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Radical Simplicity
副标题: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth
ISBN: 9780865714731
作者: Jim Merkel
出版社: New Society Publishers
出版年: 2003-9-1
页数: 288
定价: USD 17.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Imagine you are first in line at a potluck buffet. The spread includes not just food and water, but all the materials needed for shelter, clothing, healthcare, and education. How do you know how much to take? How much is enough to leave for your neighbours behind you -- not just the six billion people, but the wildlife, and the as-yet-unborn? In the face of looming ecological disaster, many people feel the need to change their own lifestyles as a tangible way of transforming our unsustainable culture. Radical Simplicity is the first book that guides the reader to a personal sustainability goal, then offers a process to monitor progress to a lifestyle that is equitable amongst all people, species, and generations. Combining lyrical narrative, compassionate advocacy and absorbing science, Radical Simplicity is a practical, personal answer to 21st century challenges that will appeal as much to Cultural Creatives and students as to spiritual seekers, policy makers and sustainability professionals.
作者简介
Jim Merkel quit his job as a military engineer following the Exxon Valdez disaster and has since worked to develop tools for personal and societal sustainability. He founded the Global Living Project to further this work and conducts workshops around North America on this topic.
目录
Foreword Vicki Robin p. xi
Introduction p. xvii
Part I Journey to simplicity p. 1
Chapter 1 Building the Case for Global Living p. 2
Inside Ourselves p. 6
Outside Ourselves p. 6
We Have No Other Choice p. 9
Chapter 2 A Culture of Global Living p. 11
Material p. 12
Non-material p. 13
Three Sacred Cows p. 13
Lovable Limits p. 16
Chapter 3 Sustainability in Action p. 17
Learning from the Chumash p. 20
The Muir Trail p. 22
Learning from Kerala p. 26
Theories p. 33
Experiences p. 35
Practical Lessons p. 36
The Kani p. 39
Leaving Kerala p. 41
The Global Living Project p. 44
The Findings p. 45
Part II Three Tools p. 51
Chapter 4 Sharing the Earth p. 52
Living Equitably p. 54
Inter-species Equity p. 54
Inter-human Equity p. 58
Inter-generational Equity p. 62
Chapter 5 Getting Started p. 66
The Sustainability Sweatshop p. 67
Part 1 Simple Goal Setting p. 67
Part 2 Tough, Sweaty Goal Setting p. 68
Part 3 Cool-down and Visualization p. 71
Three Tools p. 72
Ecological Footprinting p. 72
Your Money Or Your Life p. 72
Learning From Nature p. 72
Whole Systems p. 73
Chapter 6 The First Tool--Ecological Footprinting p. 75
Footprinting Science p. 76
What's In a Footprint? p. 77
Calculating Footprints p. 81
How Big is My Footprint? p. 83
How Big is My Paycheck? p. 83
Quick Footprint Quiz p. 86
The Footprinting Calculator p. 94
Footprinting Language p. 95
Using the Calculator p. 96
Fine-tuning the Calculator p. 98
Making Comparisons p. 98
Footprinting p. 110
What You'll Need p. 110
A Few Questions p. 111
Step 1 Flows p. 112
Step 2 Taking Stock p. 113
Step 3 Determining Your Footprint p. 122
Chapter 7 The Second Tool--Your Money or Your Life p. 123
The Nine Steps of YMOYL p. 124
The Family of Fulfillment Curves p. 124
Four Qualities and Six Realities of "Enoughness" p. 125
Why is this Tool so Timely? p. 127
The Making of a Movement p. 128
Success Stories p. 130
Ways to Use This Tool p. 131
Financial Independence p. 131
Periodic Financial Independence p. 131
Flexible Work p. 132
A Job You Truly Believe In? p. 132
Restorative Employment p. 132
The First Five Steps p. 132
Step 1 Making Peace with the Past p. 133
Step 2 Being in the Present p. 134
Step 3 Where is it All Going? p. 134
Step 4 Three Questions that will Transform Your Life p. 135
Step 5 Making Life Energy Visible p. 136
Chapter 8 The Third Tool--Learning From Nature p. 138
Courting the Wild p. 138
Fear of Nature p. 139
Being in Nature p. 140
Secret Spot p. 140
Walking Meditation p. 141
Owl Walk p. 141
Vision Quest p. 141
Doing in Nature p. 142
Day Walks p. 142
Tracking p. 142
Overnights p. 142
Human-powered Activity p. 143
Harvesting Wild Foods and Medicines p. 143
Harvesting Fuel and Fiber p. 143
Harvesting Fertility p. 144
Vegetable Gardening p. 144
Studying Nature p. 144
Watersheds p. 144
Identification and Behavior p. 145
Ecology p. 145
Biomimicry p. 146
At Home in Nature p. 146
Part III Integration p. 149
Chapter 9 Applying the Tools p. 150
Getting Strategic p. 151
Big-ticket Items p. 151
Low-hanging Fruit p. 152
The Triple Bottom Line Test p. 154
Improving Energy Efficiency p. 156
Efficiency's Caution p. 158
Guiding Principles p. 158
Good Old-fashioned Principles p. 158
Permaculture Principles p. 159
Spiritual Principles p. 162
Chapter 10 The Wiseacre Challenge p. 164
Who Lives on One Wiseacre? p. 166
Experiencing Poverty p. 167
Wiseacre Scenarios p. 168
Wiseacre Food p. 169
Wiseacre Housing p. 173
Wiseacre Transportation p. 176
Wiseacre Goods and Services p. 178
Wiseacre Stocks p. 179
Wiseacre Wastes p. 180
Chapter 11 The One-hundred-year Plan p. 182
Freely Choosing to Have Fewer Children p. 184
The One-hundred-year Plan p. 185
Who Is Having Small Families p. 186
Making it Personal--The Options p. 188
Simplified Population Model p. 189
One-child Families p. 189
Two-child Families p. 189
Three-child Families p. 190
Family Size Versus Wild Space p. 190
Sustainability and Family Size p. 191
Chapter 12 Toward a Sustainable Future p. 193
Endnotes p. 197
Appendix A Footprint Factors p. 203
Appendix B Footprinting Worksheets p. 211
Appendix C YMOYL Worksheets p. 223
Appendix D Wiseacre Worksheets p. 234
Index p. 241
About the Author p. 249
