The Resilience Imperative : Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy.

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Resilience: The 21st-Century Imperative -- Navigating the SEE Change: The Pedagogy of Transition -- Unprecedented Volatility: A Sign of the Times -- Progress and Growth: Navigating through the Rearview Mirror -- Another Way? Five Exit Ramps -- Navigating the Transition to a Steady-State Economy -- Chapter 2 Wealth versus Commonwealth -- The Demise of Moral Economy: The Great Transformation -- Evolution of the Big "M" Market I: The Struggle for Land Reform -- Evolution of the Big "M" Market II: The Ascendency of the Corporation -- Evolution of the Big "M" Market III: Banking Masters and Debtor Slaves -- The Economics of Sufficiency: Living within the Planetary Commons -- The 21st Century: A Chapter the Living Must Write -- Chapter 3 A Path beyond Debt: Interest-Free Lending at Work -- Interest-Free Lending at Work: The JAK Cooperative Bank -- Impacts on the Household Economy: The Hartwick Family -- Transition Factors -- Resilience Reflections -- Chapter 4 Uniting the "I" and the "We": Affordable Housing in Perpetuity -- The Community Land Trust Model in the United States -- Community Land Trusts in Britain: Rekindling Land Reform in the 21st Century -- The Mutual Homeownership Model: Scaling up Urban Affordability -- The Household Economy: Land Trust Impacts on Transition -- Transition Factors -- Resilience Reflections -- Chapter 5 Seeking Strategic Pathways to Energy Sufficiency -- YES to Conserving Energy: Yorkshire Energy Services at Work -- Fossil-Fuel-Free Kristianstad -- The Impact on the Household and Community Economy -- Transition Factors -- Resilience Reflections -- Chapter 6 Seeking Pathways to Sustainable Food -- Cheap Food and Its Price -- Seikatsu: "Living People" Transforming their Relationship to Food and Each Other.

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) -- Who Will Grow Our Food? The Problem of Succession -- Solidarity and Succession: Securing Local Food -- Restoring Salmon: Restoring the Commons in Alaska -- Impacts on the Household Economy: The Hartwick Family -- Chapter 7 Reweaving Our Economies Close to Home -- The Core Economic and Social Functions -- RESO: Transforming Montreal's Poorest Neighborhoods -- Coastal Enterprises Inc. - Community Development Finance in Rural Maine -- Transition Factors -- Resilience Reflections -- Chapter 8 Convivial Banking Innovations: Seeds for Transition -- Linking Money and Debt Advice to Finance: Community Banking Partnerships -- US Credit Union Innovations: Federating Solutions -- Beyond Microcredit: Integrated Approaches that Work -- Equity Angels Grounded in Community -- Cooperative Capital in the UK - Withdrawable and Transferable Shares -- Relationship Banking from a Distance -- Low-Interest, High-Impact Lending for Vulnerable Homeowners -- Revolving Loan Funds for Affordable Housing: Risk Pooling -- Social and Ecological Banks: Investing in the Unconventional -- Transition Factors -- Resilience Reflections -- Chapter 9 Federating the Change Agents: Securing the Gains -- Reinventing the Guilds: A Way Forward? -- Constructing the Social Solidarity Economy in Quebec -- Transition Factors -- Resilience Reflections -- La Via Campesina: Building a Global Movement for Food Sovereignty -- Transition Factors -- Resilience Reflections -- Federating to Advance Fair-Trade Finance: A Transition Challenge -- Chapter 10 Economic Democracy and Cooperative Capital -- Outwitting Enclosure: The Mondragon Formula to Equity -- Democratizing Social Care in Italy -- Cooperative Energy Services: Mobilizing Green Economic Actors -- Transition Factors -- Resilience Reflections -- Chapter 11 Ownership Transfer: Accelerating Transition.

Structural Dysfunction of the Global Investment Industry -- Trusteeship: A Way out of the Enclosure -- Evolution of the Trusteeship Model: Toward a Framework for Ownership Transfer -- Transforming Property Rights: A Solution in Search of a Home -- Establishing a Cooperative Land Bank -- Implications for Reweaving Local Economies and Navigating Transition -- Transition Factors -- Resilience Reflections -- Chapter 12 From Cultural Captivity to Focused Intention -- Beyond Eden: Our Disconnect from Nature -- Transition: An Inner and Outer Journey -- Breaking the Armor of our Cultural Captivity -- The "Price" of Transition: Are We Willing to Pay Our Way? -- Weaving the Strands into a Resilient Fabric: Possible? -- Rescuing Main Street from Wall Street -- The Crucible of Home: Revisiting Household Economics -- Epilogue: The Great Transition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.

Proven strategies for a low-carbon, steady-state economy.

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