[Scpg] New Book Future Scenarios How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change by David Holmgren

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Future Scenarios
How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change
by David Holmgren

www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/future_scenarios:paperback

In Future Scenarios, permaculture co-originator and leading 
sustainability innovator David Holmgren outlines four scenarios that 
bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural, and 
economic implications of peak oil and climate change, and the 
generations-long era of "energy descent" that faces us.
"Scenario planning," Holmgren explains, "allows us to use stories 
about the future as a reference point for imagining how particular 
strategies and structures might thrive, fail, or be transformed."
Future Scenarios depicts four very different futures. Each is a 
permutation of mild or destructive climate change, combined with 
either slow or severe energy declines. Probable futures, explains 
Holmgren, range from the relatively benign Green Tech scenario to the 
near catastrophic Lifeboats scenario.
As Adam Grubb, founder of the influential Energy Bulletin Web site, 
says, "These aren't two-dimensional nightmarish scenarios designed to 
scare people into environmental action. They are compellingly 
fleshed-out visions of quite plausible alternative futures, which 
delve into energy, politics, agriculture, social, and even spiritual 
trends. What they do help make clear are the best strategies for 
preparing for and adapting to these possible futures."
Future Scenarios provides brilliant and balanced consideration of the 
world's options and will prove to be one of the most important books 
of the year.

David Holmgren

David Holmgren is best known as the co-originator with Bill Mollison 
of the permaculture concept following the publication of 
"Permaculture One" in 1978. Since then he has written several more 
books, developed three properties using permaculture principles, 
conducted workshops and courses in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and 
Japan. Within the growing and international permaculture movement, 
David is respected for his commitment to presenting permaculture 
ideas through practical projects and teaching by personal example, 
that a sustainable lifestyle is a realistic, attractive and powerful 
alternative to dependant consumerism. As well as constant involvement 
in the practical side of permaculture, David is passionate about the 
philosophical and conceptual foundations for sustainability which are 
highlighted in his latest book, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways 
Beyond Sustainability. With this book already on its second print 
run, and an increasingly high profile as a public speaker, David 
Holmgren provides leadership with his refreshing and unorthodox 
approach to the environmental issues of our time.

David lives with his partner Su Dennett and their son Oliver at 
"Melliodora", a one-hectare permaculture demonstration site at 
Hepburn Springs, Central Victoria, Australia. Visit his web site at 
www.holmgren.com.au.

Book Data
ISBN: 9781603580892
Year Added to Catalog: 2008
Book Format: Paperback
Book Art: Color illustrations and graphs
Dimensions: 5 x 8
Number of Pages: 144
Book Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Web Product ID: 438
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