Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation, by Samuel Alexander

• Publisher – Simplicity Institute
• Pages – 189
• Format – e-book
• Published in 2013
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9875884-3-2

Written in 2013, but set in the late 2020’s, this book is a look at what life could look like if we stopped using fossil fuels. What would our houses look like? How would we grow food, and get about? What do we do for work? Is there poverty? How do we make decisions? What is important to us? Its a well written exploration of what life could look like if we voluntarily choose a path of simplicity rather than materiality and avoid the worst outcomes of a warming planet. I highly recommend this book, it has informed some of my work into potential industries, organisations and lifestyles of the future.

The e-book is available here for Australian $4.99

About the Author, Samuel Alexander:

“Over the last ten years Dr Samuel Alexander has been a lecturer and researcher at the University of Melbourne, Australia, teaching a course called ‘Consumerism and the Growth Economy: Critical Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ as part of the Master of Environment. He has also been a Research Fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and is currently co-Director of the Simplicity Institute. In 2024 he begins his role as Academic Director with the School for International Training, coordinating and lecturing into a university course called Sustainability and Environmental Action. 

Alexander’s interdisciplinary research focuses on degrowth, permaculture, voluntary simplicity, ‘grassroots’ theories of transition, and the relationship between culture and political economy. His current research is exploring the aesthetics of degrowth and energy descent futures.”

About Erin Remblance, your host during #DegrowthLitMonth:

Erin Remblance established her early career in blue-chip fast-moving consumer goods companies in Sydney & London, but always sensed there was more important work to be done. Having children gave her the space to explore the environmental and cultural crises on the planet that need to be urgently addressed. She shifted her focus to dedicate her life towards educating people on climate change, degrowth, planetary boundaries, modern monetary theory and more. Erin is a writer, researcher, co-creator of (re)Biz, wife, and mother of three children. She lives north of Sydney, Australia with her family, on the occupied ancestral country of the Gayemagal people.

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