Alan AtKisson

recently introduced the new edition of his classic book

Believing Cassandra

How to be an optimist in a pessimist’s world

with a public lecture at the London School of Economics (LSE)

The lecture (about 60 mins, plus 30 mins of question-and-answer dialogue with the audience) is now available in audio (podcast) and video.

Click here to listen to view this lecture on the web.

Click here to access the podcast.

Click here for a 5-minute video interview by Reuters, on YouTube.

When first published a decade ago, BELIEVING CASSANDRA quickly became a very popular book for getting — and for giving other people — an overview of the challenges we face as a global civilization … and how to get involved in the process of solving them.

Companies, government agencies, and university programs bought BELIEVING CASSANDRA by the carton as a way to introduce people to the concepts of “sustainability” and “change agentry.” People gave copies as gifts to friends, family members, and work colleagues in Europe, the US, Australia, Japan, and Southeast Asia.

BELIEVING CASSANDRA was also called “bold and controversial” by some reviewers … because it dared to look the seriousness of our global environmental problems straight on, and make the case for optimism.

On Tuesday, 23 November, Alan AtKisson will introduce a beautiful new edition of BELIEVING CASSANDRA from Earthscan, with a free public lecture at LSE. The book has been fully updated with the latest scientific data and world events. It also includes new personal stories and follow-ups to the case studies (“proof of the possible,” says AtKisson) that made the first edition “exceptionally readable” and “very inspiring” (said reviewers).

At the same event, Earthscan and AtKisson are launching the paperback edition of THE SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION, AtKisson’s “inspiring and informative,” “essential guide” to doing sustainability in practice. Updated with a new “user’s guide” preface written specially for this edition, THE SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION — which introduces the ISIS Method and other powerful tools for making change — has also become a standard text used and referred to in training programs around the world.

“A tonic for hope”

- Darcy Hitchcock, co-founder of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals