Changemakers - by Fay Weller & Mary Wilson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p> <i>Changemakers</i> is the guidebook for people aiming to create a just and ecological society. We hold the power to make personal changes that can drive local changes and tip into large-scale social transformation. Explores transformative learning and presents stories of people who transformed their lives, communities, and wider society.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b> The guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society <em>now</em> rather than wait for a pie-in-the-sky future.</b> </p><p> With every news report, the world seems to be careening off the rails. It's all too easy to slip into despair waiting for co-opted, self-serving governments to act. </p> <p> Hope and action is the antidote. We each hold the power to make personal changes that can drive local changes and cascade into large-scale social transformation. This is the guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society <em>now</em>.</p> <p> The first section explores the idea of transformative change - what it is, what difference it makes, and how it is connected to learning. </p> <p> From creating a citizen-powered community bus service, to winning the right to local food, to women hand-sculpting their own houses, the second section explores powerful stories of everyday people who have challenged traditional understandings and transformed their lives, their communities, and wider society. </p><p> In the final section, the authors provide a workbook to guide people, wherever they are, through the process of catalyzing change.</p> <p> We all have the power to create a more just and ecological society. We all have the power to be changemakers. </p> <p> <strong>Fay Weller</strong> is a community organizer, homesteader, researcher, and artist with a PhD. focused on social transformation. She and her partner live on Gabriola Island, BC, with two sheep and numerous chickens. </p><p> <strong>Mary Wilson </strong>is a facilitator, researcher, instructional designer, and activist with a Ph.D. in education. She and her partner live on Gabriola Island, BC where they are restoring a home, developing a permaculture food forest, and building an engineless catamaran. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>The guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now rather than wait for a pie-in-the-sky future. <p><i>Traces the path from here to there: from the individual to the wider world and from the noxiousness of the present to the possibilities of the future. </i><br>-- Warren Magnusson, author, <i>Local Self-Government and the Right to the City</i>, <i>Politics of Urbanism</i>, and <i>The Search for Political Space </i></p><p><i>A stimulating book about how all of us can contribute to compassionate and positive change</i>. -- Dr. Peter Robinson, former CEO of the David Suzuki Foundation </p><p><i>Weller and Wilson show that we can change ourselves...and the world beyond</i>. -- Dmitry Orlov, author, <i>Shrinking the Technosphere </i></p><p>WITH EVERY news report the world seems to be careening off the rails. It's all too easy to slip into despair waiting for co-opted, self-serving governments to act. The antidote to fear and despair is hope and action. We each hold the power to make personal changes that can drive local changes and cascade into large-scale social transformation. </p><p>This is the guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now. </p><p>The first section explores the idea of transformative change - what it is, what difference it makes, and how it is connected to learning. </p><p>The second section explores powerful new stories of everyday people who have challenged traditional understandings of food, shelter, energy, transportation, waste, and economics and transformed aspects of their lives, their communities, and wider society. </p><p>In the final section, the authors provide a workbook to guide people, wherever they are, through the process of catalyzing change. We all have the power to create a more just and ecological society. We all have the power to be changemakers.</p><p> <i>In turbulent times, we need threads of hope from which to weave our convictions into actions. If you want a guide to such action, one that is hopeful, inspiring, and practical, look no further. You have found it. </i><br>-- Dan Pratt, Professor Emeritus & Senior Scholar, University of British Columbia </p><p>FAY WELLER is a community organizer, homesteader, researcher, and artist with a PhD focused on social transformation. She and her partner live on Gabriola Island, BC with two sheep and numerous chickens. </p><p>MARY WILSON is a facilitator, researcher, instructional designer, and activist with a PhD in education. She and her partner live on Gabriola Island, BC, where they are restoring a home, developing a permaculture food forest, and building an engineless catamaran. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p> <strong>Fay Weller</strong> is a community organizer, homesteader, researcher, and artist. She has focused on broad systemic change in her work and activism, and holds a PhD focused on social transformation. Fay loves the creative spark when working on new community ideas that increase ecological and just choices for citizens. She is engaged in numerous collaborative initiatives from a local bus service to sustainability planning, to affordable, low-impact heating. She nurtures, grows, and sells apples, eggs, and vegetables, and creates clothing from handmade fabrics. Fay has two adult children and a granddaughter. She and her partner Bob live on their Gabriola Island, BC farm with Yu and Mi, their two sheep, and numerous chickens. </p> <p><strong>Mary Wilson</strong> has a longstanding interest in learning and communication for social change. She has worked for two decades as a facilitator, instructor, researcher, and instructional designer, and holds a Ph.D. in education. As a student of Buddhism, Mary is fascinated by the Boddhisatvas - metaphorical enlightened beings who embody wisdom, compassion, and practice. She sees the combination of wisdom, compassion, and practice as central to learning, and central to our collective efforts to live in harmony on our finite planet. An active participant in her Gabriola Island, BC community, Mary lives with her partner, her 92-year-old mother, and several critters. She and her partner are simultaneously caring for her mom, restoring a ramshackle island home, developing a permaculture food forest, and building an engineless catamaran. </p>
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