THE TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLE LIVING AND PRACTICE ADVANCES IN ECOPOLITICS VOLUME 4 THE TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLE LIVING AND PRACTICE EDITED BY LIAM LEONARD School of Business and Humanities, Institute of Technology, Sligo, Republic of Ireland JOHN BARRY School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queens University Belfast, UK United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China Emerald Group Publishing Limited Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK First edition 2009 Copyright r 2009 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Reprints and permission service Contact:
[email protected] No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without either the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence permitting restricted copying issued in the UK by The Copyright Licensing Agency and in the USA by The Copyright Clearance Center. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the text, illustrations or advertisements. The opinions expressed in these chapters are not necessarily those of the Editor or the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-84950-641-0 ISSN: 2041-806X (Series) Awarded in recognition of Emerald’s production department’s adherence to quality systems and processes when preparing scholarly journals for print CONTENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS vii LIST OF REVIEWERS ix CHAPTER 1 THE TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABILITY: TRANSITION TOWNS AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES John Barry and Stephen Quilley 1 CHAPTER 2 TRADITIONAL LIVING PRACTICES: RETURN TO THE VILLAGES Mark Somma 29 CHAPTER 3 SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: A NEW FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE BASED ON A GLOBAL CARBON STANDARD Molly Scott Cato 55 CHAPTER 4 UTOPIAN SUSTAINABILITY: ECOLOGICAL UTOPIANISM Marius de Geus 77 CHAPTER 5 ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION: AN ANALYSIS AND TAXONOMY Gerry Nagtzaam 101 CHAPTER 6 ECOLOGICAL ACTIVISM: SUSTAINABLE LIVING, ACTIVISM AND IDENTITY Liam Leonard 117 v vi CONTENTS CHAPTER 7 ECOFEMINISM: ECOFEMINISM AND THE GREEN PUBLIC SPHERE Chaone Mallory 139 CHAPTER 8 SUSTAINABLE PLANNING: A GREEN PROTECTIONISM Colin Hines 155 CHAPTER 9 SUSTAINABILITY AND THE INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY: GREEN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES Lucy Sargisson 171 CHAPTER 10 A GREEN PHILOSOPHY OF MONEY Rupert Read 193 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS John Barry School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queens University Belfast, UK Gerry Nagtzaam Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia Marius de Geus Institute of Political Science, Leiden University, Netherlands Colin Hines Convener Green New Deal Group, Middlesex, UK Liam Leonard School of Business and Humanities, Institute of Technology, Sligo, Republic of Ireland Chaone Mallory Department of Philosophy, Villanova University, Pennsylvania, USA Stephen Quilley School of Politics, International Relations and Environment, Keele University, UK Rupert Read School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Lucy Sargisson School of Politics and International Relations, Nottingham University, UK Molly Scott Cato Cardiff School of Management, University of Wales I