Thomas H. Naylor

David Wann

John De Graaf

First published in 2001, Affluenza sold over 75,000 copies and inspired a movement. The book uses the metaphor of disease to address a serious subject-overconsumption. This revised edition features a new introduction and updated figures and includes a new "affluenza self-test."

The All-consuming Epidemic

Affluenza

finding real wealth in a sustainable lifestyle

Simple prosperity

In Deep Design, David Wann explores a new way of thinking about design, one that asks "What is our ultimate goal?" before the first step has even been taken. Designs that begin with such a question -- whether in products, buildings, technologies, or communities -- are sensitive to living systems, and can potentially accomplish their mission without the seemingly unavoidable side effects of pollution, erosion, congestion, and stress. Such "deep designs" meet the key criteria of renewability, recyclability, and nontoxicity. Often based on natural systems, they are easy to understand and implement, and provide more elegant approaches to getting the services and functions we need. Wann presents information gleaned from interviews with more than fifty innovative designers in a wide variety of fields, and describes numerous case studies that explain the concept and practice of deep design.

Pathways To A Livable Future

Deep Design

Explores the origins, causes, and symptoms of affluenza--society's compulsive desire to acquire--and discusses such treatment as strengthening immunity against advertising and minimizing the side effects of over-consumption.

How Overconsumption is Killing Us-- and how We Can Fight Back

Redefining Progress (Organization)

Explores the origins, causes, and symptoms of Affluenza, society's compulsive desire to acquire, and discusses such treatment as strengthening immunity against advertising and minimizing the side-effects of over-consumption.

The All Consuming Epidemic

John de Graaf

Previous editions of Affluenza described the early symptoms of the disease that led to a nearly fatal shutdown of all our financial systems in 2008. This new edition puts more focus on the behavior changes we need to make to be certain that the Great Recession does not become a prelude to something worse.

David Wann

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