Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order

by Thomas Princen

Book Overview

We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological,consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine adifferent way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy credit? How can we consume withoutconsuming the systems that support life? How can we live well and live within our means? In Treading Softly , Thomas Princen helps us imagine an alternative. We need, hesays, a new normal,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262014173
• ISBN13: 9780262014175
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"