A. Ficus's Book Recommendations
Here is a list of books and other publications that align themselves with Green Values. Most recommendations came from
Chlorophyll where you can find semi-reviews. (Thanks to
"Dee's Dotes": Anecdotes of a "Green" Activist for the list below.)
Green Reads
Green Values:
Grassroots Democracy~Social Justice~Ecological Wisdom~Non-violence~Decentralization
Community-based Economics~Feminism~Diversity~Responsibility~Future Focus
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Matter by E. F. Schumacher
Diet for a Small Planet and Recipies for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
Deschooling Society and Energy and Equity by Ivan Illich
Designing the Green Economy by Brian Milani
Believing Casandra by Alan AtKisson
Greed and Good by Sam Pizzigati
Sustainable Planet, Juliet Schor and Betsy Taylor (eds.)
Ecological Design, Sim van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan
Cradle to Cradle, William McDonough and Michael Braungart
The Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers
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Endgame, Welcome to the Machine (with George Draffan), Walking on Water, Strangely Like War, The Culture of Make Believe, A Language Older Than Words, Listening to the Land, and Railroads and Clearcuts by Derrick Jensen
Beyond Growth by Herman Daly
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
When Corporations Rule the World, followed up by The Post-Corporate World by David Korten.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
A Doll's House by Henrik_Ibsen - particularly relates to the Feminism Key Value. (See Gregg Jocoy's commentary.)
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