Jonathan Dawson is a sustainability educator and activist. He has spent much of the last 20 years working in Africa and South Asia as a researcher, author, project manager and consultant, primarily in the field of small enterprise and community economic development. He lives at the Findhorn ecovillage, where he teaches sustainability studies up to undergraduate level. He is former president of the Global Ecovillage Network and former Executive Secretary of GEN-Europe. He is author of Ecovillages: New Frontiers for Sustainability. Ross Jackson, PhD, has for many years been an innovative leader in both the business and NGO worlds. He is chairman of Gaia Trust, a Danish-based charitable entity he co-founded in 1987 to promote a more sustainable and spiritual world. In his capacity as Gaia Trust Chairman, Ross, is co-founder and major funder of the Global Ecovillage Network, (GEN) and Gaia Education and has supported hundreds of sustainability projects in dozens of countries over the years. Helena Norberg-Hodge is a leading analyst of the impact of the global economy on cultures around the world. She is founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, co-founder of the International Forum on Globalization, and is a recipient of the prestigious Right Livelihood Award. She is director of the Ladakh Project, renowned for its twenty-five years of groundbreaking work in sustainable development on the Tibetan plateau.
The challenge that lies before us today as a global civilization is to find a way of living well within our means. This will require us to reorientate our values away from consumerism and towards life-affirming sustainability; to make do with less and to make much better and more efficient use of what we have; and to create systems that help us live and stay in harmony with our planet. This publication provides a wealth of views and perspectives. Containing contributions from some of today's most eminent theorists and most effective activists, it represents an overview of cutting edge thinking and practice in the evolution of an economy that serves the needs of people and planet. We hope that this reader will both inspire and empower people to learn their way to sustainability. From the Foreword by Mark Richmond Director, Division for the Coordination of UN Priorities in Education UNESCO Education Sector
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