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Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock.  Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history.  Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. 
~Stephen Jay Gould,
"Our Allotted Lifetimes," The Panda's Thumb, 1980
earth image
Energy Cosmology Spiritual Sustainability
Ecology/Conservation Food Socio/Economic Climate Change
Water Permaculture


Energy
Tar Sands, Andrew Nikiforuk

Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland, Jeff Biggers

Common Sense, Clean Energy: An American Call to Action of Global Climate Change, Frances Beinecke

Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addition to Oil and Coal, Michael Brune


Cosmology
The Universe is a Green Dragon,

The Universe Story, Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme


Spiritual
The Dream of the Earth, Thomas Berry

Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community, Thomas Berry

The Great Work, Thomas Berry

The Hidden Heart Of The Cosmos: Humanity And The New Story, Brian Swimme

Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy, Peter G. Brown
Geoff Garver

The Work That Reconnects, Joanna Macy

World As Lover, World As Self, Joanna Macy


Sustainability
The Big Picture, David Suzuki

Confesson of an Eco-sinner, Fred Pearce

Earth In The Balance, Al Gore

Ecological Intelligence, Daniel Goleman

Natural Capitalism, Paul Hawken

Red Sky At Morning, James Speth

Ecology/Conservation
The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan

Second Nature, Michael Pollan

Silent Spring, Rachel Carson

Tree: A Life Story, David Suzuki

Socio/Economic
Agenda For A New Economy, David Korten

Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, Vandana Shiva

Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken

The Bridge At The End Of The World, James Speth

Deep Economy, Bill McKibben

Earth Democracy, Vandana Shiva

The Ecology of Commerce, Paul Hawken

Global Environmental Governance, James Speth

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, David Korten

Green Collar Economy, Van Jones

When Corporations Rule The World, David Korten

Worlds Apart: Globalizaton and the Environment, James Speth

Food
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsovler

In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan

Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Dining and Living, Carlo Petrini

Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair, Carlo Petrini

Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History, Carlo Petrini

Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva

Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed, Vandana Shiva

Stolen Harvest, Vandana Shiva

Public Produce, Darrin Nordahl

Diet for a Hot Planet, Anna Lappe

Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, Anna Lappe and Terry Bryant

Climate Change
American Earth, Bill McKibben

An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore

Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World, Fred Pearce

End of Nature, Bill McKibben

Fight Global Warming Now, Bill McKibben

The Last Generation, Fred Pearce

With Speed and Violence, Fred Pearce

Water
Tapped Out, Senator Paul Simon

Water Wars, Vandana Shiva

When the Rivers Run Dry, Fred Pearce

Written in Water: Messages of Hope for Earth's Most Precious Resource, Irene Salina


Permaculture
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, Toby Hemenway