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Biography & Autobiography Environmentalists & Naturalists

On Gandhi's Path

Bob Swann's Work for Peace and Community Economics

by (author) Stephanie Mills

narrator David M. Adams

Publisher
Post Hypnotic Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2017
Category
Environmentalists & Naturalists
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781926910147
    Publish Date
    Jan 2017
    List Price
    $50.00
  • Downloadable audio file

    ISBN
    9780986657665
    Publish Date
    Jan 2017
    List Price
    $20.00
  • Audio disc

    ISBN
    9781926910154
    Publish Date
    Jan 2017
    List Price
    $26.00

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Bigger has not turned out better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward looks a lot like the way back — back to strong local economies, back to resilient, tight-knit communities, back to the land and work that is real.

As we chart our course through these uncertain times, we are hungry for inspiration. Robert Swann was a self-taught economist, a tireless champion of decentralism, and the father of the relocalization movement. A conscientious war resistor imprisoned for his beliefs, Bob Swann engaged in lifelong nonviolent direct action against war, racism, and economic inequity. His legacy is a vision of a life-affirming, alternative economy of peace founded on innovations in land and monetary reform.

Swann forged tools to build productive, resilient local and regional economies. Now as global industrial civilization flails in the throes of ecological and economic crisis, Swann's working innovations are at the ready to help neighborhoods, local entrepreneurs, and willing communities to rebuild at appropriate scales.

About the authors

Stephanie Mills has been an ecological activist for more than thirty years. She is an author, lecturer and longtime bioregionalist whose books include Whatever Happened to Ecology, Turning Away from Technology, Tough Little Beauties, Epicurean Simplicity, and In Service of the Wild.

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