Life rules
Subtitle: nature's blueprint for surviving economic and environmental collapse
By: Ellen LaConte ; foreword by John Robbins
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gabriola Island, BC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780865717268
Subjects: Environmental degradation; Ecology; Financial crises; Environmental economics; Environmental aspects; Sustainable development; Globalization; International economic relations; Economic aspects
Other titles: Nature's blueprint for surviving economic and environmental collapse
Description: Examines global crises and offers solutions to those challenges.
Notes: Previous ed.: 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-353) and index.
Table of contents: title: The real threat to life as we know it : Diagnosing a critical condition ; Symptoms of critical mass : making the connections ; Discovering the common cause ; What's wrong with a global economy? : How did the economy get to be too big not to fail? ; The prognosis for global solutions is poor; title: How life deals with critical mass : Life's steep economic learning curve ; Life is earthonomical, naturally ; Life's earthonomical communities : prototypes for deep green ; Life is organically democratic; title: Deep green methods for surviving the global economy : Mimicking life's economics : improving the odds and our lives ; Mimicking life's politics : organically democratic principles and practices ; Setting a good example ; How to become deeply green ; Precedents for success ; Dreaming deep green, imagining the ecozoic.