Based on qualitative interviews with sustainability-oriented parents of young children, this book describes what happens when people make interventions into mundane and easy-to-overlook aspects of everyday life to bring the way they get things done into alignment with their environmental values. Because the ability to make changes is constrained by their culture and capitalist society, there are negative consequences and trade-offs involved in these household-level sustainability practices.
The households described in this book shed light on the full extent of the trade-offs involved in promoting sustainability at the household level as a solution to environmental problems.
Table of Content
1. Introduction: “This Can’t Be All Up to Me”
2. Eco-Conscious Household Production and Capitalist Society
3. Priorities in Eco-Conscious Households
4. Resources and Constraints in Eco-Conscious Households
5. Managing Household Waste
6. Cleanliness and Comfort
7. Doing Their Own Research
8. Conflict
9. “How Do We Live with Ourselves?”
10. Conclusion: “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us”
About the author
Kirstin Munro is Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research in New York.
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