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RECOMMENDED READING
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Looking to learn more about a particular topic? This is an evolving list of reading recommended by our members.
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Green Economy
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| Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution |
Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins |
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| Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things |
William McDonough, Michael Braungart |
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Sustainable Building/Land Use
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| Bay-Friendly Landscape Guidelines - Sustainable Practices for the Landscape Professional |
Stopwaste.org |
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Energy
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| Coming Clean-Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal |
Michael Brune |
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Food
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| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life |
Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver |
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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Michael Pollan |
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| Stuffed and Starved |
Raj Patel |
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Miscellaneous
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| Understanding and Responding to Climate Change - Highlights of National Acadamies Reports |
National Acadamies of Science and Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council |
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| The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future |
Thomas Berry |
"Great Work indeed! Thomas Berry offers us the benefit of a lifetime of clear-headed, cleared hearted reflection. And in doing so he shows us where our tasks lie...." Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature |
| The Dream of the Earth |
Thomas Berry |
A classic for a basic awakening of our consciousness to our deep desire to know that "We belong to our Earth" as Chief Seattle reminds us. It focuses on our Human Presence and what that means for us today in our one, single, living Earth community of land, water, plants, animinals, humans, all.
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming
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Paul Hawkens |
A powerful sourcebook of our millions of networks like CASA, Greenpeace, etc and the movement that these grassroot groups has begun. |

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Comments (1)
Mpomeroy said
at 5:15 pm on Dec 4, 2008
The Transition Handbook
From oil dependency to local resilience
By Rob Hopkins, founder of the transition movement.
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