Learning Resources

Coleman, Eliot. The New Organic Grower. Chelsea Green, 1995. http://www.fourseasonfarm.com/
Crawford, Martin. Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops. Totnes: Green, 2010.
Holmgren, David. Permaculture Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability. Petersfield: Permanent Publications, 2010. http://permacultureprinciples.com/about/
International Living Future Institute. http://living-future.org/
International Passive House Association, http://www.passivehouse-international.org/
Jeavons, J. How to Grow More Vegetables. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed, 2002.
Jenkins, Joseph. The Humanure Handbook, available as a free download at http://humanurehandbook.com/
McNall, Scott. Rapid Climate Change: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions. London: Routledge, 2011.
Solar Energy International. http://www.solarenergy.org/
Tertzakian, P. A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Zehner, O. Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2012.

Robin, V., et al. Your Money or Your Life. New York: Penguin, 2008.
Eisenstein, C. Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, & Society in the Age of Transition. Berkeley, CA: Evolver Editions, 2011.
Jackson, T. Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet. London: Earthscan, 2009.
Hall, Charles A. S. Energy and the Wealth of Nations: Understanding the Biophysical Economy. Springer: 2012.
Korten, D. The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 2006. http://livingeconomiesforum.org/
Leonard, Annie http://www.storyofstuff.org/
New Economics Foundation: http://www.neweconomics.org/
Pickett, K. and R. Wilkinson, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. Bloomsbury, 2011.
PostCarbon Institute, http://www.postcarbon.org/
Schumacher, E. F. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if people mattered. London: Blond & Briggs, 1973. http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/

Buck, J., and S. Villines. We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy : A Guide to Sociocratic Principles and Methods. Washington, DC: Sociocracy, 2007.
Christakis, N., and J. Fowler. Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009. http://connectedthebook.com/
Christian, Diana Leafe. Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2003.
Cohousing Association of the U.S., http://www.cohousing.org/ (includes international cohousing communities)
Eurotopia, community directory and magazine: http://www.eurotopia.de/english.html
Fellowship for Intentional Communities: Community Directory and Communities magazine. http://www.ic.org/
Rosenberg, M. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. Encinitas, CA: PuddleDancer, 2003.
International Consortium for Local Environmental Initiative. http://www.iclei.org/
Seeds for Change: Resources for consensus decision making. http://seedsforchange.org.uk/
Sociocracy. http://www.sociocracy.info/
World Cafe Community (2002) Cafe to Go! A quick reference guide for putting conversations to work. Whole Systems Associates. http://www.theworldcafe.com/

Berry, Thomas. The Great Work: Our Way into the Future. New York: Bell Tower, 1999. Essays, books and films about Thomas Berry’s work at http://www.thomasberry.org
Dowd, Michael. Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World. New York: Viking, 2008.
Elgin, Duane. Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness. New York: Morrow, 1993.
Harding, Stephan. Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2006.
Joanna Macy, including The Work That Reconnects. http://www.joannamacy.net/
Litfin, Karen, “The Sacred and the Profane in the Ecological Politics of Sacrifice” in Michael
Maniates and John Meyer (eds.), The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice. Boston: MIT Press, 2010.
Natural Genesis, an annotated bibliography on the Universe Story. http://www.naturalgenesis.net/
Phipps, C. Evolutionaries: Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science’s Greatest Idea. New York: Harper Perennial, 2012.
Uhl, C.. Developing Ecological Consciousness. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. http://www.chrisuhl.net/‎

Community Solutions. http://www.communitysolution.org/
Hopkins, Rob. The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. Totnes, England: Green, 2008. See his blog at http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins
Transition Network http://www.transitionnetwork.org/
The Natural Step: Accelerating Change Toward Sustainability for Businesses and Communities. http://www.naturalstep.org/
Hamilton, M. Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive. Gabriola, BC: New Society, 2008. http://www.integralcity.com/
Meadows, D., and D. Wright. Thinking in Systems: A Primer. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008.
Resilience. http://www.resilience.org/
Resurgence Magazine. http://www.resurgence.org/
Schumacher College: Transformative Learning for Sustainable Living. http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/
Solutions for a Sustainable and Desirable Future. http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/
The Común Tierra Project: http://www.comuntierra.org
The Sustainability Social Network: http://www.wiser.org/

Global Ecovillage Network