Recommended Reading
Note: These books are about understanding “the big picture.” The item on the blog called “Books I Most Heartily Recommend” is more about understanding/transformation at the individual level. For sure, I recommend all the books most heartily, though!! (I must also add that this is a very partial list, & I keep adding more to it as I recall more books that have really affected my thinking.)
** A New Earth – Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Eckhart Tolle, Plume, 2006.
Becoming the Kind Father – A Son’s Journey, Calvin Sandborn, New Society Publishers, 2007.
Blessed Unrest – How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming, Paul Hawken, Viking, 2007.
Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic, Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey and Anne Wordsworth, New Society Publishers, 2007.
Coming Back to Life – Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World, Joanna Macy & Molly Young Brown, New Society Publishers, 1998.
** Depletion and Abundance – Life on the New Home Front or, One Woman’s Solutions to Finding Abundance for Your Family while Coming to Terms with Peak Oil, Climate Change and Hard Times, Sharon Astyk, New Society Publishers, 2008.
Evolution’s End – Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence, Joseph Chilton Pearce, HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.
Fire with Fire – The New Female Power and How it Will Change the 21st Century, Naomi Wolf, Random House of Canada, 1993.
** Heat – How to Stop the Planet from Burning, George Monbiot, Doubleday, 2006.
In the Absence of the Sacred – The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations, Jerry Mander, Sierra Club Books, 1992.
Ishmael – An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit, Daniel Quinn, Bantam/Turner, 1992.
“My Name is Chellis & I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization,” Chellis Glendinning, Shambhala, 1994.
Navigating the Tides of Change – Stories from Science, the Sacred, and a Wise Planet, David La Chapelle, New Society Publishers, 2001.
Rogue Primate – An exploration of human domestication, John A. Livingston, Key Porter Books, 1994.
Scorched Earth – The Military’s Assault on the Environment, William Thomas, New Society Publishers, 1995.
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
Small is Beautiful – A Study of Economics as if People Mattered, E.F. Schumacher, Abacus, 1973.
The Chalice & the Blade – Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler, HarperSanFranciso, 1988. Patriarchy and the herstory we have been missing; the dominator principle isn’t the whole story!
The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming, Guy Dauncey, New Society Publishers, 2009.
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ – The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance, Matthew Fox, HarperSanFrancisco, 1988.
The Daily Planet Book of Cool Ideas – Global Warming & What People Are Doing About It, Jay Ingram, Penguin Canada, 2008.
The Dream of the Earth, Thomas Berry, Sierra Club Books, 1988.
The Great Work – Our Way into the Future, Thomas Berry, Bell Tower/Random House, 1999.
The Great Turning – From Empire to Earth Community, David C. Korten, 2006.
The Pagan Christ – Recovering the Lost Light, Tom Harpur, Thomas Allen Publishers, 2004.
When Technology Wounds – The Human Consequences of Progress, Chellis Glendinning, William Morrow and Company, 1990.
Wisdom of the Elders, Peter Knudtson & David Suzuki, Stoddart, 1992.
World as Lover, World as Self – Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal, Joanna Macy, Parallax Press, 2007.