shouldn't exist.
Price: €15.00 (€10 for Members) plus €3 post and packing
Special offer until April 30 2006 - buy two copies of this book and get a third one free! So if you are a member it
costs 20 euro for 3, whereas non members would pay 30 euro for 2, plus P& P.
The Growth Illusion (second edition)
The idea that economic growth is necessary forms the basis of the economic strategies for developed and developing nations around the globe. This fully updated and revised edition from Feasta's Richard Douthwaite demonstrates why economic growth is a prescription for disaster and suggests how to redirect our capitalist system toward more positive ends.
Price: €20 (€17 for members) plus €5.00 post and packing
 Before the Wells Run Dry - Ireland's Transition to Renewable Energy
Ed. Richard Douthwaite
The authors of this groundbreaking book include representatives from the oil, coal and nuclear industries. They discuss the approaching turning point in energy production: soon it will become necessary to switch from nonrenewable to renewable energy. The book explores possible strategies for making this change and concludes that the switch could be made within fifty years if the right decisions are made immediately.
Price: €12.95 (€10 for members) plus €5.00 post and packing
The Solar Economy (hardback)
by Herman Scheer
Price: €27.00 (€25.00 for members) plus €5.00 post and packing
The Little Earth Book
The Little Earth Book is a collection of mini-essays on today's most important environmental concerns, from global warming and poisoned food to economic growth, Third World debt, genes and 'superbugs'. The style is light, explaining complex issues with easy language, illustrations and cartoons.
Price: €8.50 (€7.50 for members) plus €2.50 post and packing
The Little Food Book
by Craig Sams
Price: €8.50 (€7.50 for members) plus €2.50 post and packing
Short Circuit
In Short Circuit Richard Douthwaite proposes that each community build an independent local economy capable of supplying the goods and services its people would need should the mainstream economy collapse. He details the financial structures necessary for self-reliance, and describes the techniques already in use in pioneering communities across the industrialized world.
This book is available online.
The Divine Right of Capital
by Marjorie Kelly
Price: €22.00 (€20.00 for members) plus €2.50 post and packing
SCHUMACHER BRIEFINGS
1. 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.
Price: €8.00 (€7.00 for members) plus €2.50 post and packing
2. Creating Sustainable Cities
by Herbert Girardet
Price: €8.00 (€7.00 for members) plus €2.50 post and packing
3. The Ecology of Health
In This Briefing, Robin Stott proposes solutions to the key problems which beset our present health system. He argues that if we are to develop a true public health service rather than a 'disease service', we must make radical changes to its decision-making process.
Price: €8.00 (€7.00 for members) plus €2.50 post and packing
4. The Ecology of Money
In The Ecology of Money, Richard Douthwaite argues that just as different insects and animals have different effects on human society and the natural world, money has different effects according to its origins and purposes. The Briefing shows that it will be impossible to build a just and sustainable world, unless and until money creation is democratized.
Price: €8.00 (€7.00 for members) plus €2.50 post and packing
5. Contraction and Convergence
This Briefing from Aubrey Meyer describes the global policy framework of 'Contraction & Convergence' (C&C), developed by a small organisation called the Global Commons Institute (GCI) to avert these trends. The C&C framework, which has been pioneered and advocated by GCI at the United Nations over the past decade, is based on the thesis of 'Equity and Survival'. It seeks to ensure future prosperity and choice by applying the global rationale of precaution, equity and efficiency in that order.
Price: €8.00 (€7.00 for members) plus €2.50 post and packing
6. Sustainable Education
by Stephen Sterling
Price: €8.00 (€7.00 for members) plus €2.50 post and packing
7. The Roots of Health
by Romy Fraser and Sanfra Hill
Price: €8.00 (€7.00 for members) plus €2.50 post and packing
8. BioRegional Solutions For Living on One Planet
If you are interested in sustainability you are probably thinking bioregionally. BioRegional Solutions brings the global and local stories together in a clear, accessible, and comprehensive overview of the economic, social and environmental effects of working bioregionally. What's more, it is an enjoyable read.
Price: €8.50 (€7.50 for Members) plus €2.50 post and packing
9. Gaian Democracies
by John Jopling and Roy Madron
Price: €8.50 (€7.50 for members) plus €2.50 post and packing
Books can be ordered by post from the FEASTA office, 10a Lr Camden Street, Dublin 2,
Ireland. There are discounts on book orders if you are a member of Feasta - the
member/non member price is shown after each book. Why not join Feasta and
avail of these discounts? Membership costs ¤20 pa (concession rate ¤10 for
students etc). Just add on the relevant subcription rate to your book
payment.
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