{"id":48449,"date":"2026-05-28T22:52:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=48449"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:52:03","slug":"book-ecocivilization-making-a-world-that-works-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/book-ecocivilization-making-a-world-that-works-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: “Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Jeremy Lent<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the greatest thinkers of our age” (The Guardian<\/em>) presents a new way of living\u2014one modeled on nature\u2019s design instead of capitalism’s\u2014for fans of Guns, Germs, and Steel<\/em> and Doughnut Economics<\/em><\/strong>

It has often been said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism\u2014and yet that is what the historical moment urgently calls for. Climate change has reached an emergency state, inequality continues to grow, and, for many, the future has never seemed more bleak. Incremental policy improvements are no longer enough\u2014we need a deep transformation of our current civilization to continue to survive.  

In Ecocivilization, <\/em>leading thinker Jeremy Lent reimagines the basis of our civilization, and argues for a new global system of living, one based on life-affirming principles modeled after nature\u2019s own design. What enfolds is a robust framework incorporating Lent\u2019s own expertise, and the lived experiences of those on the ground already putting ecological civilization\u2019s core tenants into practice\u2014justice, mutuality, diversity, and symbiosis. 

From the global economy to universal housing and income, from infrastructure to agriculture, every major aspect of our society could be redesigned to work together as a coherent whole, setting the conditions for all people to flourish. Ecocivilization <\/em>shows how this future on a regenerated Earth is not only desirable, but entirely feasible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the author<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Jeremy Lent<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Jeremy Lent is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization\u2019s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future.

His new book, Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All, (Melville House, May 2026), lays out the potential for a fundamentally different world system\u2014an ecocivilization based on life-affirming principles rather than principles of extraction, exploitation, and wealth accumulation. It demonstrates the specifics of an alternative, positive future available for humanity, weaving together the groundbreaking work of visionary leaders, thinkers, and communities around the world.

His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity\u2019s Search for Meaning, examines the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day. His more recent award-winning The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe offers a solid foundation for an integrative worldview that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future.

Lent has written extensively about the vision and specifics of an ecological civilization, and is a founding member of the Ecocivilization Coalition, a worldwide alliance of changemakers coming together to act as a transformation catalyst in service of this potential future. He is president of the Coalition\u2019s parent, the Institute for Ecological Civilization, and is a board member on the executive committee of the Global Compassion Coalition.

Lent is the founder and host of the Deep Transformation Network, an online global community of over 5,000 members exploring pathways toward a life-affirming future on a regenerated Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All Jeremy Lent \u201cOne of the greatest thinkers of our age” (The Guardian) presents a new way of living\u2014one modeled on nature\u2019s design instead of capitalism’s\u2014for fans of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Doughnut Economics It has often been said that it is easier to imagine… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1945],"tags":[1946,1947],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48451,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48449\/revisions\/48451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}