Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • State of the world: a year in review
  • The rise and fall of consumer cultures
  • Traditions old and new: Engaging religions to shape worldviews
  • Ritual and tattoo as ecological guardians
  • Environmentally sustainable childbearing
  • Elders: a cultural resource for promoting sustainable development
  • From agriculture to premaculture
  • Educationʹs new assignment: sustainability: Early childhood education to transform cultures for sustainability
  • Commercialism in childrenʹs lives
  • Rethinking school food: the power of the public plate
  • What is higher education for now?
  • Business and economy: management priorities: Adapting institutions for life in a full world
  • Sustainable work schedules for all
  • Changing business cultures from within
  • Social entrepreneurs: innovating toward sustainability
  • Relocalizing business
  • Governmentʹs role in design: Editing out unsustainable behavior
  • Broadening the understanding of security
  • Reinventing health care: from Panacea to Hygeia
  • Earth jurisprudence: from colonization to participation
  • Media: broadcasting sustainability: From selling soap to selling sustainability: social marketing
  • Media literacy, citizenship and sustainability
  • Music: using education and entertainment to motivate change
  • The power of social movements: Reducing work time as a path to sustainability
  • Inspiring people to see that less is more
  • Ecovillages and the transformation of values
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Boxes
  • Tables
  • Figures