Most of the sources below promote a systemic approach to our current problems, i.e. they are not about saving the whales or reforming democracy. They rather propose a radical shift in the way we live.
Anthropology & Ethnology
- Ancient Futures / Helena Norberg-Hodge
- Future Primitive / John Zerzan
- Don’t sleep, there are snakes. Life and language in the Amazonian jungle / Daniel L. Everett
Economy
- I want the Earth plus 5% / Larry Hannigan
- The Impact of Globalization on Food and Water / Vandana Shiva
- The Story Of Stuff / Annie Leonard
- Living in the gift / Charles Eisenstein
Logic
- Arithmetic, Population and Energy / A.Bartlett
- The Tyranny of Words / Stuart Chase
Collapsing consciously
- The world without us / Alan Weisman
- Endgame: The Problem of Civilization / Derrick Jensen
- Primitivism [sources of anarcho-primitivism]
- Person/Planet: The creative desintegration of industrial society / Theodore Roszak
Education
- Deschooling Society / Ivan Illich
Plants and animals
- Earthlings - If you can't stand this, go vegan.
- The Secret Life of Plants - They may be slow...
Food and farming
- The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to natural farming / Masanobu Fukuoka
- Meat the truth - A talk about the impact of eating meat / Marianne Thieme
Spirituality
- Interview with Marshall Rosenberg on Non-violent communication / Paula Gloria
- Letters on Yoga / Sri Aurobindo
- The real revolution / J.Krishnamurti
- The way of Liberation / Adyashanti
- A brief history of everything / Ken Wilber
- The Ascent of Humanity / Charles Eisenstein
- Scared Sacred / Velcrow Ripper
- Is there no other way? The search for a nonviolent future / Michael N. Nagler
Intentional communes
- Creating a life together: Practical tools to grow ecovillages and intentional communities / Diana Leafe Christian
- Auroville - a universal city in the making - A real township in India based on the principles of Sri Aurobindo. Founded in 1968, now 2500+ inhabitants.
- Findhorn - A spiritual ecovillage in Scotland since 1962, currently 450+ inhabitants.
- Las Gaviotas - Simple living in Vichada, Colombia. Founded 1971, currently 200 inhabitants.
- Tamera - Large commune since 1978, in current place (S Portugal) since 1995. ~250 inhabitants.
- Twin Oaks Community - A Walden II derivate ecovillage of 100 people in Virginia, USA; since 1967.
Climate Change
- Extinction dialogs: How to live with death in mind / Carolyn Baker & Guy McPherson
- data sources: DMI on Arctic temperatures, Climate reanalyzer, Nullschool Weather Globe, NSIDC on Arctic sea ice, Google Arctic sea ice graphs, NASA global climate change, PIOMAS, ESA.
- scientists: Guy McPherson, Sam Carana, Peter Wadhams, Paul Beckwith, Eric Rignot, Kevin Anderson.
- great journalists, essayists, podcasters: Dahr Jamail, Carolyn Baker, Robin Westenra, Jennifer Hynes, Kevin Hester, Deb Ozarko, Derrick Jensen, Mike Ruppert, Thom Hartmann, Paul Henry.
- must-read: overview from Mach was!?, summary from Nature Bats Last, impact on food production, human survival, species survival, weather patterns; governments are informed (since at least 1965) big oil too, corruption or corruption or fear?
- must-see: McPherson interview, Peter Wadhams interview, Natalia Shakhova interview, Methane Monster I & II,
