Looking into the abyss -- Modern capitalism : out of control -- The limits of today's environmentalism -- The market : making it work for the environment -- Economic growth : moving to a post-growth society -- Real growth : promoting the well-being of people and nature -- Consumerism : living...

The "New Economy Movement," as Gar Alperovitz described it in The Nation, is an effort to unite the various wings of progressive politics into a coherent set of ideas and programs that will be radically different from the current free-market paradigm. The movement arises out of environmentalism:...

How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit to.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Manifesto -- Part One. A Nation in Trouble -- 2. Society at the Breaking Point -- 3. The Weight of the World -- 4. Running Out of Planet -- Part Two. In the Beauty of the Morning -- 5. America the Possible -- Part Three. Transformations -- 6. A Sustaining...