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Transforming the Dream: Ecologism and the Shaping of an Alternative American Vision

by Charles Sokol Bednar (Author)
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Transforming the Dream challenges American mainstream culture's obsession with unlimited economic and industrial growth. Drawing on works by Roy Morrison, Murray Bookchin, Daniel C. Maguire, Paul Taylor, C. A. Bowers, and others, Bednar critiques the ideological status quo, offering an alternative ecological economics, political economy, ethics, and pedagogy. This new outlook on humankind's relationship to the environment is, he argues, better positioned to address critical issues of the twenty-first century, including the ecological and social limits of economic growth, the social and economic requisites for authentic democracy, the ethics of human interaction with the natural environment, and the educational curricula and practices required to promote ecological literacy. Bednar's perspective provides the opportunity to develop economic and political institutions that permit a sustainable relationship with the environment and offers a socially richer and more fulfilling life for the individual than the "American Dream" promised by the current system.
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  1. ISBN-10
    079145715X
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0791457153
  3. Publisher
    State University of New York Press
  4. Publication date
    April 1, 2003
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 0.7 x 9.46 inches
  7. Print length
    230 pages
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  • Randy0302
    5.0 out of 5 stars ECOLOGISM STARTS AT HOME!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2015
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    Incorporating Ecology into economics is vital. It starts at home. Forget the governments they do not support humanity.
    I have worm bins in my kitchen, grow some organic heirloom veggies, and recently got 5 chickens. I'm in suburbia and my neighbors love it!
    Thanks to www.phibetaiota.net for sharing this book!
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