Practicing Plenitude: Finding wealth in an era of scarcity - A talk by Juliet Schor October 6, 2010

The twin crises of economy and ecology demand a transformative set of solutions. In this lecture, Schor will lay out her vision for an ecologically-light economy based on small-scale production, re-skilling, new patterns of time use, local economic interdependence and an extension of the open-source model beyond software into hardware.

Juliet Schor is a professor of Sociology at Boston College. Her research over the last ten years has focussed on issues pertaining to trends in work and leisure, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues and economic justice. Schor's latest book is Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth (2010).

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