Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation

Written by more than 80 contributing authors, Beautiful Solutions brings together some of the world's most innovative community leaders to share examples of a new economy under construction. Many of those examples are already happening in your community. Look around. Can you find a credit union? A food cooperative? A community garden? What about a mutual aid project? The chances are that you or someone in your family is already involved in a beautiful solution! While these examples may seem small at first sight, they don't have to be. When they are connected to each other or given the resources they need to grow, the solutions that already exist in our communities can be the starting point for collective transformation.

This time of great turmoil is also a time of great opportunity. As the cracks in the system get bigger, more and more people become open to ideas that have the power to change everything.

Beautiful Solutions is a collaborative project that highlights many interlocking pieces of a complex puzzle. It helps us see where pieces are missing and allows us to get closer to putting the whole thing together. Featuring concrete examples from every area of our economy-from food and finance to energy and education-Beautiful Solutions demonstrates that another world is under construction.

This book is not a work of theory or polemic so much as it is a starting point for practical politics. What sets it apart is the sheer breadth of examples and voices we have brought together, all in an accessible, teachable format aimed at emerging activists. Rather than focusing on the debates that so often divide people today, we focus on radical, practical solutions that people can bring to their communities as part of a global effort to transform economic and political life at every level.
is also part of the broader family of Beautiful Trouble books, online toolkit, trainings and resources-thereby connecting the practice of resistance of the earlier books to visions of the world we are working toward.