Anitra Nelson – New York (USA)

New York event at the Everything Goes Book-Cafe.

Anitra in conversation with a member of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage on ways that living together can make us environmentally sustainable by reducing our ecological footprint. This Thursday 7.30pm event is hosted by the Everything Goes Book-Cafe at 208 Bay St not far from the ferry stop on Staten Island. Anitra’s book Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet on ‘eco-collaborative housing’, will be available to buy at a discount, signed if you wish.

Anitra Nelson is an activist-scholar whose research interests focus on housing and community-based sustainability, environmental justice and non-monetary futures. She is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia). She was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2016–2017) and was a Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research (2012). She is a co-editor of Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (2011) and Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities (forthcoming).