GARDEN PLANET: The Present Phase Change of The Human Species
www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=27815
William H. Kötke
Permaculture Author
About the Book
Kötke’s new book brilliantly integrates the best contemporary research
into a compelling argument on the inevitable collapse of the consumer
empire. The argument presented is not a fuzzy doomsday prophecy but
rather a strong fact-based prediction that will leave the reader
awestruck.
Equally brilliant, however, is the “solution” that is offered. The
solution offered is not wedded to “high tech” fantasies that will invite
further mindless consumption of scarce resources.
The author carefully outlines a new culture based on self-sufficient
eco-villages, a concept that is gathering momentum and will allow a
sustainable transition from the collapse of the consumer empire.
This book delivers an important message for anyone ready to come to grips
with the impending industrial collapse.
About the Author
Author Wm. H. Kötke is widely traveled and published. His most
recent book, prior to Planet Garden, was the underground classic, The
Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and the Seed of the
Future.
He has been a journalist, a radio script writer, a pamphleteer, a
novelist, an essayist, and has had many articles published in
periodicals.
Free Preview
A new post-industrial, post-imperial world is forming under our feet.
This is a wholistic reality that will serve as the seed pattern for
future generations. This new culture represents the “graduation” of the
species to maturity and biological legitimacy. This is the exciting
direction into which we can all put our creative energies, without
reservation. This is an answer to the fading industrial world. The
sprouting seed patterns are miniature human communities that are intent
on serving most human needs, locally, within their societies. These
communities are loosely called eco-villages. These are intentional
communities which are pointed toward self-sufficiency. These
nascent institutions float on a tide of cultural creation that has been
in motion for some fifty years.
The new culture of the post industrial world has intuitively come up out
of the masses of us. No powerful group has organized projects to produce
it; it is not the result of powerful backroom planners. Since the
mid-twentieth century wholistic responses that constitute the framework
of the new culture have been created as reactions to the failing
institutions of industrial society. We are not inventing new culture from
whole cloth. It’s basic pieces have already been road tested over several
decades. What we do now is to pull all the pieces together and put them
on the ground. In this book we will examine the imminent collapse of
civilization, and we will outline the sprouts and buds of the new human
culture that is arising
Format ISBN Price
Electronic Book 1420823892 $ 3.95
Paperback (6x9) 1420823884 $ 10.25
Dust Jacket Hardcover (6x9) 1420823876 $ 16.75
Free download of the underground classic book: THE FINAL EMPIRE at: http://www.Rainbowbody.net/Finalempire