The Holigent Solution: How to Win the Transition Race to Economic Security, Quality of Life, Peace and Sustainability or How I Hope My Children and ... Wonderful but Troubled and Endangered Planet

by A. Nicholas Frank, Elisa Frank (With)

In this poignant, thoughtful, and innovative analysis and plan of action, A. Nicholas Frank and Elisa Frank, a father and daughter team of social thinker/innovators, propose a socioeconomic transformation. With the pillars of society crumbling (a failing economy and dysfunctional democracy), their focus is not criticism but reconstruction. The Holigent Solution serves as a blueprint to rethink and rearrange the way we live, work, commute, consume, maintain, and govern ourselves – a community at a time. Modeling a socioeconomic system after Nature’s frugal self-organizing building code, as closely as humanly possible, is likely our only hope of creating a sustainable human world. To this end, the authors present a rational physical, social, and economic rearrangement through which economic justice, environmental sustainability, and quality of life can be secured.

334 pages, Paperback

First published November 16, 2011

About the author

Growing up in mid-20th-century Hungary, I experienced both extremes of Western bipolar political choices: fascism on the right and communism on the left. I propose a middle way. What I call the Holigent concept proposes cellular reengineering of society following Nature's expertise in constructing complex yet enduring systems.