Contents

Chapter 1: A Green Majority

5

Chapter 2: Downshifting and Work-Time Choice

8

Losing the Fight over Work Time

9

Choice of Work Hours

12

Compulsory Consumption

17

Chapter 3: Livable Cities and Neighborhood Choice

18

Cities in the Consumer Society

18

Traditional Neighborhood Design

21

Transforming American Cities

23

Cities and Simpler Living

30

Chapter 4: Family Time and Child-Care Choice

31

Instead of Day Care

32

More Money or More Time for Children

35

Activities or Commodities

38

Chapter 5: Optimism About the Future

39

Taxes and Equality

40

A Carbon Tax Shift

44

Two Possible Futures

46

Chapter 6: From Old Left to Green

53

The Decline of the Left

53

A Convenient Truth

56

Notes

60