What follows are some excerpts from the late David Fleming’s Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2016). The excerpts have been chosen by the book's editor, Shaun Chamberlin. Extensive references are given in the dictionary itself, but are omitted here. Localisation. Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative. Does that … [Read more...]
Shaun Chamberlin authored the Transition movement’s second book, The Transition Timeline, and has served as chair of the Ecological Land Co-operative and director of Global Justice Now. He has co-authored or edited a diverse collection of books, from The Moneyless Manifesto to What We Are Fighting For. For his wider work see www.darkoptimism.org.