1st Edition
Sustainable Living at the Centre for Alternative Technology Radical Ideas and Practical Solutions
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Context and Early History of the Centre for Alternative Technology
Chapter 2. From Community to Network
Chapter 3. Decision Making
Chapter 4. Communication, Education and Persuasion
Chapter 5. Zero Carbon Britain
Conclusion
Biography
Stephen Jacobs is Senior Lecturer in Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. His recent publications include The Art of Living: Foundation: Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context – a multisited ethnographic study of an international meditation organisation. He has had an interest in environmental issues and sustainability since working at the Centre for Alternative Technology in the 1980s. He was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for this project.
"We are living through a series of multiple, interrelated and international crises where climate emergency, poverty and inequality seem like wicked problems with no solution. This study offers a timely account of the ‘practical utopia’ created in the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT). The account of 50 years of innovation, survival, education and renewal offers readers hope – that practical solutions can be found to the environmental crisis, that change can happen and that alternative organisations have a central role to play in creating more inclusive and sustainable societies."
Anita Mangan, Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies, University of Bristol, UK
