John Pontin: 2 books
The Converging World
How One Community's Path to Zero Waste is Helping Save Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
THE CONVERGING WORLD tells the incredible story of one community's attempt to change their world for the better. Faced with the challenge of making the English village of Chew Magna a 'zero waste' society, Pontin developed a groundbreaking non-profit scheme that twinned them with Tamil Nadu, a poor...
Converging World
Connecting Communities in Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
The Converging World is based on the principle of ‘contraction and convergence’ in regard to climate change, which means reducing the ecological footprint of some while increasing that of others. As the pressures of population and consumption are stretching the planet’s capacity beyond its limits,...