Mobilizing the Green Imagination

An Exuberant Manifesto

Anthony Weston

• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Jahr: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781550925043
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften
• Thema: Soziologie

• Author of four previous books including How to Re-Imagine the World (2007)
  
• This book emphasizes that there are alternatives to the "doom and gloom" vision of the future and that working together and trusting in imagination we open the door to multiple and spectacular options
  
• The author is a professional philosopher and leader in environmental ethics. He has published fifteen articles and three books on this subject
  
• This book is different than solutions-based books because it presents a radical environmental vision. Rather than toeing the line that says we need to, for example, radically green the transportation of energy sectors with technological and business innovations, Weston suggests that we can reconstruct a world that needs virtually no transportation and vastly less energy instead.
  
• Intended audience includes anyone interested in the future of the planet, innovative thinkers, people tired of "doom and gloom" and looking for a creative way forward, professors wanting books to provoke and engage students
  
• The majority of the visions for the future outlined in the book are directed toward developed-world nations, examples are largely North American
  
• Rethinks the familiar green program from the inside out, and aims to advance far more spirited, captivating and expansive green visions.