The Heartcore Alternative: Reinterpreting Our Relationships to Each Other and Earth in a Global Age

The Heartcore Alternative combines environmental science and psychology to unravel the intricate ways human perception and values, and our level of psychological maturity, create healthy - or destructive - relationshps to self, each other, and Earth. Using easy-to-follow examples of General Systems Theory and Semiotics, The Heartcore Alternative provides ways to measure the integrity of an individual action or a social policy. It entices the reader to think in original ways, to experience how his or her lifestyle contributes to sustaining or destroying life on Earth as it has existed for millennia. It suggests how to change destructive patterns and instead create "Heartcore Alternatives."