Bright Green Future: How Everyday Heroes Are Re-Imagining the Way We Feed, Power, and Build Our World

Bright Green Future chronicles a renaissance at the edge of a crisis. As climate change shifts our planet towards an uncertain future, a movement of unlikely heroes are building a blueprint for a better world. It's a world where clean power grows wealth for local communities, resources regenerate themselves, city planning is driven by the people, and healthy soil is our greatest asset. These changemakers have opened a gateway for ordinary people to begin imagining and building the bright future we deserve. Greg Schwartz holds a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Texas, Austin, and his work focuses on cultural and technological solutions to climate change. He has lived on four continents and traveled the world extensively. Greg also has a plant-based lifestyle and is a former pro athlete, both of which inform his approach to human and planetary health. Currently he lives in California with his wife and two sons. For more about Greg, visit http://www.theplanetdoctor.com Trevor Decker Cohen is a writer who' s passionate about a better future for the planet. He's edited two books. Healthcare without Corruption provides a non-profit vision for the US healthcare system. Thermoinfocomplexity establishes a new theory on the way evolution works. Sustainability, Innovation, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Regenerative Farming, Environmental Justice, Cities, Belief Systems, Urban Development

The "metaphysical" poetry of Thomas Traherne (1636-1674) is less well known than that of his predecessors, John Donne and George Herbert, and can seem daunting both to the student of English, uncertain about his theological ideas, and to the student of theology, put off by seventeenth-century poetic conventions and diction. This book looks at Traherne's verse in its poetic context. Taught from an early age at school to translate Latin and Greek poetry into their own verses, people in many walks of life in the seventeenth century frequently turned to verse to express their own strongest feelings or to put their ideas in a nutshell, thus providing an ideal context in which to get to grips with the poetic expression of Traherne's thought. To be voluble is not only to be fluently expressive, but also have the 'capacity' to comprehend (both understand and include) all of God's creation. Traherne's understanding of the soul and its 'capacity' will be explained. Traherne's delighted comprehension takes in the latest scientific speculation about the atom and astronomy, and also the fascinating details revealed by the microscope, but does not exclude a clear-sighted view of Restoration society's materialism and - in one startlingly savage satire - the corruption of the royal court.

"Bright Green Future chronicles a renaissance at the edge of a crisis. As climate change shifts our planet towards an uncertain future, a movement of unlikely heroes is crafting a blueprint for a better world. It's a world where clean power builds wealth for local communities, resources regenerate themselves, city planning is driven by the people, and healthy soil is our greatest asset. These changemakers have opened a gateway for ordinary people to begin imagining and building the bright future we deserve" -- Back cover