I’m pleased to recommend Houston Futures graduate Jim Lee’s new book Resilience and the Future of Everyday Life. It’s great to see the futures studies program grads putting more and more books out there — we’re building our own library about the future.
Jim provides us with a highly engaging and readable account that points out some very serious issues looming ahead. His persistent focus on solutions, with lots of examples and stories of the positive changes already taking place, gives us hope that we’ll be up to the challenge. This is a great book for those who want to understand the challenges ahead and get a sense of what we as a society and they as individuals can do about them.
Part One lays out the challenges, with appropriately titled chapters, “Gloom,” “Doom,” and “Toward a New Culture.” Part lays out the solutions, with “Make Me a Revolution,” Homesteading,” “Community,” “Sharing More, Shopping Less,” “Radical Economics,” “Working It,” “Post-Nuclear Family,” “Retooling,” “Eldering,” and “A Path to Fulfillment.”
His knack for storytelling makes this a difficult book to put down. Enjoy! Andy Hines
