Frances Contributes: A Renewable World
The new report from the World Future Council, A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology and Equality was presented at the European Parliament in Brussels on October 13th.
A Renewable World by Miguel Mendonça
and Herbert Girardet
The report defines the key steps needed to renew the world’s natural capital and invigorate international cooperation to bring about a green recovery. Packed with examples from the United Kingdom to Abu Dabi, A Renewable World highlights how best policies and practices can result in breakthroughs that few would have predicted.
Published by Green Books (UK) in association with the World Future Council, the US edition of A Renewable World is available online from the Chelsea Green Book Store. (Softcover, ISBN: 9781900322492, $27.95)
Frances’ Contribution
Frances collaborates on the closing chapter with Jared Duval, writing that we have the capacity to take the turn towards a renewable world, where we can reconcile two things: our common desire to achieve certain living standards and our requirement to do it sustainably.
About the Authors:
Herbert Giradet is an author, consultant, filmmaker and the co-founder and program director of the World Future Council. Miguel Mendonca is the research director for the World Future Council working on research and advocacy with a focus on renewable energy policy.
Frances Moore Lappé is a founding councilor of the World Future Council.
Jared Duval is a councilor of World Future Council, the author of the forthcoming ‘Next Generation Democracy: What the Open Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change’ and a Fellow at Demos.