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"Gold-winner in the ""Most Likely to Save the Planet"" category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY). ""This brilliant book is a big-picture synthesis of the new curriculum for activists, educators, social and systems entrepreneurs, planners, and ""community organizers"" at all levels. Evolution's Edge is vital reading for activists, educators, progressive thinkers, and anyone concerned about the state of our world. A visually pleasing book, its generous use of graphs and charts make clear concepts such as our evolutionary footprint, projected climate change impacts, world populations and economic growth."" - Kolin Lymworth, The Vancouver Observer  ""Evolution's Edge is simply outstanding - easy to read, inspiring, thoughtful. Its ability to integrate environmental challenges with spritiual issues, technological possibilites and systems evolutionary theory is fantastic. - Sohail Inayatullah, eidtor, Journal of Future Studies It is now five minutes to midnight on the doomsday clock, reflecting the fact that we are closer to assuring the obliteration of our species than we have been at any time since the early eighties. We are rapidly approaching a tipping point, where we will either transform our violent, exploitative global system into a peaceful, cooperative one, or enter a catastrophic decline. Evolution’s Edge shows that limitless economic expansion is impossible on a finite planet. Our growth-based global system will collapse as critical resources become scarce and major ecosystems fail. However, new ideas, values, and technologies can help us avoid disaster and create a better world. Using evolutionary systems theory, Evolution’s Edge explains how societies evolve and why rapid, nonlinear change is not only possible but inevitable. It describes: Collapse—how cascading crises will soon provoke system failure Transformation—how emerging technologies, ideas, values, and social organizations are supporting the evolution of a sustainable system Analysis—how societies evolve into increasingly complex and conscious systems Action—how a common, cooperative vision can accelerate constructive global change Evolution’s Edge is a practical guide to a sustainable future and is vital reading for activists, educators, progressive thinkers, and anyone concerned about the state of our world. Graeme Taylor is a social activist committed to constructive global transformation and the coordinator of BEST Futures, a project supporting sustainable solutions through researching how societies change and evolve."

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"June 2009 - Evolution's Edge has won the Gold Medal in the Independent Publisher's (IPPY) Outstanding Books of the Year Awards as the book ""Most Likely to Save the Planet"". The awards were given out at the Book Expo America gala in New York. The IPPY Awards are the world's largest - over 4000 of the best new books competed for prizes this year. Evolution's Edge was specially selected because it ""exhibits the courage and creativity necessary to take chances, break new ground, and bring about change, not only to the world of publishing, but to our society."" -- ""Evolution's Edge [is] utterly inspired... In lucid, no-nonsense prose, Graeme Taylor... spends a full half of the book explaining how to envision and create a livable future for ourselves, step-by-step. [W]ith Evolution's Edge, he's packed our bags and pointed the way. All we have to do is go."" -- Eric Larsen, Conscious Choice magazine, December 2008 -- ""...highly recommended for anyone looking for reasons for hope."" -- Thomas Homer-Dixon, Chair of Global Systems Studies at the Balsillie School of International Affairs -- ""A convincing analysis of our predicament and an inspiring synthesis of new ideas..."" -- Satish Kumar, founder of Schumacher College and editor of Resurgence Magazine -- ""Thank goodness this is not another scary, hopeless book about the future. Graeme Taylor doesn't mince words in laying out the threats to our survival... But at the same time, he lays out the course we must steer to avoid disaster, and how each of us can jump aboard before it is too late. Read it and pass it on to your kids."" -- Mary-Wynne Ashford, Past President of the (Nobel Peace Prize-winning) International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War -- ""...succeeds in being both a cautionary tale and in providing grounds for optimism. I commend it to analysts and activists everywhere."" -- Kevin Clements, Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies -- ""...one of the most absorbing books so far written on the current ecological crisis."" -- Roy LaBerge, The CCPA Monitor, November 2008"

June 2009 - Evolution's Edge has won the Gold Medal in the Independent Publisher's (IPPY) Outstanding Books of the Year Awards as the book Most Likely to Save the Planet . The awards were given out at the Book Expo America gala in New York. The IPPY Awards are the world's largest - over 4000 of the best new books competed for prizes this year. Evolution's Edge was specially selected because it exhibits the courage and creativity necessary to take chances, break new ground, and bring about change, not only to the world of publishing, but to our society. Evolution's Edge [is] utterly inspired... In lucid, no-nonsense prose, Graeme Taylor spends a full half of the book explaining how to envision and create a livable future for ourselves,step-by-step. [W]ith Evolution's Edge, he's packed our bags and pointed the way. All we have to do is go. -- Eric Larsen, Conscious Choice magazine, December 2008 highly recommended for anyone looking for reasons for hope. - Thomas Homer-Dixon, Chair of Global Systems Studies at the Balsillie School of International Affairs A convincing analysis of our predicament and an inspiring synthesis of new ideas - Satish Kumar, founder of Schumacher College and editor of Resurgence Magazine Thank goodness this is not another scary, hopeless book about the future. Graeme Taylor doesn't mince words in laying out the threats to our survival... But at the same time, he lays out the course we must steer to avoid disaster, and how each of us can jump aboard before it is too late. Read it and pass it on to your kids. - Mary-Wynne Ashford, Past President of the (Nobel Peace Prize-winning) International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War succeeds in being both a cautionary tale and in providing grounds for optimism. I commend it to analysts and activists everywhere. - Kevin Clements, Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies one of the most absorbing books so far written on the current ecological crisis. - Roy LaBerge, The CCPA Monitor, November 2008

June 2009 - Evolution's Edge has won the Gold Medal in the Independent Publisher's (IPPY) Outstanding Books of the Year Awards as the book Most Likely to Save the Planet . The awards were given out at the Book Expo America gala in New York. The IPPY Awards are the world's largest - over 4000 of the best new books competed for prizes this year. Evolution's Edge was specially selected because it exhibits the courage and creativity necessary to take chances, break new ground, and bring about change, not only to the world of publishing, but to our society. -- Evolution's Edge [is] utterly inspired... In lucid, no-nonsense prose, Graeme Taylor... spends a full half of the book explaining how to envision and create a livable future for ourselves, step-by-step. [W]ith Evolution's Edge, he's packed our bags and pointed the way. All we have to do is go. -- Eric Larsen, Conscious Choice magazine, December 2008 -- ...highly recommended for anyone looking for reasons for hope. -- Thomas Homer-Dixon, Chair of Global Systems Studies at the Balsillie School of International Affairs -- A convincing analysis of our predicament and an inspiring synthesis of new ideas... -- Satish Kumar, founder of Schumacher College and editor of Resurgence Magazine -- Thank goodness this is not another scary, hopeless book about the future. Graeme Taylor doesn't mince words in laying out the threats to our survival... But at the same time, he lays out the course we must steer to avoid disaster, and how each of us can jump aboard before it is too late. Read it and pass it on to your kids. -- Mary-Wynne Ashford, Past President of the (Nobel Peace Prize-winning) International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War -- ...succeeds in being both a cautionary tale and in providing grounds for optimism. I commend it to analysts and activists everywhere. -- Kevin Clements, Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies -- ...one of the most absorbing books so far written on the current ecological crisis. -- Roy LaBerge, The CCPA Monitor, November 2008

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Graeme Taylor is a social activist committed to constructive global transformation and the coordinator of BEST Futures, a societal evolution research project designed to help communities develop sustainable solutions.

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