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If you had to pick 4 terms to map the future, you could do a lot worse than 'relocalization,' 'empowerment,' 'community building,' and 'social justice.' This fine volume explains how they could interweave to form the fabric of a working society--in fact, a sweet one. -- Bill McKibben, author Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet Tim Stevenson makes a powerful case for both resilience and resistance in the face of our rapidly changing climate. He draws from the work of many others that have documented and decried the self-destructive and delusional path of our fossil-fueled behaviors, yet he also offers up optimism and encouragement by identifying positive actions that can and are be taken to help us change course. Tim speaks to the big picture of climate change politics and science but balances this information with descriptions of local community programs that are so necessary to engage people in action. By weaving together personal, place-based stories with factual, intellectual arguments he has created an informative and inspirational book addressing what is widely recognized as the most important issue of our time. -- Vern Grubinger, Extension Professor, University of Vermont, and coordinator, Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, USDA Tim Stevenson's compelling analysis reflects the growing awareness that greed-based, oil-soaked capitalism is perilous to people and the planet. This book lays clean a path to activation, starting at the table, where delicious local organic food starves the beast of our dollars and complicity. As the economy of war and extreme extraction provide a taste of changing climates, mass extinction and untold human suffering, it is ironic that those steeped in living sustainable lifestyles report out its enriching viability. Stevenson is not so naive to propose that individual action is enough, and not so naive to imagine corporations and government transforming without massive pressure. At the leading edge of this pressure are savvy, inclusive, caring communities fluent in post-oil solutions. -- Jim Merkel, author of Radical Simplicity Small Footprints on a Finite Earth; founder of the Global Living Project Resilience and Resistance defines the power of sustainable communities to address global climate change by how we live in relation to others. Tim Stevenson's work is an important, and very timely, voice guiding us to take care of ourselves and our community; and in doing so, how we can heal ourselves and our planet. -- Enid Wonnacott, has been the Executive Director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont NOFA-VT since 1987

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Founding Director of and community organizer with Post Oil Solutions, Tim Stevenson has done community organizing much of his adult life around such issues as welfare rights, peace & war, box stores, and nuclear power plants. He lives with his wife, Sherry, in Athens, where in their imperfect ways, they do the best they can to walk the talk. He also thinks a lot about his two children and 2 grandchildren living in a world of climate change.

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