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Sustainable lifestyles and the quest for plenitude : case studies of the new economy /

How small, innovative grassroots groups are discovering a new kind of economy and a richer quality of life Many of today's most troubling environmental and economic issues have come to seem insoluble: carbon emissions, overshoot, inequality, joblessness, and a dysfunctional food system. Can we...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schor, Juliet (Editor ), Thompson, Craig J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Practicing Plenitude; 1 Artisanal Production, Communal Provisioning, and Anticapitalist Politics in the Aude, France; 2 The Social Forms of Local Self- Reliance: Complexities of Community in the Alaskan Transition Movement; 3 New Cultures of Connection in a Boston Time Bank; 4 How Community- Supported Agriculture Facilitates Reembedding and Reterritorializing Practices of Sustainable Consumption; 5 Raw Milk Underground: Status and Self-Sufficiency in Agro-Food Networks in the United States and Lithuania.
  • 6 Sustainable Pleasure and Pleasurable Sustainability at Chicago's Experimental Station7 Why the Sustainable Economy Movement Hasn't Scaled: Toward a Strategy That Empowers Main Street; 8 Cooperative Networks, Participatory Markets, and Rhizomatic Resistance: Situating Plenitude within Contemporary Political Economy Debates; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.