james kunstler

Keynote:
"Beyond the Long Emergency: Lessons in Sustainable Development"

MP3 Audio Recording of Keynote

MP3 Audio Recording of Q&A

Bio: James Kunstler is one of the best-known of our social critics who has focused on the insanity and destructiveness of North American land use, the “suburban fiasco,” and the collapse of community resulting from our building practices and car dependency.

Author of Home From Nowhere, The Geography of Nowhere, The City In Mind, and the current and controversial The Long Emergency, Kunstler has thoroughly examined the pathologies of recent and current land use and development practice and policy. He has been a cautious champion of New Urbanism and a thoughtful pessimist about our society’s capacity and practical ability to change its patterns of energy use and consumption.

His presentation at Gaining Ground touched on the vast historical landscape of mistakes and mis-steps, and open up the urgent need for the sustainability and restoration ‘movement’ to influence current land use and community-making practice.