Deep Economy - Creating the new NEW normal.

[Dover]

DEEP ECONOMY............................ http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-OiTXMdyL._BO2,204,203,200_PIlitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,32,-59_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

Available now in paperback

"Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding."-Los Angeles Times

In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the compelling case for moving beyond "growth" as the paramount economic ideal and pursuing prosperity in a more local direction, with regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their own energy, and even creating more of their own culture and entertainment. Our purchases need not be at odds with the things we truly value, McKibben argues, and the more we nurture the essential humanity of our economy, the more we will recapture our own.

http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Economy-Wealth-Communities-Durable/dp/0805087222/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203525980&sr=1-1

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BLESSED UNREST: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (Hardcover)
by Paul Hawken (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Blessed-Unrest-Largest-Movement-Coming/dp/0670038520/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203525980&sr=1-3

[GliderGuider]

1. OK, that one I have to get. Thanks!

The other book you mention, Paul Hawken's "Blessed Unrest", gave me one of the small handful of hopeful ideas I've seen so far. Maybe Deep Economy will do the same.