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Part-Time for All by Tom Malleson, Jennifer Nedelsky
An innovative view of how everyone doing part-time work and part-time caregiving would promote flourishing families, free time, equality, and …
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Everyday Utopia by Kristen R. Ghodsee
A dazzling tour through 2,000 years of audacious utopian thinking and experiments, exploring better ways to arrange our daily lives, …
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Free, Fair and Alive by Silke Helfrich, David Bollier
The power of the commons as a free, fair system of provisioning and governance beyond capitalism, socialism, and other -isms. …
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Half-Earth Socialism by Drew Pendergrass, Troy Vettese
Over the next generation, humanity will confront a dystopian future of climate disaster and mass extinction. Yet the only ‘solutions’ …
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Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs …
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The Future is Degrowth by Aaron Vansintjan, Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter
Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in …
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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
5 stars
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As …
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Palaces for the people by Eric Klinenberg
4 stars
"An eminent sociologist--and coauthor, with Aziz Ansari, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance--makes the provocative case that …
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Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein
"Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has …
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There Are No Accidents by Jessie Singer
5 stars
We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been deeply conditioned to just accept …
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4 stars
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to …
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Degrowth by Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis
Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the …