Transitions from Globalization to Eco-Localism
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Reading List
Becoming an effective activist requires understanding complex sets of issues in depth, and in a full context. We believe that developing and refining one’s worldview—how one understands the root causes of the current, global ecosocial crisis—creates the foundation for more specific, strategic work to ameliorate the problems facing nature and people.
This reading list is just a start, and a work in progress. Not included are books we have published; for a list of those works, see here.
Environmental Ethics
The Spell of the Sensuous—David Abram The Dream of the Earth—Thomas Berry The Rebirth of Environmentalism—Douglas Bevington Silent Spring—Rachel Carson Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered—Bill Devall and George Sessions The Ecology of Wisdom: Writings by Arne Naess—ed. Alan Drengson and Bill Devall A Sand County Almanac—Aldo Leopold Can Life Prevail?—Penti Linkola Rogue Primate—John Livingston The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics—Roderick Nash Dwellers in the Land—Kirkpatrick Sale Ecofeminism—Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies
Environmental History
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America—Douglas Brinkley The American Conservation Movement—Stephen Fox American Environmental History: An Introduction—Carolyn Merchant Wilderness and the American Mind—Roderick Nash Crucible for Conservation—Robert Righter National Parks: The American Experience—Alfred Runte Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas—Donald Worster A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir—Donald Worster
Conservation and Wildlife
Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balance—Tom Butler Rewilding North America—Dave Foreman Wildlife in America—Peter Matthiessen Saving Nature’s Legacy—Reed Noss and Alan Cooperrider The Diversity of Life—Edward O. Wilson
Technology, Culture, Agriculture
The Unsettling of America—Wendell Berry The Geography of Nowhere—James Howard Kunstler Deschooling Society—Ivan Illich Shadow Work—Ivan Illich Consulting the Genius of the Place—Wes Jackson In the Absence of the Sacred—Jerry Mander The Death of Nature—Carolyn Merchant The Myth of the Machine—Lewis Mumford The Only World We've Got: A Paul Shepard Reader—Paul Shepard The Resurgence of the Real—Charlene Spretnak The Whale and the Reactor—Langdon Winner
Energy, Economics, Overpopulation
Overshoot—William S. Catton Life on the Brink—Eileen Crist and Philip Cafaro Manswarm—Dave Foreman The Long Descent—John Michael Greer Living Within Limits—Garrett Hardin The End of Growth—Richard Heinberg The Party’s Over—Richard Heinberg The Capitalism Papers—Jerry Mander
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