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In a brilliant work of imaginative non-fiction, prize-winning author J.B. MacKinnon asks what would happen — to our economy, our ecology, our products, ourselves — if we stopped consuming so much? Is that alternative world one we might actually want to live in?
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J.B. MACKINNON is the author or co-author of five books of non-fiction. An award-winning journalist, his work has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic and the Atlantic, as well as the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies. He is an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches feature writing.
MacKinnon’s latest book is The Day the World Stops Shopping, a thought-experiment that imagines what would happen — to our economies, our products, our planet, our selves — if we committed to consuming far fewer of the Earth’s resources. Previous works are The Once and Future World, a bestseller about rewilding the natural world; The 100-Mile Diet (with Alisa Smith), widely recognized as a catalyst of the local foods movement; I Live Here (with Mia Kirshner and artists Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge), a "paper documentary" about displaced people; and Dead Man in Paradise, the story of a priest assassinated in the Dominican Republic, which won Canada’s highest prize for literary non-fiction.
For close to 30 years, Random House Canada has been publishing the finest books by Canadian and international writers, be they new voices or beloved greats. Non-fiction or fiction, these books encompass a dazzling range of prize winners and bestsellers that have delighted, surprised and inspired Canadians, changing the way we think about the most important issues of our time. The Random House Canada list has been recognized with the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize, the National Business Book Award, the Writers’ Trust Rogers Fiction Award among many, many others. Controversial stories and big ideas, cold cases and hot topics, Random House Canada publishes the books that Canadians want to read. ![[Tyee]](/design-article.thetyee.ca/ui/img/yellowblob.png){kind=small}
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