MAIN PUBLICATIONS BY TED (F. E. ) TRAINER.

(NB. The items in the website offer the best accounts; please use them rather than the following published sources for introductions and detailed discussions...although some ofthe following papers are listed at the website.)

 

THE CONSERVER SOCIETY: ALTERNATIVES FOR SUSTAINABILITY, London, Zed Books, 1995. 246 pp.

Presents a summary of theory and practice for a sustainable society, deriving from the conclusion that radical change is needed from industrial, affluent consumer society to a very different society based on simpler lifestyles, cooperation, local economic self-sufficiency and a zero-growth economy. Part 1 explains this context. Part 2 deals with the changes needed regarding food, housing, water, living more simply, building highly self-sufficient settlements, t he economy, energy, values, Third World development, education, inequality, government. Part 3 gives examples of alternative living and settlements. Part 4 discusses the transition that is underway, and how to contribute to it.

Distributed by Peribo, 58 Baumont Rd., Mt. Kuring-Gai, (02)94570011. $45. Can be purchased from TT for $27, or borrowed.)

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TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY, Sydney, Envirobooks, 1995. 183 pp.

Elaborates on the economics chapter in The Conserver Society but also deals with general issues to do with sustainability and the required society. Fundamental criticism of the market system, growth and trickle down theory, Third World development, etc. Discussion of the limits to growth problem, the social impact of the economy, profit, globalisation and the present crisis, the faults in economic theory, the alternative economy for a sustainable society.

Distributed by Envirobooks, 88 Cumberland Way, The Rocks, Sydney, 2000. $24. (Can be purchased from be me for $12, or borrowed.)

SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT; WHAT IT WILL TAKE, Sydney, University of N.S.W. Press, 1998. 64 p.

Argues that most green thought and action is mistaken because it does not recognise that we cannot save the environment unless we abandon consumer society and an economy driven by market forces, profit and growth. The environment problem is due to the fact that there is far too much producing and consuming going on. An outline of the main environmental problems is given. The limits to growth perspective on our global situation is sketched. Affluent lifestyles and the growth economy are identified as the main sources of the problem. The form a sustainable society must take is discussed. Implications for action are considered.

Distributed by University of N.S.W. Press, $9.95.

THE NATURE OF MORALITY, (1991), Aldershot, UK, Avebury. (In this website at The first three chapters from The Nature of Morality,)

EARLIER BOOKS;

ABANDON AFFLUENCE! London, Zed Books, 1985. Detailed presentation of limits to growth argument as it stood then, plus a chapter on the alternative society.

DEVELOPED TO DEATH. London, Greenprint, 1989. Critical analysis of Third World development, from a limits to growth perspective.

THE NATURE OF MORALITY; THE SUBJECTIVIST PERSPECTIVE, Aldershot, Avebury, 1991. (On ethical theory;Not concerned with limits to growth or The Simpler Way.)

DIMENSIONS OF MORALITY, Sydney, University of N.S.W. Press, 1982. (Deals with Psychology of moral thought; Not concerned with limits to growth or the Simpler Way.)

SOME RECENT ARTICLES:

Trainer; F. E. (T.), (1995c), "Can renewable energy save industrial society?", Energy Policy, 23, 12, 1009-1026.
Trainer, F. E. (T.), (1997), "Why development is impossible", Scandanavian Journal of Development and Area Studies, Sept-Dec.
Trainer, F. E. (T.), (1998b), "Towards a checklist for ecovillage development", Local Environment, 3, 1, 79-84.
Trainer, F. E. (T.), (1999), "The limits to growth case now", The Environmentalist, 19, 19, 4, Dec. 325 -336.
Trainer, F. E. (T.) , Development; Conventional vs Critical Perspectives, Humanomics, 17, 1/2, 29-39.
Trainer, F. E. (T.) (2001),"What does development mean; A rejection of the unidimensional conception ", The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 20, 5/6, 2000, pp. 95-114.
Trainer, F. E. (T.) ,Reply to Takis Fotopoulos. Democracy and Nature. ? 2002
Trainer, F. E. (T.), (2001), "The dematerialisation myth", Technology in Society, 23, 505-514.
Trainer, F. E. (T.) ,(2001), Reply to R. Weiner, Technology in Society, 23, 523-524.
Trainer, F. E. (T.), "Development, Charity and Poverty; The Appropriate Development Perspective", International Journal of Social Economics, 29, 1/2, 2002, 54-71.
Trainer, F. E. (T)., (2002), " Can solar sources meet Australia's electricity and liquid fuel demand?", The International Journal of Global Energy Issues.
Trainer, F. E. (T), "Natural capitalism cannot overcome resource limits", Environment, Development, Sustainability.
Trainer, F. E. (T.), "If you want affluence prepare for war", Democracy and Nature, 8, 2, July.