The Earth is Not for Sale

"[T]his book is not only the combination of technical expertise with unabashed politics. It is the culmination of decades of scientific research into energy and farming systems as well as decades of direct involvement in electoral politics ... The authors give a thorough technical treatment on the crucial environmental issues of our times ... laying out and critiquing the social order that conventional science prefers to leave unnamed and unquestioned. ... the evidence presented in this book, both environmental and social, should compel even the most recalcitrant to re-assess how things stand and at the very least to counter with a credible, practicable alternative that goes beyond, as the authors call it, business as usual."

"A thought provoking and documented examination of solutions to social and economic inequality, ecological tipping points, and the threat of climate catastrophe, focusing on renewable energy systems, agroecology, and social organization. The authors reject a business as usual approach, and argue that the revolution has already begun."

Peter D Schwartzman has taught Environmental Studies at Knox College (in west-central Illinois, USA) since 1998. He holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences (University of Virginia, USA); an MSc in Science and Technology Studies (Virginia Tech, USA); and a BSc in Physics with a minor in Philosophy (Harvey Mudd College, USA). He has served as Alderman in Galesburg, IL since 2011, having been elected twice. He has co-founded two locally-focused non-profits (Knox Prairie Community Kitchen, and Growing Together, Inc.) and has served as a board member on many others (including, Galesburg Athletic Youth Club, Galesburg Farmers' Market Association, Illinois Stewardship Alliance, and Western Illinois Nature Group). He oversees two websites: solarutopia.org and onehuman.org (personal blog). He has two children and loves to play Scrabble, basketball and tennis.

David W Schwartzman is Professor Emeritus at Howard University (Washington D.C., USA) and is a biogeochemist and environmental scientist. He holds a PhD in Geochemistry from Brown University, USA. He contributes to his older son Peter Schwartzman's website solarUtopia.org. His publications include: Life, Temperature and the Earth (2002), and several recent papers in Capitalism Nature Socialism (CNS). David serves on the CNS Advisory Board, and is also on the Advisory Board of Science & Society, and the Institute for Policy Research & Development. He is an active member of the DC Statehood Green Party/Green Party of the United States as well as several other community organizations, especially since his retirement from Howard University at the end of June, 2012.