Vision Other Resources

Core Readings

• "Zero Carbon Britain." Link 6pp, 6min. (I consider this an evidence and reason-based response to MacKay's near-insistence upon using nukes. Link 1p., 3min.)

The creators of this site have a fairly detailed plan for bringing Britain's carbon budget into balance without reliance upon fossil fuel or nuclear fission. This summary is dense. Skim it to grasp the main ideas. Mark Jacobsen of Stanford and colleagues have developed similar proposals for each of the 50 States.

• Crabb, Peter. (2008). "Technology Traps." Link. 2pp, 5 min

Peter Crabb asserts that technology is a trap into which we've fallen, and that we're avoiding a fundamental issue of how to satisfy human wants with available resources.

• Gunter, Linda Pentz. (2013). "Pandora's False Promises: Busting the Pro-Nuclear Propaganda." Link 1p., 2min

Read executive summary. Look at whatever else you want. Yes, counterarguments are many; however, we anticipate that those who reap narrow benefit from nuclear fission power will continue to inundate us with these, and we want to expose you to a viewpoint less readily accessible.

• Monbiot, George. (2014). "The Impossibility of Growth." Link 3pp., 3 min.

Monbiot describes why collapse is inevitable and necessary.

• Rowan, Michael. (27 February 2014). "We Need to Talk About Growth." Persuade Me Link (I'm asking you to read sub-headings 1. and 10. Read more if you like.)2pp, 2min; 20pp, 20min

Australian Michael Rowan discusses the necessity for an end to growth, quoting people from Adam Smith to Sarkozy to support his case, and calculating both the consequences of various scenarios in which we continue growing and prospects for prosperity in its absence.

• Jackson, Tim. "Prosperity Without Growth." Link 9pp., 10min.

Summary of Tim Jackson's book, "Prosperity Without Growth." Look especially at Box 1 on last page. Those of you who've been asking as we moved through the quarter, "How shall we deal with all this?" may find in Jackson's proposals basis for individual and collective action.

• Alpervitz, Gar. "The Next System Question and the New Economy." Solutions. (Volume 4, #5, October 2013) Link 2pp, 3 min

Alpervitz makes a case for systemic, rather than superficial change, and gives examples of how we've already begun. The creators of this website have collected and generated much thoughtful work about where we go from here.

• "Weaving the Community Resilience and New Economy Movement: Voices from the Field." Post Carbon Institute Link 26pp., 30 min.

Almost twenty people representing organizations working to these ends collaborate to outline lessons learned and directions they're headed. I found useful their lists of approaches and common ground elements. People looking for meaningful livelihood may find these suggestive.

• Engelman, Robert. (2011). "An End to Population Growth: Why Family Planning Is Key to a Sustainable Future." Solutions for a Sustainable and Desirable Future. Link 20 min

Engelman performs a careful and well-supported analysis of the possibility and promise of ending population growth short of the 9 billion so many consider inevitable.

• "Condoms Fight Climate Change But Nobody Wants to Talk About It" Link 4pp., 4 min.

Woodrow Wilson Institute scholars describe link between population and climate change and difficulty of publicly making it.