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| Recommended videos, books, and other eco-resources This is the latest update of a list of recommended books, videos, and other eco-resources that has been compiled by QEW supporters. * = Quaker authors Your input and comments on these selections can be made by contacting the QEW office, <info@quakerearthcare.org>. We can also use links to existing on-line reviews of these and other resources. One Ocean series on CBC by David Suzuki: <http://oneocean.cbc.ca/> Happy, a documentary Countdown to Zero: <http://sundance.bside.com/2010/films/countdowntozero_sundance2010> An Inconvenient Nuke: Strange Days on Planet Earth: Dirty Secrets. John Hudson suggests Energy CrossRoads: <http://www.energyxroads.com/>and The Great Squeeze: <http://thegreatsqueeze.com/about.html>. These are excellent peak oil videos. Ray Anderson, William McDonough, and Chris Martenson on YouTube. McDonough has several cites. Chris Martenson has the 20-chapter (video) The Crash Course on the effects of exponential growth on a finite source: Carbon Nation by Peter Bych (see list of interviews), based on Roston's book Carbon Age. <http://carbonnation.org/> Earthkeepers / Visionnaires Planetaires (2009) by Sylvie van Brabant The Great Warming (2007) by Karen Koshof, an interfaith approach Home (2009) by Yann Arthus-Bertrand: The Age of Stupid (2009) by Frannie Armstrong The Story of Stuff (2008) by Annie Leonard: The Story of Cap and Trade (2009) by Annie Leonard: Winged Migration (2001) by Jacques Perrin
http://www.greenissexy.org/category/green-screen/ adds: The End of the Line: No Impact Man: The Real Dirt on Farmer John: King Corn Ted Talks: Food Inc.: The Cove: Waterlife: The Lazy Environmentalist: The Meatrix: Wall-E: What Would Jesus Buy?: A Global Warning: Rivers and Tides: Life After People: The End of Suburbia: and more. Clive Hamilton, Requiem for a species: why we resist the truth about climate change (2010) World Bank, The Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change: Synthesis Report (2010) estimates the costs of adaptation will be between US$70-100 billion per year between now and 2050. Among the lessons from seven case studies and a global study, the report highlights that eliminating poverty is central to both development Julia Whitty, Our Ocean Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean (July 2010) Sylvia A. Earle, The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's are One (2009) Trevor Herriot, Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds (2009) Taras Grescoe, Bottom Feeder: how to eat ethically in a world of vanishing seafood (2010) David Suzuki & Holly Dressel, More Good News: Real Solutions to the Global Eco-Crisis (2010) an update of their 2003 best-seller James Hansen, Storms of My Grandchildren (2009) and web updates Guy Dauncey, The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming (2009), and his EcoNews Brian Pooley, The Climate Wars (2010) politics in USA Gal Luft and Anne Korin, Turning Oil into Salt, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security reviewed in Huffington, Korin video Kolya Abramsky, ed. Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution (2010) Brian Tokar, Toward Climate Justice (2010) Eric Roston The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat (2010) reviews Jenny Ratcliffe, Integrity, Ecology, and Community: The Motion of Love (Pendle Hill Pamphlet). Riane Eisler, The Real Wealth of Nations - suggested by Angela Manno Alistair Sweeny, Black Bonanza: Canada's Oil Sands and the Race to Secure North America's Energy Future (2010) he is a denier Fred Ackermann, Can We Afford the Future? The Economics of a Warming World (Zed 2009) an economist vs Lomborg - review Peter Victor, Managing without Growth (2009) - book review and PPT Gus Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (2009) - reviews Cleo Paskal, Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map (2010) predicts BRIC+SA takeover (http://www.globalwarring.com) - review Peter Senge et al., Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society (2007) suggested by Mary Jo Klingel Scott Patterson The Quants, Michael Lewis The Big Short and Liar's Poker, on Wall Street players Sarah-Jayne Clifton, A Dangerous Obsession (FOE-UK 2009, online) about carbon trading Mary Collins, American Idle (2010) Sam Stein, Noah's Garden, on biodiversity Doug Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home and DVD Gardening for Life - from Tom Small Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals (2010) Global Humanitarian Forum, The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis (2009), on climate change; includes case studies Robert Costanza, John H. Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, and Richard B. Norgaard, An Introduction to Ecological Economics (online, Encyc of Earth) Peter Barnes, Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (online, Encyc of Earth, ca 2008) Adil Najam, David Runnalls, and Mark Halle, Environment and Globalization: Five Propositions (online, Encyc of Earth, 2007)
Alanna Mitchell, Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis (2009) State of the World's Indigenous Peoples (2009) recommended by Jennifer Preston of CFSC Bill McKibben, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010) *NEF Economics Foundation, Other Worlds Are Possible (2009) *Peter Brown et al, Right Relationship (2009) *James Bruges, The Big Earth Book (2nd ed. 2009) David Korten, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth (2009) Lester Brown, Plan B 2.0 Peter Barnes, Capitalism 3.0 *QIAP, The Future Control of Food (2007) James Kunstler, A World Made By Hand (2009) novel Greenpeace, Nuclear Meltdown: A Message from the Darkness (2009), comic book Kate Evans, The Carbon Supermarket - Your Future for Sale (9-page comic Nov 2009) Franke James, Bothered by My Green Conscience (2009) illustrated autobiography of a soccer mom Scott Sabin, Tending to Eden: Environmental Stewardship for God's People (2010) focus on his Haiti experience, reviewed by FORE Bron Taylor, Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (2010) international interviews, reviewed by FORE "Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology," Netherlands academic journal http://www.brill.nl/wo Earth Charter Initiative, Global Oneness Project; What Connects Us? (in preparation 2010) New, reviewed in Resurgence Alison Benjamin & Brian McCallum, A World without Bees: The Mysterious Decline of the Honeybee and what it Means for Us (2010) Brian Keeble, God and Work: Aspects of Art and Tradition (2009) Jeremy Naydler, The Future of the Ancient World: Essays on the History of Consciousness (2010) Gregory Sam, Sun of gOd: Discover the self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything (2010) Ursula King, The Search for Spirituality: Our Global Quest for Meaning and Fulfillment (2010) Sulak Sivaraksa, The Wisdom of Sustainability: Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century (2010) Jonathan Stedall, Where on Earth is Heaven? (2010) Thomas Moore, A Life at Work: The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do (2009) Hugh Warwick, A Prickly Affair: My Life with Hedgehogs (2009) Herbert Giradet & Miguel Mendonça, A Renewable World: Policies, Practices and Technologies (2009) Alice Oswald, A Sleepwalk on the Severn (2009) Peter Blaze Corcoran & A. James Wohlparts (eds), A Voice For Earth: American Writers Respond to The Earth Charter (2009) Mark Purdey, Animal Pharm: One Man's Struggle to Discover the Truth about Mad Cow Disease and Variant CJD (2009) New, reviewed in Grist Joe Romm, Hell and High Water (2007) Booklist 10 best 2009 <http://www.booklistonline.com/default.aspx?page=show_product&pid=3297823> Tuie De Roy, Albatross: Their World, Their Ways. (2008) Bill McKibben (ed.), American Earth: Environmental Writing since Thoreau. (2008) Rowan Jacobsen, Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis. (2008) Greg Melville, Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future. (2008) Thomas L. Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America. (2008) the business case for a green economy Frances F. Dunwell, The Hudson: America’s River. (2008) Steven I. Apfelbaum, Nature’s Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm (2009) Wisconsin Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly, Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles. (2008) Amy Irvine, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land (2008) Utah Rick Bass, Why I Came West (2008) Idaho Mother Nature Network top 10, 2009
Peter Laufer, The Dangerous World of Butterflies (2009) Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (2009) James Hoggan & Richard Littlemore, Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming (2009) Amanda Little, Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells — Our Ride to the Renewable Future (2009) Bill Streever, Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places (2009) Robert Glennon, Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to Do about It (2009) Mark Dowie, Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples (2009) Al Gore, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis (2009) Classics from Amazon, David Suzuki's top 10 <http://www.amazon.ca/David-Suzukis-Books-Read-Environment/lm/ALZTRJ6UQRYG> David Suzuki, David Suzuki: An Autobiography David Suzuki, Sacred Balance David Suzuki, You Are the Earth David Suzuki, Salmon Forest David Suzuki, When the Wild Comes Leaping Up David Suzuki, From Naked Ape to Superspecies The David Suzuki Reader Rachel Carson, Silent Spring Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac EO Wilson, The Naturalist, autobiography Carl Safina, Song for the Blue Ocean Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers Al Gore, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit Paul Hawken, Ecology of Commerce, the Wayne Grady, Tree; A Biography. illustrated David Millar's picks Larry Gonick and Alice Outwater, The Cartoon Guide to the Environment (1996) comic Maud Barlow, Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water (2007) Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1968) Donna Haraway, Otherworldly Conversations; Terran Topics; Local Terms (feminist biology, bioethics) or the Donna Haraway Reader. *Jim Corbett, Sanctuary for All Life: The Cowbalah of Jim Corbett Tim Flannery, Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure (1998) autobiography as biologist in Papua New Guinea Marilyn Mehlmann / GAP, Household EcoTeam Workbook (ca 1998) Amory Lovins, Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy (1980) Mike Nickerson, Life, Money and Illusion (2006) Others' picks Tim Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and its Peoples (2001) Rebecca Solnit, Paradise Built in Hell and Hope in the Dark Bill Mollison, Permaculture: A Designer's Manual (1988) Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2008) Gary Kendall, Plugged In: The End of the Oil Age (WWF, 2008)
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