Suggested Reading

Suggested relevant reading for 2009

Books

Here's what Bob Douglas is reading, from the May, 2009 update to his book, SEE-Change Centres, Grey Power and Hope:

Cork, Steven. Brighter prospects: Enhancing  the Resilience or Australia (2009) http://www.australia21.org.au/pdf/A21%20Brighter%20Prospects%20Report.pdf

Eisler Riane. The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a caring economics (2008) Berrett Koehler

Gittins, Ross. Gittinomics. Living the good life without money, stress, overwork and joyless consumption (2007) Allen and Unwin

Hamilton, Clive. Scorcher: The dirty politics of climate change. (2007) Black Inc Agenda

Homer Dixon, Thomas. The upside of down: Catastrophe, creativity and the renewal of civilization. (2006) Island Press

Monbiot, George. Heat. How to stop the planet burning. (2006) Allen Lane 2006.

Monbiot, George. Bring on the Apocalypse. Six arguments for global justice. (2008) Atlantic Books

Spratt, David and Sutton, Philip. Climate code red. The case for emergency action. (2008) Scribe

Gardening books

New York Times review of new Northern Hemisphere gardening books

Australian gardening books from Jackie French

From the UK, a complement to the Transition Towns movement with gardening references

Booklets

Talk Trash!

Simone Annis was one of the presenters at the May 2009 Talk Trash! evening organised by the Inner North SEE-Change group. Simone has kindly made this booklet available to SEE-Change, for you to download as a PDF.

 

Articles

Biodiversity

Oil Prices

The Footprint Concept

Why are we all so busy?

What about you? What are you reading that belongs here? Contact us with your suggested additions.