Reading List

Recommended books, tomes and tracts that have crossed my bedside table.

Seems I only have time to read late, late at night—after my son goes to bed, the kitchen is cleaned up, the clothes washing machine has been loaded, etc., etc. Still, it’s the quiet time of day I have all to myself…

See the Quotes page for specific inspiration!

Cortese, Amy. Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit from It (2011). (Related blog post)

Durning, Alan. How Much Is Enough?: The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth (The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series) (1992).

Greider, William. The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy (2003). (Related blog post)

Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (2007).

Heinberg, Richard. The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality (2011).

Hoelting, Kurt. The Circumference of Home: One Man’s Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life (2010).

Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2008).

Korten, David C. Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth (2010).

Kovel, Joel. The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? (2002). (Related blog post)

Lamb, David. A Sense of Place: Listening to Americans (1993).

McDaniel, Carl M. Wisdom for a Livable Planet: The Visionary Work of Terri Swearingen, Dave Foreman, Wes Jackson, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Werner Fornos, Herman Daly, Stephen Schneider, and David Orr (2005).

Patel, Raj. The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy (2010).

van Gelder, Sarah. ed. This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement (2011).

YES! Magazine (www.yesmagazine.org)