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sustainability approach: the Global Action Plan, the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker), and the permaculture movement. The successful experience of these groups offers real hope and potential for lessons to be spread and taught. As Global Action Plan discovered over time, a collective, community-based approach can be very effective. Like many anthologies, the eleven papers are wide ranging, but they are generally of high caliber. The book would be of interest to anyone interested in new work on consumption from an environmental perspective. If there is a central takeaway of the book, it is that this area of research is rapidly growing, for good reason. The world's natural scientists are converging on compelling evidence of humanity's deleterious impact on the planet, and we need multidisciplinary approaches that dive into both theory and concrete strategies for grappling with this problem. We simply may not have much time to quibble. As the self-described "gadfly" in the anthology states, "there is nothing like a crisis looming on the horizon to put disciplinary boundaries and disputes over methodology into proper perspective."