Future Studies

Preface There is Only OurselvesGoing Organic, 2005A Future in the Forest 2005Earth Day, April 2006 The Syntropy Revolution, 2006Donald's Street, 2006A Bike! A Bike!The Natural Step, 2007Kamchatka's Reprieve, 2008Farewell to Toxics, 2009The Tides of Bold Bluff, 2009Cobble Hills, 2009The Dawning of the Solar Age, 2010I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas …

The Crystal Spirit, George Woodcock's intellectual biography of George Orwell, won the 1966 Governor General's Award for non-fiction. In this book he turns his attention to 1984, the novel which expresses Orwell's fears for the future, and his exhortations against totalitarianism.

First-hand experience with twentieth-century politics combines with e …

"Black women, be ready. White women, get ready. Red women, stay ready, for this is our time and all must realize it." This is a call to action by Honey, the Phoenix Radio disc jockey in Lizzie Borden's 1983 film Born in Flames. The film's themes of violence, poverty, patriarchy, racism, heterosexism, the media and feminist politics and organization …

In Revolution or Renaissance, D. Paul Schafer subjects two of the most powerful forces in the world – economics and culture – to a detailed and historically sensitive analysis. He argues that the economic age has produced a great deal of wealth and unleashed tremendous productive power; however, it is not capable of coming to grips with the pro …

Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation for the current malaise of the “politics of ecology” is that we increasingly find ourselves negotiating “technonatural” space/times. In …