Mobilizing the Green Imagination

<br> A refreshing perspective for reinventing a livable future. Weston challenges us to expand our imagination to create a better world-- one based on practical and equitable approaches for devising new solutions. This book describes alternative ways to frame the challenges before us and move forward with audacity and courage. Weston invites us to think outside the box and re-connect with what has meaning and purpose. <br>---Andres R. Edwards, Author, Thriving Beyond Sustainability and The Sustainability Revolution <p>In Mobilizing the Green Imagination, the uncommon sense that has established Anthony Weston as one of the most persuasive and unfettered voices in environmental philosophy catches fire. Incandescent with hope, this manifesto delights in an excess of technological and moral possibility, without trivialising the challenges to be faced. Leaving diatribe and doomsaying to one side and technocratic myopia to the other, Weston moves in wild leaps of imagination that enlarge the field of environmentalist practice and theory. The result is a vision of sustaining futures that are provokingly unfamiliar from a visionary who embraces our wounded world with rare empathy. <br>---Aidan Davison - University of Tasmania <br> Anthony Weston's new book Mobilizing the Green Imagination lives up to its subtitle as An Exuberant Manifesto. As he writes in the opening pages of this wonderful book, far too often people concerned for Nature and the Earth's ecosystems get tarred with a brush of depression as bearers of bad news and denial. He shows how those supporting deep changes can sing songs that are positive and joyful in their messages and actions. Weston's earlier works led him logically and spiritually to this joyful manifesto. His earlier essay on Multicentrism is brilliant in its depth and application to contemporary life on Earth. Mobilizing the Green Imagination explores creative alternatives to solving a wide range of problems to meet our m