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Chapters from the paperback
- Introduction
- Ecocriticism
- Optimisation
- Grounded Economic Awareness
- Advertising Awareness
- Transition Skills
- Commons Thinking
- Effortless Action
- Permaculture Design
- Community Gardening
- Ecological Intelligence
- Systems Thinking
- Gaia Awareness
- Futures Thinking
- Values Reflection and the Earth Charter
- Social Conscience
- New Media Literacy
- Cultural Literacy
- Carbon Capability
- Greening Business
- Materials Awareness
- Appropriate Technology and Appropriate Design
- Technology Appraisal
- Complexity, Systems Thinking and Practice
- Coping with Complexity
- Emotional Wellbeing
- Finding Meaning Without Consuming
- Being in the World
- Beauty as a Way of Knowing
- Citizen Engagement
- Re-Educating the Person
- Institutional Transformation
- A Learning Society
- Additional chapters
- Interviews
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Citizen Engagement
Citizen Engagement, Geoff Fagan, Director CADISPA at the University of Strathclyde
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It is hard to imagine what a ‘sustainable community’ would look like at a time when, through no fault of their own, people who are losing jobs, identity and quality of life feel disempowered to change their circumstance. It is especially hard for ordinary people to adopt behaviours and practices that encourage a commitment to a lighter environmental footprint when system abuse by a few key players results in hardship for the many. Had the institutions for which these players worked been grounded in the reality of every day life; had there been a connection between those large institutions and ordinary people, there is a real chance that behaviours would have been modified and a world crisis avoided. The time has come to create a shared common space in education between people and professionals and traditional and non-traditional learners.
