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While the previous chapter may have left the reader feeling rather depressed, this chapter moves on to look not at the problems, but at some of the many creative cultural solutions that have emerged to promote the possibility of a sustainable future based on a sustainable culture. This chapter explores a range of such solutions including transforming consumption, the role of the arts, design and architecture, education and religion, and in particular the re-discovery in most major religious traditions of ecological teachings, perhaps most conspicuously reflected in the Pope’s recent Encyclical on the environment, and which are having a transformative effect on the thinking of both clergy and lay people across a whole range of religions, still, despite in some societies the inroads of secularism, a vitally important dimension of culture.

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Clammer, J. (2016). Cultural Resources for Sustainability. In: Cultures of Transition and Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52033-3_3

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