Sustainable Planet

Can we find ways of living that are sustainable and deeply satisfying, that ensure economic and political democracy, and are passionate about beauty, elegant design, and the wildness of nature? The contributors toSustainable Planetsay we can, and offer 16 remarkable visions of how to get from here to there, including: * Specific proposals from citizen and labor coalitions that articulate a positive alternative to the free-trade model of globalization * The emergence of local food systems that allow us to eat fresher, better tasting food while protecting family farms and conserving the environment * New thinking about industrial design and engineering that is leading to production systems which generate no waste * How we might create a fashion industry that weds aesthetic pleasure with social justice * Five economic policy recommendations that could move us toward a sustainable economy * What you can do to create a real sense of community where you live * A road map for building the political will to change the system before it's too late. This anthology grew out of the work of the Center for a New American Dream (CNAD), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping Americans change the way they consume to improve quality of life, protect the environment, and promote social justice.

Juliet Schor is author of the best-selling The Overworked American and Do Americans Shop Too Much? (Beacon / 0443-X / $12.00 pb) and is on the advisory board of the Center for a New American Dream (CNAD). She is aprofessor of economics at Harvard University. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts. Betsy Taylor is executive director of CNAD and author of the forthcoming What Kids Want That Money Can't Buy. She lives in Maryland.