Jim MacNeill was the principal author of "Our Common Future". This book builds on that report to demonstrate the relationship between the global environment, the world's economy, and the international order.

Prologue: autumn aroma -- What's left? -- Arts of noticing -- Contamination as collaboration -- Some problems with scale -- Interlude: smelling -- After progress : salvage accumulation -- Working the edge "freedom" -- Open ticket, Oregon -- War stories -- What happened to the state? : two kinds...