A summary by Will Sutherland TZM is A Sustainability Advocacy Group which operates through a network of Regional Chapters, Project Teams,...

Soil - source of virtually all life and much more important than fossil fuel If I've said it once, I've said it twice Soil and shit are...

The first challenge for those searchiing after the "good life" is to decide just exactly what you want to do. Do you like animals and...

A book about the importance and potential of “games” for cultural change. The amazing popularity of video games shows that the “reality”...

Written in 1877 He has a very negative view of what we now call “democracy”! Where the disparity of wealth increases then universal...

This conference took place in London, March 2012. It was attended by over 3000 of the world's top scientists and its purpose was to...

This is a “meaty” book full of good material and with 33 pages of references. Why it's important The printing press (1450) radically...

The current financial problem began when a group of young bankers invented a way to parcel up risk and resell it in ways that effectively...

Summary talk The next 20 years will see bigger changes in our civilisation than have occurred over the last 1000 years. Sadly we are on...

Happiness and Well Being are not the same thing. Happiness is about being cheerful in the moment. Well Being is about flourishing and has...

Fear and desire are the twin engines of human survival but with most of our basic needs met these instincts are being engaged to imprison...

Some of my earliest memories are of fascination about how the world works. More than 60 years ago (!) I lay in my bed and looked at...

Although this book suffers from a “we should do things different” problem (words on these lines do not change things easily!), it does...

Sustainability and the consumer culture are in direct conflict. We are now locked into a set of behaviours based on fossil fuel and...

Taleb was a successful mathematical trader and is now a Professor of Uncertainty. This is a book about prediction and forecasting. Taleb...

The key argument of this book is that laws and customs are not sufficient in themselves to enable large groups of humans to live together...

The concepts in this book are as simple as they are radical. They are extremely important yet poorly understood. The book is essential...

The key insight of this work is its clarity in understanding that the development of the internet and its associated structures (like the...

This is a refreshingly honest book by an economist who is fully aware of the shortcomings of “economics” as a predictive social science....

Sources of US instability seen as: global computerised trading of capital and stocks deregulation invention of new exotic financial...