Recommended Reading
Sustainable Living
The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book by Carla Emery
When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance and Planetary Survival by Matthew Stein
Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook by James Talmage Stevens
Storey's Basic Country Skills : A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance by John Storey
Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills by Readers Digest
The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living: Advice and Information on Just About Everything You Need to Know to Live on Planet Earth by Walter Szykitka
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth by William E. Rees & Mathis Wackernagel
The Subtle Way Manual by Kevin & Donna Philippe-Johnson
Sustainable Culture
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by David Korten
The Chalice & the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Rianne Eisler
The Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry
The Great Work: Our Way into the Future by Thomas Berry
Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s Future by Duane Elgin
Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn
Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and the Seed of the Future by William Kotke
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal and Global Transformation by Thom Hartmann
Off the Map: An Expedition Deep into Empire and the Global Economy by Chellis Glendinning
When Technology Wounds: The Human Consequences of Progress by Chellis Glendinning
My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization by Chellis Glendinning
Peak Oil
The Oil Age is Over by Matt Savinar
Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World by Richard Heinberg
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century by James Howard Kunstler
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream DVD ~ Jim Kunstler
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
The Coming Oil Crisis by C. J. Campbell
High Noon For Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis by Julian Darley
The End of Oil: One the Edge of a Perilous New World by Paul Roberts
The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse by Richard Heinberg
Civil Liberty, Peak Oil, and the End of Empire by Alexis Zeigler
Climate Change
(Link to Extensive List)
Climate Crisis Coalition
United Nations Climate Change Conference
High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis by Mark Lynas
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas
Global Population
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change by William Catton
Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited: The Unraveling of the American Dream by William Ophuls
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
by Donella H. Meadows
On the Edge of Scarcity: Environment, Resources, Population, Sustainability, and Conflict by Michael N. Dobkowski (Editor)
Permaculture & Gardening
PERMACULTURE: A Designers' Manual by B. C. Mollison, et al
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways by David Holmgren
Earth User's Guide to Permaculture by Rosemary Morrow
Chicken Tractor: Permaculture Guide by Andy Lee, Pat Foreman
The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure by Joseph C. Jenkins
Create an Oasis With Greywater: Your Complete Guide to Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systems by Art Ludwig
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long - Eliot Coleman
Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew
Deep Ecology
Deep Ecology for the 21st Century by George Sessions
Sacred Land, Sacred Sex: Rapture of the Deep: Concerning Deep Ecology and Celebrating Life by Dolores Lachapelle
Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings by John Seed
Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology by Bill Devall
A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen
The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen
Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests by Derrick Jensen
Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution by Derrick Jensen
Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization by Derrick Jensen
Endgame: Volume 2: Resistance by Derrick Jensen
The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting With the Body of the Earth by Joan Halifax
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World David Abram
Green Architecture
Green Remodeling: Changing the World One Room at a Time by David R. Johnston, Kim Master
Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods by Clarke Snell, Tim Callahan
Building with the Breath of Life by Tom Bender
The Company We Keep by John Abrams
Green Economics
For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future by Herman E. Daly
Globalize This! The Battle Against the World Trade Organization and Corporate Rule by Kevin Danaher
Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama: Globalization and the Downsizing of the American Dream by Kevin Danaher
A New Covenant With Nature: Notes on the End of Civilization and the Renewal of Culture by Richard Heinberg
Learning to Count What Really Counts: The Economics of Wholeness by Tom Bender
The Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth has Enriched the Few,
Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet by Richard Douthwaite
Appropriate Technology
Bicycling Magazine's Complete Guide to Bicycle Maintenance and Repair: For Road and Mountain Bikes by Todd Downs
Alternative Education
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn
