Entropia View By Samuel Alexander
| Title | : | Entropia |
| Author | : | Samuel Alexander |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 204 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0987588400 |
When industrial civilisation collapsed in the third decade of the 21st century, a community living on a small island in the South Pacific Ocean found itself permanently isolated from the rest of the world With no option but to build a self sufficient economy with very limited energy supplies, this community set about creating a simpler way of life that could flourish into When industrial civilisation collapsed in the third decade of the 21st century, a community living on a small island in the South Pacific Ocean found itself permanently isolated from the rest of the world With no option but to build a self sufficient economy with very limited energy supplies, this community set about creating a simpler way of life that could flourish into the deep future Determined above all else to transcend the materialistic values of the Old World, they made a commitment to live materially simple lives, convinced that this was the surest path to genuine freedom, peace, and sustainable prosperity Seven decades later, in the year 2099, this book describes the results of their remarkable living experiment
about Author
Dr Samuel Alexander, co director of the Simplicity Institute, is a lecturer at the Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne, Australia, teaching a course called Consumerism and the Growth Economy Interdisciplinary Perspectives into the Masters of Environment He is also a Research Fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute He is author of Prosperous Descent Cri Dr Samuel Alexander, co director of the Simplicity Institute, is a lecturer at the Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne, Australia, teaching a course called Consumerism and the Growth Economy Interdisciplinary Perspectives into the Masters of Environment He is also a Research Fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute He is author of Prosperous Descent Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits 2015 and Entropia Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation 2013 , and editor of Voluntary Simplicity The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture 2009 and co editor of Simple Living in History Pioneers of the Deep Future 2014.As well as his academic work, in recent years Sam has been working on a simpler way demonstration project called Wurruk an He is also founder of the Simplicity Collective, a website and social network dedicated to exploring the relationships between voluntary simplicity, energy descent, and post growth degrowth economics Dr Alexander s PhD thesis, conducted through Melbourne Law School, is entitled Property beyond Growth Toward a Politics of Voluntary Simplicity 
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When industrial civilisation collapsed in the third decade of the 21st century, a community living on a small island in the South Pacific Ocean found
204 pagesSamuel Alexander
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