TY - BOOK AU - LaConte,Ellen TI - Life Rules: Nature's Blueprint for Surviving Economic and Environmental Collapse SN - 9781550925210 AV - HC59.3 .L336 2012 U1 - 330.9/05 PY - 2012/// CY - Gabriola Island PB - New Society Publishers, Limited KW - Ecology-Economic aspects KW - Globalization-Economic aspects KW - Globalization-Environmental aspects KW - Environmental degradation-Economic aspects KW - Environmental economics KW - Financial crises-Environmental aspects KW - International economic relations-Environmental aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Front Cover -- Praise -- Title Page -- Rights Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by John Robbins -- Part One: The Real Threat to Life as We Know It -- Chapter 1: Diagnosing a Critical Condition -- Chapter 2: Symptoms of Critical Mass -Making the Connections -- Chapter 3: Discovering the Common Cause -- Chapter 4: What's Wrong with a Global Economy? -- Chapter 5: How Did the Economy Get to Be Too Big Not to Fail? -- Chapter 6: The Prognosis for Global Solutions Is Poor -- Part Two: How Life Deals with Critical Mass -- Chapter 7: Life's Steep Economic Learning Curve -- Chapter 8: Life Is Earthonomical, Naturally -- Chapter 9: Life's Earthonomical Communities - Prototypes for Deep Green -- Chapter 10: Life Is Organically Democratic -- Part Three: Deep Green Methods for Surviving the Global Economy -- Chapter 11: Mimicking Life's Economics - Improving the Odds and Our Lives -- Chapter 12: Mimicking Life's Politics - OrganicallyDemocratic Principles and Practices -- Chapter 13: Setting a Good Example -- Chapter 14: How to Become Deeply Green -- Chapter 15: Precedents for Success -- Chapter 16: Dreaming Deep Green, Imagining the Ecozoic -- Notes -- Appendix: Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author N2 - Why so much is going wrong everywhere at once and how Life teaches us to fix it UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5180728 ER -