The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption

This book offers a fresh look at sustainable consumption, exploring how grassroots community action can spread ideas in society. It presents a "New Economics" approach based on alternative measures of wealth and value, examining how these are put into practice through local organic food systems, low-impact eco-housing, and complementary currencies.

GILL SEYFANG is an Environmental Social Scientist at the University of East Anglia, UK, working on sustainable consumption. She currently holds a Research Councils UK Academic Fellowship and is developing a research programme in Low-Carbon Lifestyles. She is co-editor of "Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights."

List of Figures	p. viii
List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction: A Consuming Issue	p. 1
Sustainable Consumption: A Mainstream Agenda	p. 27
Sustainable Consumption and the New Economics	p. 45
Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Consumption	p. 63
Sustainable Food: Growing Carrots and Community	p. 83
Sustainable Housing: Building a Greener Future	p. 112
Sustainable Currencies: Green Money from the Grassroots	p. 110
Conclusions: Seedbeds for Sustainable Consumption	p. 168
References	p. 190
Index	p. 209
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