[Oe List ...] A Book of Interest

[Nancy Lanphear]

Thanks for the suggestion, Randy.  Our group of 12 are finding the
Norhtwest Earth Institute study on Sustainability very helpful, painful and
fun.

Nancy

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:05 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> Several days ago I requested recommendations for education materials to
> work with local people on "why" sustainable living matters, as opposed to
> "what" it is and "how" to do it.  I am grateful for the response I received
> and want to return the favor.  On the same subject (maybe one of you first
> recommended this to me) I found a book, authored in 2011 by Frances Moore
> Lappe, entitled *EcoMind: Changing the way We Think, to Create the World
> We Want.*
> **
> In the book Lappe exposes seven "thought traps" that she suggests are
> limiting an effective response to the crises we face in matters of the
> environment, social and economic justice, and our political
> (democratic) processes.  For those of you who are working in any or all of
> these areas, check out this book to see if you might find it informative,
> as I have.  Her approach, evident in the title, is to bring about
> significant change through the change of hearts and minds, i.e. "the way we
> think."
>
> If you should read it I would be grateful if you would share your
> reflections.
>
> Randy
>
> *"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.  To change
> something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." *
> * --Buckminster Fuller*
>
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