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"A beautifully presented and illustrated coffee table book with 600+ full colour portrait photographs of women wearing Miranda's superb millinery creations. An inspiring read that leads us through a re-imagining of the good life into a more caring and connected world. The first two sections take an inventory of the fashion industries, collective harm on the environment and on society, challenging the apparel, fashion and textile industries to do better. Section three is a reckoning of our commercial, political and institutional realms that calls for fundamental change at every level with the central theme to involve uploading the feminine value system (the world of ""we"") into our largely left-brained asymmetrical world. Written through the authors personal lens, of a lifetime of breakdown and breakthrough, Green juxtaposes her journey, and the interminable war within her own mind, against the backdrop of a world at war with itself and at odds with nature. The Big Picture Narrative of a Sewing Machine Activist encompasses a diversity of content from a variety of disciplines. It is a rich tapestry of thoughts and im-pressions that blends theory with art and the lived experience; and which rallies around the central axiom: ""women and the feminine are vital to our planetary survival"". Blending insight and intuitive understandings with book learning, Green offers a compelling narrative of the most pressing issues of our time and how we might go about attending to them. A sweeping, big picture overview of the world that we could be."

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Miranda Green is a writer, activist and creative with a keen sense of social and environmental justice issues and a vision for civilizational renewal that involves fundamental change across all our institutions of power. Miranda's initial focus in the visual arts has been working in the textile and millinery fields which has now expanded to image making. She is currently working on an exhibition of head dress's that furthers her social & environmental activism. Miranda authored A milliner's tale: A contemporary hat story in 2006 Jeremy Williams is a writer and campaigner for environmental and social justice. He writes The Earthbound Report (twice recognised as Britain's leading green blog), is the author of Climate Change is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice, and has a sideline as a children's author. Jeremy has worked with Oxfam, WWF and RSPB and is a co-founder of the Post-Growth Institute, Sustainable St Albans, and Zero Carbon Luton. He grew up in Madagascar and Kenya, and now lives in Luton England. Jeremy is a hands on father of two children.

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