{"id":27241,"date":"2017-10-25T08:51:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27241"},"modified":"2017-10-25T08:51:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:51:25","slug":"book-of-the-day-integral-ecology-toward-a-perma-circular-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27241","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Day: Integral Ecology: Toward a Perma-Circular Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christian Arnsperger:\u00a0<\/strong>My colleague Dominique Bourg (also from the University of Lausanne) and myself have just released a new book in French, entitled\u00a0Ecologie int\u00e9grale: Pour une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 permacirculaire<\/strong><\/a><\/em>(translation:\u00a0Integral Ecology: Toward a Perma-Circular Society<\/em>), published in Paris by Presses Universitaires de France. It\u2019s the culmination of a two-year effort we engaged in between mid-2014 (when I arrived at Lausanne) and mid-2016 to spell out (a<\/em>) what sustainability really means and (b<\/em>) what the social, cultural and political conditions for the emergence of a genuinely sustainable society are. It\u2019s during this period that we published our article,\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Vers une \u00e9conomie authentiquement circulaire:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/a>R\u00e9flexions sur les fondements d\u2019un indicateur de circularit\u00e9\u201d<\/a><\/strong>(\u201cToward a Genuinely Circular Economy: Reflections on the Foundations of a Circularity Indicator\u201d), in which we first coined the word\u00a0permacircularit\u00e9<\/em>. (In French, we don\u2019t hyphenate it. I\u2019m thinking of soon going over to that spelling convention in English as well \u2013 since the related word \u201cpermaculture\u201d has no hyphen either.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Our basic intuition, which we started out by developing in a series of articles, was that a genuinely sustainable society requires a circular and regenerative economy which, as a result, needs to give up growth as it guiding and regulating principle. We adopted the insights discovered by the French engineer Fran\u00e7ois Grosse, who has\u00a0posted previously on this blog<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and who contributed a short text to our book.\u00a0<\/span>You can see the book\u2019s webpage and order it at\u00a0https:\/\/www.puf.com\/content\/Ecologie_int\u00e9grale<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

For English-speaking audiences, I need to add immediately that the way in which we use the word \u201cintegral\u201d in our book\u2019s title is rather different from the meaning that word has acquired, in the USA in particular, over the past decade.<\/p>\n

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Book of the Day: Integral Ecology: Toward a Perma-Circular Society Christian Arnsperger:\u00a0My colleague Dominique Bourg (also from the University of Lausanne) and myself have just released a new book in French, entitled\u00a0Ecologie int\u00e9grale: Pour une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 permacirculaire(translation:\u00a0Integral Ecology: Toward a Perma-Circular Society), published in Paris by Presses Universitaires de France. It\u2019s the culmination of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16671,16676,152,16601,16673,16674,16675,16603,5401,16672],"class_list":["post-27241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-building-the-open-source-circular-economy","tag-christian-arnsperger","tag-commons","tag-ethical-economy","tag-featured-book","tag-p2p-action-items","tag-p2p-books","tag-p2p-ecology","tag-sharing","tag-transition-culture-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27242,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27241\/revisions\/27242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}