Enough is an ancient 'master concept', which today finds renewed expression in a variety of proposals for a transition to a better world. Each one of us has an innate sense of enough; everybody can play a part in the movement of enough and at the same time improve daily well being. The book is a unique blend of ideas, practice and resources, integrating philosophy, morality, ecology, spirituality, self-help, citizenship, leadership, economics and politics.
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In future, the global economy will shrink rather than grow. There will be less of everything to go around. For anyone who wants to think through some of the changes in systems and values that will be required to maintain our humanity during this contraction, Enough is Plenty is an excellent start. --Richard Douthwaite. Founder member, Feasta: the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability; author of The Growth Illusion , Short Circuit and The Ecology of Money .
Enough is Plenty is a profound groundbreaking work of transformative learning. Anne B. Ryan has accomplished a work that explores, in depth and range, the importance of understanding of what Enough means in a local as well as a global perspective. She links ecological sustainability with pressing concerns around issues of social justice. The scholarship demonstrated in this work combines disciplined understanding with practical concerns about life styles and quality of life giving the reader a truly enriched perspective on how to live in the 21st Century. --Edmund O'Sullivan, Professor Emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, author,>Transformative Learning: Educational Vision for the 21st Century
Mick Jagger had a song that went, I can't get no satisfaction ... though I try, and I try, and I try. That says it all, for none are less contented than they who thirst even as their cup overflows. In Enough is Plenty Anne Ryan sets out pathways to replace the West's idolatrous canonisation of greed with the dignified sufficiency of enough. It's a message the world needs urgently, as the non-indigenous Celtic Tiger leaps up and bites the hand that reared it on the never-never. --Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul and Hell and High Water
A most thorough and readable analysis of why enough is plenty. --John Madeley, author of Big Business, Poor Peoples, 50 Reasons to Buy Fair Trade, and 100 ways to Make Poverty History
Enough is Plenty is a profound groundbreaking work of transformative learning. Anne B. Ryan has accomplished a work that explores, in depth and range, the importance of understanding of what Enough means in a local as well as a global perspective. She links ecological sustainability with pressing concerns around issues of social justice. The scholarship demonstrated in this work combines disciplined understanding with practical concerns about life styles and quality of life giving the reader a truly enriched perspective on how to live in the 21st Century. --Edmund O'Sullivan, Professor Emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, author,>Transformative Learning: Educational Vision for the 21st Century
Mick Jagger had a song that went, I can't get no satisfaction ... though I try, and I try, and I try. That says it all, for none are less contented than they who thirst even as their cup overflows. In Enough is Plenty Anne Ryan sets out pathways to replace the West's idolatrous canonisation of greed with the dignified sufficiency of enough. It's a message the world needs urgently, as the non-indigenous Celtic Tiger leaps up and bites the hand that reared it on the never-never. --Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul and Hell and High Water
A most thorough and readable analysis of why enough is plenty. --John Madeley, author of Big Business, Poor Peoples, 50 Reasons to Buy Fair Trade, and 100 ways to Make Poverty History
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Readers can explore how to increase the capacity for enough that already exists within all of us. This book is a unique blend of ideas, practical action and resources. It brings together philosophy, morality, ecology, spirituality, self-help, citizenship, leadership, economics and politics.
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This review is from: Enough Is Plenty: Public and Private Policies for the 21st Century (Paperback)
I'm not the politically active type, I don't want to tell people how to live their lives nor do I want someone telling me how to live mine. That being said, I can see the serious problems such as global warming and inequity that are not being addressed in any meaningful way in our current political system. I read opinion columns and watch television shows where the various viewpoints are argued and sold but while each argument may have it's own merit, on it's own it does not advance a solution. What impressed me about this book was it's multidisciplinary breakdown and ultimate synchronization of the subjects it addresses. The problems facing humanity can not be solved in one book but if one book could change the starting paradigm then this might be it.
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