Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation - Paperback

by Eli Feghali (Editor), Rachel Plattus (Editor), Nathan Schneider (Editor)

Our problems are global and interconnected, and our solutions must be too. With over seventy contributors, Beautiful Solution spotlights the collective wisdom that reminds us that another world is not only possible, it's already under construction.

Everything we need to transform our communities already exists. From food sovereignty to debt abolition, from folk schools to energy democracy -- and from Argentina to Zimbabwe. If you long for a more beautiful, more just, and more livable world -- and want to know how to get there -- this book is for you.

Author Biography

Eli Feghali is director of Communications and Online Organizing for the New Economy Coalition. He has spent the majority of his professional life working as a communications specialist and community organizer. Eli is also Co-Chair of the Board of YES! Magazine. He lives in Cambridge, MA.

Rachel Plattus was director of programs at the New Economy Coalition from 2012-2015. She coordinated NEC's Youth and Student organizing and community reinvestment efforts, and worked to build community, organizational and funder engagement in the New Economy. Rachel lives in Cambridge, MA.

Nathan Schneider is a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has written for Harper's, The Nation, The New York Times, The Catholic Worker, Vice, YES! and other publications. His most recent book is Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy.

Elandria Williams was the Executive Director at PeoplesHub and a staff member of the Highlander Research and Education Center, where she was also on the Organizational Leadership Team. Elandria coordinated the Southern Grassroots Economies Project and supported community leaders and organizers in the South and Appalachia.