Discount/Exam Copies: The Living-Green Myth

[Michael Maniates]



Dear Colleagues and Friends,

 

If you teach or coordinate courses in environmental politics, environmental studies, sustainability studies, or linked fields, my new book The Living-Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism may be suitable for your classroom needs. 

 

For a quick taste, see the sample at Amazon.com.  For the full book, gratis inspection copies are available via Polity Books, or by emailing me directly.  Copies for personal use are available at a discounted price, per the attached PDF.

 

Many of you who use my 2001 essay “Individualization: Plant a Tree, Ride a Bike, Save the World” know that I enjoy responding to your students’ comments and questions about my work, either in real-time Zoom sessions or via video responses to submitted queries.  I’m happy to do the same with this new book, which I wrote with my students in mind.

I posted a similar message in early December but learned only recently that the discount code was faulty.  I'm reposting now to make amends with a fully functional 35% discount code. 

 

Warmly,

Michael

Michael F MANIATES 

Senior Fellow, The Story of Stuff

 

Just released: The Living-Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism, Polity Press, 2025

Free open-access PDF:  Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life Within Sustainable Limits, Routledge, 2021

 

Yale-NUS College, Singapore | Professor of Social Sciences, Environmental Studies (2013 – 2025) | 

Yale-NUS Inaugural Head of Environmental Studies (2013 – 2022, 2024) | Distinguished Teaching Award - 2021 | 

Convener, gep-ed (Environmental Studies Section, International Studies Association) | 

 

Web: http://michaelmaniates.com | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelmaniates/

Senior Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 2011 – 2013 |

Professor of Environmental Science and Political Science, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 1993 – 2013 |

BS (University of California), MA, PhD (Energy and Resources, University of California) |

 

Most people are eagerly groping for some medium, some way in

which they can bridge the gap between their morals and their practices.
--Saul Alinsky

[Michael Maniates]

Dear Colleagues,

A few weeks ago I shared a flyer and discount code (35% off) for my recent book The Living-Green Myth.  My message was meant to remedy a failed discount code I posted back in December 2025.

As many of you have gently observed, the new discount code also failed to work.  Egads.  Awkward, to say the least...

Fixing this was challenging, but all is now well.  I attach a revised flyer with a new discount code (MMG35), verified to work worldwide. AU and NZ colleagues should email me for a special link.

Alternatively, if you teach a course for which the book might be appropriate, I can have an examination copy sent to you.  I'll need your mailing address and a phone number, along with the course name and number you have in mind.  Polity/Wiley hopes that instructors who receive an examination copy will adopt the book for a course, but there is no obligation; either way, the book is free for you to keep.

Warmly,

Michael

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