Enjoy For Free The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions To A Steady-state Economy Illustrated By Michael Lewis Presented In Multimedia Book

truly inspiring book. I highly recommend it to those who are interested in the subject of Transition, Or to those who realize that our system is broken but don't know what the alternatives might be, It had the desired effect and got me all fired up and ready to get to work,

We find ourselves between a rock and a hot placecompelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale.
The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE social, ecological, economic change as a prerequisite for replacing the paradigm of limitless economic growth with a more decentralized, cooperative, steadystate economy.


The authors present a comprehensive series of strategic questions within the broad areas of:


Energy sufficiency
Local food systems
Interestfree financing
Affordable housing and land reform
Sustainable community development
Each section is complemented by case studies of pioneering community initiatives rounded out by a discussion of transition factors and resilience reflections.


With a focus on securing and sustaining change, this provocative book challenges deeply embedded cultural assumptions, Profoundly hopeful and inspiring, The Resilience Imperative

affirms the possibilities of positive change as it is shaped by individuals, communities, and institutions learning to live within our ecological limits.


Michael Lewis is the executive director of the Center for Community Enterprise and is wellknown internationally as a practitioner, author, educator, and leader in the field of community economic development.


Patrick Conaty is an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham and a director of Common Futures.
Sincehe has worked for the new economics foundation nef, where he has produced a wide range of publications about predatory lending, financial inclusion, community land trusts, and social venture finance.



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