DIGIRENT - The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift (MIT Press)
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The Localization Reader: Adapting From The MIT Press epub The Localization Reader: Adapting From The MIT Press pdf download The Localization Reader: Adapting From The MIT Press pdf file The Localization Reader: Adapting From The MIT Press audiobook The Localization Reader: Adapting From The MIT Press book review The Localization Reader: Adapting From The MIT Press summary | #324187 in Books | 2012-02-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.69 x6.00l,1.09 | File type: PDF | 376 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Classic text with current references|By Vivienne N. Armentrout|The Localization Reader is a thoughtful exploration of how communities can self-govern and become self-reliant. It revolves around the belief that there is a coming "downshift" because of resource depletion (especially of energy resources) and posits that localization (moving to community resilience) is the proper|||This engaging reader, with lively contextual writing by the editors, presents the best thinking about localization, going back to Fritz Schumacher, Ivan Illich, and Wendell Berry and forward to Rob Hopkins, Rachel and Stephen Kaplan, and Sharon Astyk. The
Energy supplies are tightening. Persistent pollutants are accumulating. Food security is declining. There is no going back to the days of reckless consumption, but there is a possibility -- already being realized in communities across North America and around the world -- of localizing, of living well as we learn to live well within immutable constraints. This book maps the transition to a more localized world.
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