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My Main Books
They Knew: The US Federal Government’s Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021).
The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed Economy (New York: Routledge, 2021) (ed., with Kathleen Courrier).
Angels by the River: A Memoir (Chelsea Green Publishing: White River Junction, VT, 2014; republished Home House Press, Charleston, SC, 2022).
America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012; paperback, 2013).
The Coming Transformation: Values To Sustain Human and Natural Communities (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2009) (ed., with Stephen Kellert).
The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008; paperback, 2009). Translated: Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Korean.
Global Environmental Governance (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2006) (with Peter Haas).
Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004). Translated: German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Turkish. Paperback with new “Afterword” (2005).
Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003)
(ed).
My Recent Articles
"The Space Beyond Both Despair and Hopium," address at UMass/Amherst, November 2023
https://peri.umass.edu/images/GusSpethRemarks.pdf
"You Say You Want a Revolution," Orion, November 2023
https://orionmagazine.org/article/you-say-you-want-a-revolution
"Clearing Skies: Opening a New Path on Climate and the Future," Yale Environment 360, November 2023
https://e360.yale.edu/features/systemic-adaptation
"5 Steps to Climate Sanity: Beyond Both Despair and Hopium," Resilience, October 2023
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-10-25/five-steps-to-climate-sanity-beyond-both-despair-and-hopium
"Is There a Way Forward?", Resilience, June 2, 2023
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-06-02/is-there-a-way-forward
"Through a Glass, Darkly," Resilience, March 10, 2023
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-03-10/through-a-glass-darkly
"A Progressive's Bookshelf: Little Boats and Big Currents," Orion, December 2022
https://orionmagazine.org/article/6-progressive-books-climate-politics/
“Can Transformational Change Come to America?” Common Dreams, August 16, 2022.
commondreams.org/views/2022/08/16/can-transformative-change-come-america
“The Counsel of Despair,” Orion, August 2022.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/cousel-despair-climate-catastrophe
“This Must Be the Year of Climate Action,” The Hill, January 19, 2022
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/590502-this-must-be-the-year-of-climate-action-weve-wasted-so-many.
“The New Environmentalism Must Demand Systemic Change,” Truthout, February 7, 2021
https://truthout.org/articles/the-new-environmentalism-must-demand-systemic-change/
“Ten Books for Every Transformational Change Bookshelf,” Orion, December 10, 2021
orionmagazine.org/2021/12/ten-books-for-every-transformational-change-bookshelf.
“Through the Kitchen Window: A Vision of a New America,” several publications.
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/through-kitchen-window-vision-new-america
“A People’s State of the Nation,” Common Dreams, March 29, 2019
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/03/29/peoples-state-nation
“Taking Climate Action to the Next Level,” The Next System Project, , August 29, 2018 (with others)
https://thenextsystem.org/climateaction
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-09-07/introduction-the-green-transition-and-the-next-system
“Stress Test: Democracy Confronts Climate Change,” Next System Project, 2018
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/stress-test-democracy-confronts-climate-change
“The Joyful Economy: Rising Up from the Devastation of People and Nature,” in Melissa K. Scanlan, ed., Law and Policy for a New Economy (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2017), 31.
https://thenextsystem.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/GusSpeth-1.pdf
“Powered by Radical Roots: A Natural Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World, If We Claim It,” The Nation, May 9/16, 2016, 22 (with J. Phillip Thompson III)
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/a-radical-alliance-of-black-and-green-could-save-the-world/
See also “A Radical Alliance of Black and Green,” The Environmental Forum, May-June 2018, 46 (with J. Phillip Thompson III). “Environmental Law: Time To Reboot,” David Sive Memorial Lecture, Columbia University, October, 2016.
http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/files/2016/05/Speth-2016-10-Sive-Lecture.pdf
“Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions,” Common Dreams, June 5, 2015
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/05/systemic-problems-require-systemic-solutions-time-talk-about-next-system.
“Am I a ‘Radical?” The Nation, January 27, 2015
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-i-became-radical/
Getting to the Next System: Guideposts on the Way to a New Political Economy, The Next System Project
https://thenextsystem.org/gettowhatsnext
“An Environmentalist’s Story,” The Environmental Forum, September/October 2014, p. 40.
https://www.vermontlaw.edu/sites/default/files/Assets/elc/speth%20final%20eli%20article.pdf
“Searching for Radicalism in a Corporate Age,” Great Transition Initiative, Tellus Institute, 2014
www.greattransition.org/publication/searching-for-radicalism-in-a-corporate-age
“Growth Fetish: Five Reasons Why Prioritizing Growth Is Bad Policy”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-gustave-speth/growth-fetish-five-reason_b_4018166.html
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2013/10/08/growth-fetish-five-reasons-why-prioritizing-growth-bad-policy
Commencement Address, University of Massachusetts/ Boston, May, 2013
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-09-13/commencement-address-university-of-massachusetts-at-boston-may-2013
Wen Stephenson, “Gus Speth: ‘Ultimate insider’ goes radical,” Interview, September 17, 2012
www.grist.org/climate-energy/gus-speth-ultimate-insider-goes-radical
“For Rio+20: A Charter for a New Economy,” Solutions, May/June 2012, p. 24
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/06/17/rio20-charter-new-economy
“America the Possible—A Manifesto; Part I—From Decline to Rebirth,” Orion, March/April, 2012
https://orionmagazine.org/article/america-the-possible/
“America the Possible—A Manifesto; Part II—A New Politics for a New Dream,” Orion, May/June, 2012
https://orionmagazine.org/article/america-the-possible-a-manifesto-part-ii/
“Letter to Liberals: Liberalism, Environmentalism, and Economic Growth,” 2010 Schumacher Lecture, published at Vermont Law Review, vol. 35, No. 3, Spring, 2011, p. 547; Ethics, Policy and Environment, vol. 14, No. 1 (March 2011), p. 43; and Commondreams.org, September 12, 2011.
https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/letter-to-liberals-liberalism-environmentalism-and-economic-growth/
“Beyond the Growth Paradigm: Creating a Unified Progressive Politics,” Great Transition Initiative Perspectives, Tellus Institute, March, 2011
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2011/09/12/beyond-growth-creating-unified-progressive-politics
“What Is the American Dream? Dueling Dualities in the American Tradition,”
www.grist.org/politics/2011-06-24-what-is-the-american-dream-dueling-dualities-in-the-american-tra
And see, “Pursuing Happiness the American Way,” Valley News, July 3, 2011, p. F3.
“Off the Pedestal: Creating a New Vision of Economic Growth,” Yale Environment 360
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/off_the_pedestal_creating_a_new_vision_of_economic_growth/2409
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2011/05/31/pedestal-creating-new-vision-economic-growth
“A New American Environmentalism and the New Economy,” 10th Annual John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture, National Council for Science and the Environment, January 21, 2010
https://www.gcseglobal.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/Chafee%20Report%202010-Speth.pdf
"Global Warming and Modern Capitalism," The Nation, September 18, 2008.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/global-warming-and-modern-capitalism