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Environmentalism: Envisioning a Sustainable and Desirable
Future
"The Political Economy of a Sustainable
and Desirable Future"
Gar Alperovitz
April 13, 2006
Dr. Alperovitz was previously Harrison Research
Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at
the University of Maryland and became the first Lionel R.
Bauman Professor of Political Economy in July 1999. He is
one of the founding principals of The Democracy Collaborative.
He also oversees the Project on General Disarmament and is
one of the founders of the Committee for the Political Economy
of the Good Society (PEGS). Dr. Alperovitz also serves as
President of the National Center for Economic and Security
Alternatives. Previously he was a Fellow of King's College
at Cambridge University, a founding Fellow of the Institute
of Politics at Harvard University, a Fellow of the Institute
for Policy Studies, a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution,
and a Guest Professor at Notre Dame University. He has also
served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives
and the U.S. Senate, and as a Special Assistant in the Department
of State. Earlier he was President of the Center for Community
Economic Development, Co-Director of The Cambridge Institute,
and President of the Center for the Study of Public Policy.
Dr Alperovitz was a Marshall Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow;
and was one of five specially designated Phi Beta Kappa Fellows
selected at the time the national bicentennial commemoration.
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Video
of Presentation
Supplemental Readings:
- Audio and video presentations and more on Gar
Alperovitz's website.
- "Another
World is Possible", article in Mother Jones
Selected Chapters Written by Gar Alperovitz:
- Democracy:
Is a Continent Too Large?
- Community,
the Environment, and the "Non-sexist" City
- The Regional
Restructuring of the American Continent
- A Twenty-Five
Hour Week?
- Beyond Super-Elites
and Conspicuous Consumption: Real Ecological Sustainability
in the 21st Century
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