Mobilizing the Green Imagination

<p><b>Elegant and audacious possibilities that push the boundaries of contemporary environmentalism</b> </p><p>Dysfunctional cities catastrophic climate change ever-deepening distance from nature-today we see environmental disaster everywhere we look. In <em> Mobilizing the Green Imagination </em> philosophical provocateur Anthony Weston urges us to move beyond ever more desperate attempts to green the status quo toward entirely different and far more inviting ecological visions: </p><ul><li> Life after transportation-decentralized work inventive infill and self-sufficient micro-communities to facilitate life in place </li><li> Adaptation with attitude-cities that welcome the rising waters </li><li> A Great Second Chance-moving beyond exploitation of the whole natural world </li><li> A cosmic ecology-why not a green space program? </li></ul><p> These postcards from beyond the leading edge of today's green thinking are bold audacious extravagantly hopeful and profoundly inspiring-the perfect antidote to the despair brought on by too many doom and gloom scenarios. Nothing less than a complete reinvention of contemporary environmentalism <em> Mobilizing the Green Imagination </em> belongs in the back pocket of anyone who dares to dream of a brighter future and a better world. </p>