Treading Softly

Paths to Ecological Order

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ID19977921
AuthorsThomas Princen (corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages210
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTreading softly (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7551/mitpress/8573.001.0001
OpenAlexW4244424070
Open LibraryOL23688156M
ISBN9780262266079
LanguageEN
Citations received10

How to imagine and then realize an ecological order based on living within our biophysical means.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 a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy credit? How can we consume without consuming 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, he says, a new normal, an ecological order that is actually economical with resources, that embraces limits, that sees sustainable living not as a "lifestyle" but as a long-term connection to fresh, free-flowing water, fertile soil, and healthy food. The goal would be to live well by living well within the capacities of our resources. Princen doesn't offer a quick fix—there's no list of easy ways to save the planet to hang on the refrigerator. He gives us instead a positive, realistic sense of the possible, with an abundance of examples, concepts, and tools for imagining, then realizing, how to live within our biophysical means

Business · Order (exchange) · Sustainability · Sustainable Living · Computer Science · Ecology · Engineering · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems · Consumption (Economics) · Economic aspects · Environmental aspects · Environmental policy · Human ecology · Long Now Manual for Civilization · Nature · Sustainable development

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