Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Practicing plenitude / Juliet B. Schor and Craig J. Thompson -- Artisanal production, communal provisioning, and anticapitalist politics in the Aude, France / Teresa Gowan and Rachel Slocum -- The social forms of local self-reliance : complexities of community in the Alaskan transition movement / Karen Hébert -- New cultures of connection in a Boston time bank / Emilie A. Dubois, Juliet B. Schor, and Lindsey B. Carfagna -- How community-supported agriculture facilitates reembedding and reterritorializing practices of sustainable consumption / Craig J. Thompson and Melea Press -- Raw milk underground : status and self-sufficiency in agro-food networks in the United States and Lithuania / Diana Mincyte -- Sustainable pleasure and pleasurable sustainability at Chicago's experimental station / Robert Wengronowitz -- Why the sustainable economy movement hasn't scaled : toward a strategy that empowers Main Street / Douglas B. Holt -- Cooperative networks, participatory markets, and rhizomatic resistance : situating plenitude within contemporary political economy debates / Craig J. Thompson and Juliet B. Schor.

Text in English.