People learn in different ways: Books, articles, videos, conversation, experience. I am a reader. Most of what I read relates to future visions of energy and resource availability, our relationship with technology, philosophy, the evolution of society, and broad thinking on sustainability.
Reading List
The Nature of Order, Book 1 – The Phenomenon of Life by Christopher Alexander
The Nature of Technology – What It Is and How It Evolves by W. Brian Arthur
Biomimicry by Janine Benyus
Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm
Better Off by Eric Brende
Plan B 3.0, Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester Brown
The Web of Life – A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems by Fritjof Capra
Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
Silent Spring by Rachael Carson
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Planetwalker by John Francis
Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments by David Gissen
Building Ecology by Peter Graham
The Ecotechnic Future – Envisioning a Post-Peak World by John Michael Greer
Peak Everything by Richard Heinberg
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren
The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson
Mindfully Green: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking by Stephanie Kaza
One Man’s Wilderness by Sam Keith
Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The Systems View of the World – A Holistic Vision for Our Time by Ervin Laszlo
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
The Passive Solar Energy Book by Ed Mazria
Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
The Philosophy of Sustainable Design by Jason F. McLennan
Limits to Growth – The 30-Year Update by Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
Nature Writings by John Muir
Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Nash
The Good Life by Helen Nearing
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The End of Oil by Paul Roberts
A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement by Philip Shabecoff
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Cats Paws and Catapults: Mechanical World of Nature and People by Steven Vogel
Biologic: Environmental Protection by Design by David Wann
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Organizations, Thought Leaders and Resources