Promise Ahead - Hardcover

Elgin, Duane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688171915 ISBN 13: 9780688171919

Publisher: William Morrow, 2000

Synopsis

Outlines four emerging "opportunity trends," including voluntary simplicity, that readers can utilize to surmount social, economic, and environmental challenges to our precarious universe. By the author of Voluntary Simplicity.

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Review

"[Promise Ahead] alert[s] us to important problems and offers suggestion[s] that are genuinely constructive."--" Christian Science Monitor"The very act of envisioning a better future can in itself initiate change. . . .Promise Ahead inspire[s] those necessary dreams."--" New Age "The opportunity trends are what make this book so special, so full of hope, so powerful. Promise Ahead delivers on its promise and deserves to be widely read."--" Napra Review"Promise Ahead is essential reading for people flooded with information yet filled with confusion. Thankfully, Duane Elgin has the courage ...to provide us with a visionary and plausible road map into the deep future."-- Vicki Robin, co-author of "Your Money or Your Life"Promise Ahead is a corrective to the negative messages about the state of our world that are prevalent today. This book deserves the attention of our entire society." -- Larry Dossey, M.D., author of "Reinventing Medicine and "Healing Words"Duane Elgin already lives the future he writes about. Elgin writes with personality, passion, and persistence. Duane Elgin is calling us on a hero's journey where we can all be heroes."-- Robert Johansen, president, Institute for the Future"Promise Ahead is a powerful message for our time, a seminal contribution to the new stroy, and essential reading for those dedicated to creating a world that works for all."-- David C. Korten, author of "The Post-Corporate World and "When Corporations Rule the World"Promise Ahead is a book for the twenty-first century with a clear message: a sustainable planet is not an unreachable goal. Elgin articulates an operating manual of possibility and hope."-- Elizabeth Dowdeswell, former director, UnitedNations Environment Program"Duane Elgin's vision of our possible future is both well researched and reasoned and offers us a rare treasure--grounds for hope."-- Sam Keen, author of "Fire in the Belly and "To a Dancing God"Promise Ahead offers us a new framework for our conscious evolution. A gem to inaugurate the twenty-first century."-- Barbara Hubbard, author of "Conscious Evolution and "The Evolutionary Journey

Synopsis

Duane Elgin's bestselling Voluntary Simplicity changed the lives of thousands and was called the "bible" of the simplicity movement by the Wall Street Journal. Now in Promise Ahead, he helps readers take the next step. Elgin outlines four emerging "opportunity trends," including voluntary simplicitythat can help surmount social, economic, and environmental challenges we all face. Other positive trends include using the Internet" to leverage swift grass-roots change, heeding scientific evidence of the delicate balance that comprises the universe, and utilizing the power of compassionate love to heal humanity's wounds. Succinct and hopeful, Promise Ahead shows how we are uniquely poised to use our ingenuity to leap into a promising future.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688171915
• ISBN 13: 9780688171919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256