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Was from: Rick Crawford <crawford@CS.UCDAVIS.EDU>

For a valuable collection of concise, penetrating analyses on Sustainability,
visit the website of the International Institute for Sustainable Development:
         http://iisd1.iisd.ca/devideas/default.htm

This site includes both current and archival material from PCDForum,
the People-Centered Development Forum.
      ( or access it via   gopher://wn.apc.org/sangonet/PCDF )

PCDForum's Contributing Editors from more than 30 countries challenge
the "conventional wisdom" that has gotten us into our present mess.

Below is some info on a new PCDForum book I can *highly* recommend.
It provides a gentle, yet compelling examination of the fundamental
structural *causes* underlying the myriad symptoms of environmental
(and socio-political) degradation.  The author will be a speaker at
the upcoming public Teach-In in New York City (Nov. 10-12) on the
Social, Ecological, Cultural, and Political Costs of
ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION.

-rick    crawford@cs.ucdavis.edu
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            "WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD"

A new book by David C. Korten, "When Corporations Rule the World",
will be available in bookstores throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe,
and many other locations in September 1995. This book was written
as a project of the PCDForum to help take the analysis and vision
of the alternative development movement into the mainstream.
It is already evoking considerable excitement as demonstrated
by the following sampling of endorsements from early reviewers ...

Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate:

    "This is a 'must-read' book -- a searing indictment of an
     unjust international economic order, not by a wild-eyed
     idealistic left-winger, but by a sober scion of the
     establishment with impeccable credentials.  It left me
     devastated but also very hopeful.  Something can be done
     to create a more just economic order."


Bella S. Abzug, Cochair,
Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO):

    "Required reading for women who want to peek behind the
     curtain of the global economy and figure out how to save
     ourselves and respond to the global SOS."


David Rivard, Cofounder, California World Foundation:

    "Probably the most important economics book to come out
     since The Wealth of Nations."


Rolf Osterberg, Former Chair, Swedish Newspapers Association:

    "From the vantage point of the year 2000, this may well
     be judged the most important book of the 1990s."


John Cavanagh, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies:

    "Korten weaves together a devastating critique of the
     tyranny of the global economy with an arsenal of well-argued
     alternatives that combine vision and practicality to offer
     an empowering agenda for change."

All royalties go to support programs of PCDForum,
the People-Centered Development Forum.


If you are interested in arranging local distribution, contact:
Kumarian Press, 630 Oakwood Avenue, Suite 119, West Hartford, Connecticut
06110-1529, USA. Phone (1-203) 953-0214; Fax (1-203) 953-8579.

Inquiries about translation rights should be addressed to:
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 155 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA
94104-4109, U.S.A., phone (1-415) 288-0260 or fax (1-415) 362-2512.


David C. Korten
PCDForum -- Localize Economies! Globalize Consciousness!
(212) 620-7137; Fax (212) 242-1901


Jay
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"The market economy is replacing a complex organic
 environment with a simplified inorganic one, literally
 dissembling a biosphere that has supported humanity for
 countless millennia.  In the course of replacing the complex
 ecological relationships, on which all living things depend,
 with more elementary ones, capitalism is restoring the
 biosphere to a stage where it will be able to support only
 simpler forms of life. ... The earth will become incapable of
 supporting humanity itself." [Bookchin 1980:230-1]