Charles Eisenstein (born 1967) is an American writer and teacher, and one of the most inspiring visionaries of the transition to a sustainable civilization; he describes himself as a non-growth activist. He graduated from Yale University in 1989 (mathematics and philosophy) and then went to Taiwan to study Chinese; he worked there as a translator for ten years and studied Eastern spiritual traditions for twenty years. He currently lives with his family in the town of Camphill near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania…