Inspection copies available: 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 excerpt at Amazon.com, though give the page time to load to read the Postscript, which Amazon weirdly pastes at the end of the file, after the bibliographic material. 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.
With all best wishes,
Michael
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 |
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