Quakers who are experts in both technical and ethical issues provide key information, critical analysis, and thoughtful dialogue on options for future public policies on energy.

The economies of virtually all nations require growth to function. Yet more growth makes the wealthiest even wealthier, while unemployment, hunger, and violence are widespread, and human economies, in aggregate, are already larger than Earths ecosystems can continue to support. Its the Economy, Friends is aimed at understanding the dilemma that the unremitting drive for growth creates within the limited ecosystems of Earth.

Beyond the Growth Dilemma: Toward an Ecologically Integrated Economy calls attention to the enormous dilemma we face. While the U.S. economy in its current form needs growth to prosper, more growth makes the rich richer while unemployment, hunger, and violence are widespread, and human economies are already larger than Earth can continue to support. This sixth Quaker Institute for the Future pamphlet builds a framework for the changes that are needed for an ecologically integrated economy. This kind of economy leads to prosperous and thriving lives for humans and other creatures within the...

Toward a Right Relationship with Finance arose from a great dilemma. These Quaker authors and earlier QIF Focus Books have been advocating major changes to the growth economy that is failing to provide equitable well-being for humanity and a life-sustaining future for Earth. However, Quaker institutional endowments and individuals retirement are dependent on that same growth economy. This book offers background on our current economic system,frames the conversation within the context of our deepest values and beliefs, suggests plausible and historically grounded alternatives to the current...