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Homework for Session 6: Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth, by Juliet Schor

“Plenitude is about transition.  Change doesn’t happen overnight.  Creating a sustainable economy will take decades, and this is a strategy for prospering during that shift.  The beauty of the approach is that it is available right now.” – Juliet Schor I. THE ECONOMIC CHALLENGES WE FACE Juliet Schor argues in her book Plenitude that a […]

Cookbook: Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley

A great cookbook for eating cheap and healthy in hard times

Workbook: Your Money or Your Life

The book was published by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez in the early 1990s, and has been used widely as a tool to teach people how to put their financial life in the service of their true values.

Book: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

It provides a very comprehensive view of ecological change and its meaning for our communities.

Book: Money and Faith: The Search for Enough

Terrific resource — Money and Faith: The Search for Enough, edited and compiled by Michael Schut (available from Moorehouse Publishing, 2008).

Book: Agenda for a New Economy

Read Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, by David Korten, (Second Edition, Berrett Koehler, 2010).

Plenitude, by Juliet Schor

From Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth (Penguin, 2010) by Juliet Schor. “There is a way forward, and I call it plenitude.  The word calls attention to the inherent bounty of nature that we need to recover.  It directs us to the chance to be rich in the things that matter to us most, […]