Uit Cambridge Ltd : 130 books
Local Sustainable Homes
How to Make Them Happen in Your Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
While politicians talk about sustainable housing, thousands of individuals, groups, and organizations are busy putting ideas into practice, now pushing the boundaries to cut carbon emissions far beyond government targets. Where are the examples we can all learn from, and how are they bringing sustainable...
Communities, Councils & a Low Carbon Future
What We Can Do If Governments Won't
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The idea that councils can play a significant role in helping us to prepare for a low-carbon future may seem unlikely, but the fact is that they could be a big part of the solution. Local authorities have a duty of care to think about the future, and they can address the moral aspects as well as the...
Timeless Simplicity
Creative Living in a Consumer Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This is a book about simplicity; not destitution, parsimoniousness, or self-denial, but the restoration of wealth in the midst of an affluence in which we are starving the spirit. It is about the advantages of living a less cluttered, less stressful life than that which has become the norm in the...
by John Lane
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In this book, John Lane calls us to awaken to the possibilities of a culture that recognizes the importance of beauty, and to acknowledge that we are only fully human in contact with the beautiful. Once, people were instinctively tuned to the beautiful. In those distant days before the advent of the...
No Destination
Autobiography of a Pilgrim
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Written with a penetrating simplicity, No Destination is an exhilarating account of an extraordinary life. When he was only nine years old, Satish Kumar renounced the world and joined the wandering brotherhood of Jain monks. Dissuaded from this path by an inner voice at the age of 18, he became a...
by John Lane
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The importance of emptying the mind has been recognized for millennia across a variety of cultures. Meditation is a way of life for millions; at the end of a Hindu?s life, he renounces all and becomes a wandering ascetic, seeking union with God; and the Japanese tea ceremony provides an interlude...
Visionaries of the 20th Century
A Resurgence Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Visionaries of the 20th Century brings together the lives and works of 100 great men and women who offered inspiration, hope and healing. The 20th century was marked by wars, dictatorships and environmental destruction, yet many individuals kept alive the hope of a sane and sustainable future through...
by Leopold Kohr
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In The Breakdown of Nations Leopold Kohr shows that, throughout history, people living in small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. Virtually all our political and social problems would be greatly diminished if the world's major countries were to dissolve back into...
Sustainability
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
From diets to economic growth, everything these days has to be sustainable, and in clear and thought-provoking terms, Ulrich Grober reassesses the concept of sustainability using a range of fascinating historical instances of its application. He considers the vision of men such as Hans Carl von Carlowitz,...
Six Steps Back to the Land
Why we need small mixed farms and millions more farmers
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Practical guidance on reclaiming our food production at a time when food security is more relevant than ever The farms that are truly productive, sustainable, and resilient are the mixed, tightly integrated and low-input farms, which are complex and need a lot of skilled people to run them. These...
No Man's Land
An investigative journey through Kenya and Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book tells the story of George Monbiot's journeys among some of the tribal peoples of East Africa, showing how they are confronting the forces which threaten to deprive both them and us of the life that civilization has tried to suppress. In northern Kenya he saw how bandits, equipped by the...
Local Money
How to Make It Happen in Your Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In past recessions and depressions across the world, communities have reclaimed the power that the bankers hold by creating their own forms of money and Local Money shows how this is possible. This book is an inspiring guide that helps you understand what money is and how you can create money that...
Money & Soul
A New Balance Between Finance and Feelings
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Many people feel that money and what we perceive as the psyche, or soul, are bitter enemies: do we choose money or soul, finance or feelings, markets or common humanity? This book traces the origins of these opposing concepts and the feelings that money provokes. Economic ideas often stand out as...
The Nature of Business
Redesigning for resilience
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
This book sets out a new business paradigm.Author Giles Hutchins presents the challenges to the prevailing ‘business as usual' model, explains the pressing need for transformational change, and reveals the concepts and mindsets necessary to inspire the businesses of tomorrow.Going beyond current...