Live Close to Home

By Peter Denton and Peter H. Denton

Stephen Legault argues that stronger local relationships, communities and economies are essential to building resilience in an environmentally unstable world.

Live Close to Home asks readers to reconsider the modern tendency to value distant systems and global connections while neglecting the places in which everyday life actually happens. Legault's central proposition is practical: meaningful change begins with the relationships, choices and institutions over which people have some direct influence.

The book extends ideas developed in his earlier works Gift Ecology and Technology and Sustainability. Where those books examined the values behind economic exchange and technological choice, this volume turns toward place, community and ecological resilience. It argues that responses to climate disruption and social instability must be rooted in local relationships rather than treated only as abstract global problems.

Written for general readers interested in sustainability and community life, the book connects environmental responsibility with local economies, personal choices and the physical places people call home.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771601825
• ISBN13: 9781771601825
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.6" x 7.1"