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TEQs inventor David Fleming's masterwork finally published!
Our big news is today's release of David Fleming's
Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It
and the paperback version
Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy.
They have already received glowing praise from the likes of Caroline Lucas MP, Roger Scruton, Mark Boyle, Rupert Sheldrake, Tim Jackson, Andrew Simms, Alastair McIntosh, Jeremy Leggett, Richard Heinberg, Tim Yeo, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Paul Kingsnorth, John Holloway, John Michael Greer and many more!
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Click the cover above for David Fleming's astonishing lifework
Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It.
This will take you to Lean Logic's own dedicated webpage, where you can whet your appetite with Jonathon Porritt's foreword, David's introduction to the book and the editor's preface by our own Shaun Chamberlin.
Note that TEQs is only one of 400+ entries therein, so this book gives a MUCH broader idea of Fleming's radical vision (see sample spreads here and here).
Illustrated with over 60 wood engravings selected or commissioned by David it is what can only be described as a truly beautiful object.
You are all welcome at the London book launch on September 21st, or any events on the ongoing UK book tour. For all event details, see www.darkoptimism.org
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The Resource Cap Coalition
Meanwhile, our friends in Europe continue to pursue econometric modelling of the likely impacts of TEQs implementation at the national or European scale.
Last week they took time out to participate in the international Degrowth conference in Budapest, where they were both advocating for the importance of implementing 'hard cap' systems like TEQs, and promoting Fleming's books.
Above and below are the updated front and back of printed infographics they developed to promote the idea of energy caps at the European level (click to view).
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Our allies Drs. Tina Fawcett and Yael Parag have produced this nice 3 minute video to highlight the benefits of TEQs (aka Personal Carbon Trading)!
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Please follow our Twitter account: @TEQsUK
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Recognising that Lean Logic’s sheer size and unusual structure could be daunting, Shaun selected and edited one of the potential pathways through the dictionary to create Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy.
The content, rare insights, and uniquely enjoyably writing style remain Fleming’s, but presented here at a more accessible paperback-length and in conventional read-it-front-to-back format.
The Google Preview at the link will let you sample the early pages of the book, including Shaun's preface and Rob Hopkins' wonderful foreword. As you will see, this too is alluringly laid-out, though naturally in a far more conventional style than the full dictionary.
You are all welcome at the London book launch on September 21st, or any events on the ongoing UK book tour. For all event details, see www.darkoptimism.org
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We recently made contact with new ally Gordon Laxer, political economist and founding director of Canada's Parkland Institute.
He has been a firm advocate of TEQs for many years, and his excellent book After The Sands explores how essential the system could be in maintaining Canada's energy supply while keeping prices affordable.
For more about Laxer and his work, see this lecture transcript, or this interview with Naomi Klein.
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An unexpected side effect of Shaun's work on David Fleming's books is that the publishers - Chelsea Green - have offered him a part-time role as their Commissioning Editor for the UK/Europe.
So drop him a line if you know of any other authors/book projects that deserve a great publisher!
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Still making waves!
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Our peer-reviewed paper in the Carbon Management journal, "Beyond carbon pricing to TEQs – reconciling scientific reality with realpolitik" continues to be the most-read in the journal's history.
It has now been downloaded over 5,000 times, and remains in the top 3% most-discussed papers (across all disciplines) among the now 6.5 million tracked by Altmetric.
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