Appendix 1: Books

This appendix lists most books that are cited in the text. For many books I have added comments. My favorite books are marked with an asterisk.

Abbreviations in brackets indicate the chapters in which the book is cited, according to this table:

New books related to ecocentrism are being published frequently, especially by Chelsea Green Publishing, New Society Publishers, and Island Press. In addition, the Schumacher Society has many relevant lectures and essays available as pamphlets or for reading online.

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Abbey, Edward (1975). The Monkey Wrench Gang. A classic! [art]

Abbey, Edward (1990). Hayduke Lives. Little, Brown, Boston MA. The return of the Monkey Wrench Gang. [dec, art]

Ayres, Ed (1999). God's Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future. Four walls Eight Windows, New York. After discussing the four megatrends (spikes) of carbon gas, extinction, consumption, and population, he assesses the incredible amount of control over our lives exercised by megacorporations and how to reduce it. Somewhat disappointing in that he spends about 250 pages on the problems and only 50 on a fairly shallow discussion of solutions. [now]

Barlow, Connie (1994). Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of Life. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. [uni]

 Barlow, Connie (1997). Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science. Springer-Verlag, New York. Inter-relates conservation biology, the Universe Story, Gaia, deep ecology, and ecospirituality. [con int uni]

Bates, Albert (2006). The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times. New Society, Gabriola Island BC. [hou]

 Beck, Roy (1996). The Case Against Immigration: The moral, economic, social, and environmental reasons for reducing U.S. immigration back to traditional levels. W.W. Norton, New York. US population is increasing by 1.0 million a year from legal immigration and 1.6 million a year from excess of births over deaths. The unprecedented numbers of immigrants take low-paying jobs from the poor and the minorities who are already here. [pop]

Bellamy, David J. (1983). Bellamy's New World: A Botanical History of America. British Broadcasting Corp. [con]

 Berry, Thomas (1988). The Dream of the Earth. Sierra Club, San Francisco. A collection of essays by the leading ecotheologian covers bioregionalism, native-American spirituality, ecotheology, education, the New Story of the universe. A "Bible" for the movement. [dec int jus spi]

Berry, Thomas (1999). The Great Work: Our Way into the Future. Bell Tower, New York. A collection of essays from one of the leading philosophers of the Movement. "We need to move from our human-centered to an earth-centered norm of reality and value. Only in this way can we fulfill our human role within the functioning of the planet we live on." [clu dec]

Beston, Henry (1942). Farrar & Rinehart, New York. The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod. [dec uni]

Blood, Peter and Annie Patterson (1992). Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook. Sing Out Corp., Bethlehem PA. Contains a variety of environmental, nature, peace, and work songs. [art]

Brill, Hal, Jack A. Brill, and Cliff Feigenbaum (1999). Investing With Your Values: Making Money and Making a Difference. Bloomberg Press, Princeton NJ. If you have any money invested anywhere, get this book! Everything you want to know about socially-responsible investing. [sri]

Bowen, Mark (2008). Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth Of Global Warming. Dutton Books, New York. How the Bush adminstration endeavoured to muzzle Dr. James Hansen, the government scientist who analyzes global temperature trends. [now]

Brockelman, Paul (1999). Cosmology and Creation: The Spiritual Significance of Contemporary Cosmology. Oxford University Press, New York. [uni spi]

Brody, Hugh (1982). Maps and Dreams. Pantheon, New York. The effects of recent development on Native Americans in British Columbia [jus]

Broome, Jon (2007). The Green Self-build Book: How to Design and Build Your Own Eco-home. Green Books, U.K. [hou]

Brower, Michael and Warren Leon (1999). The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Three Rivers Press, New York. A comprehensive look at the full range of modern consumer activities, identifying those that cause the most environmental damage and those that cause the least. [sus]

Brown, Lester (2001). Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. Norton. What we need to do to ensure a livable planet and how some countries are ahead of the U.S. in doing it. [tur]

Brown, Lester R. (2008). Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. Earth Policy Institute, Washington DC. [tur]

Callenbach, Ernest (1975). Ecotopia. Bantam Books, New York. Classic novel of the Pacific Northwest after it secedes from the rest of the country. It's easy to dream about living in such a wonderful future. Don't be put off by the 70's sexuality. [art]

Callenbach, Ernest (1981). Ecotopia Emerging. Banyan Tree Books, Berkeley CA. The founding of Ecotopia. The Pacific Northwest secedes from the US, thanks partly to a teenager's discovery of an efficient home-made solar cell. A bit far-fetched, and not very well-written. But if any of you think you can write a better novel about how we can get out of this mess, please, please, please do it. [art]

Calloway, Colin G., ed. (1991). Dawnland Encounters: Indians and Europeans in Northern New England. University Press of New England, Hanover NH. A collection of writings by both sides about the European invasion of my bioregion. [bio]

Capra, Fritjof (1982). The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture. Simon and Schuster, New York. [dec]

Capra, Fritjof (1996). The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. [uni]

Carroll, John E. and Keith Warner, eds. (2000). Ecology and Religion: Scientists Speak. Franciscan Press, Quincy IL. [spi]

 Carroll, John, Paul Brockelman, and Mary Westfall, eds. (1997). The Greening of Faith. Essays from a conference "God, the Environment, and the Good Life" held at the University of New Hampshire. A wide variety of religious views include aspects of ecocentrism. A very encouraging book. [int spi]

Carson, Rachel (1962). Silent Spring. Houghton-Mifflin, New York. [con]

Charbonneau, Louis (1991). The Ice. Pocket Books, New York. Ecocentric biologists versus anthropocentric developers in Antarctica. [art]

Commoner, Barry (1971). The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. A classic on the need for sustainability. [pol sus]

Conkling Philip W., ed. (1995). From Cape Cod to the Bay of Fundy: An Environmental Atlas of the Gulf of Maine. The MIT Press, Cambridge MA. An excellent and beautiful education about the Gulf of Maine bioregion and how it works. Satellite images provide many kinds of information. [bio]

Daly, Herman E. (1996). Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. Beacon Press, Boston. [sus]

Darley, Julian (2004). High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis. Chelsea Green, White River Jct. VT. [ene]

Deffeyes, Kenneth (2005). Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak. Hill and Wang, New York. [ene]

Devall, Bill, and George Sessions (1985). Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered. Gibbs M. Smith, Salt Lake City UT. [dec]

Diamond, Irene, and Gloria Feman Orenstein, eds. (1990). Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. A collection of essays on various aspects of feminism as it relates to the issues covered on these web pages. [fem]

 Dominguez, Joe and Vicki Robin (1992). Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence. Second edition. The classic book on changing your spending habits by reducing your "wants", so you can save and invest for an early retirement from money-grubbing. [sim sri]

Donahue, Brian, and Wes Jackson (2001). Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town. Yale University Press, 2001. [fod]

Drengson, Alan, and Yuichi Inoue (1995). The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley CA. Most of these essays are heavy going, but I like "For a Radical Ecocentrism" by Andrew McLaughlin. [dec]

Eckersley, Robyn (1992). Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach. State University of New York Press, Albany NY. The impact of environmentalism upon contemporary political thought. Disentangles the various strands of Green politics. [pol]

Ehrenfeld, David (1978). The Arrogance of Humanism. Oxford University Press. Classic attack on humanism as anthropocentric. [dec]

Eisler, Riane (1987). The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future. Harper One, San Francisco. The classic in feminist herstory. [fem uni]

Elder, John (1998). Reading the Mountains of Home. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA. An exploration of the natural and human history of mountains around Bristol, Vermont is tied to Robert Frost's poem "Directive". This is an excellent example of bioregional writing that would be nice to emulate for every sub-bioregion. [bio]

 Elgin, Duane (1993). Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich. 2nd edition. William Morrow, New York. Originally published in 1981 this is a classic. It shows how simplifying the externals of life goes hand-in-hand with a richer, simpler inward life. Reducing one's supposed "needs" for money and material objects allows greater time for contact with people and Earth. [sim]

 Elgin Duane (1993). Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness. William Morrow, New York. A long-range view of human evolution, past, present, and future, which holds out hope that we need to pass through the current fourth stage, the scientific-industrial era before we can move on through higher levels of consciousness to a truly global, mindful, sustainable, human civilization existing within a natural world. Read this book for a hopeful and satisfying vision of where we can go if we choose. [clu sim spi]

Elgin, Duane (2000). Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future. Harper-Collins NY. [clu]

Elgin, Duane and Coleen LeDrew (1997). Global Consciousness Change: Indicators of an Emerging Paradigm. Millennium Project, San Rafael CA. A booklet that shows how things are beginning to change. Also includes a study circle guide. Order from The Simple Living Network - see above. [tur]

Elliot, Robert (1997). Faking Nature: The Ethics of Environmental Restoration. Routledge. This looks heavy but good and may continue my discussion on restoration ecology. [con]

Fisher, Andy (2002). Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of Life. SUNY Press. [ecp]

Flores, H.C. (2006). Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community. Chelsea Green, White River Jct. VT. [fod]

 Fodor, Eben (1999). Better, Not Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community. New Society, Gabriola Island BC. How "development" destroys local businesses, reduces open space, and raises property taxes, and what communities can do about it by protecting land. [sus]

Gelbspan, Ross (1997). The Heat Is On: The High Stakes Battle over Earth's Threatened Climate. Addison-Wesley, Reading MA. A must read for anyone who still doesn't believe in anthropogenic global warming. Accurately documents that virtually all the scientific "opposition" comes from only about 6 scientists who repeatedly get "equal time" with the many thousands of scientists who are seriously concerned. [now]

Goodenough, Ursula (1998). The Sacred Depths of Nature. Oxford University Press, New York. [spi]

Gottlieb, Robert (2001). Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. Urges environmentalists to add health, food, and safety to their U.S. agendas. [jus]

Gore, Al (1992). Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. Houghton- Mifflin, Boston. He lost the Presidency because in eight years as Vice-President he didn't say much about the call for change that's in his book. [now]

Grant, Lindsay (2005). The Collapsing Bubble: Growth and Fossil Energy. Seven Locks Press, Santa Ana, California. Includes need to greatly reduce population. [ene]

Hallman, David G., ed. (1994). Ecotheology: Voices from South and North. Orbis Books, Maryknoll NY. The Bible, ecofeminism, creation stories, liberation theology. [spi]

Hartmann, Thom (2004). The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late. Three Rivers Press, New York. Ecology, energy, and population. [ene]

Harvey, Graham (2005). Animism: Respecting the Living World. Hurst, UK. [spi]

Hawken, Paul (1993). The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability. Harper Business, NYC. A classic in the business of sustainability. He proposes taxes on products having environmental impacts, with the income used for Earth restoration. [glo sus]

 Hawken, Paul (2007). Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. Viking, New York. Describes the world-wide, unnamed, grass-roots movement that combines environmental and social justice action by perhaps millions of local organizations. [bio con int jus pol tur]

Hawkins ,Howie, ed. (2006). Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate. Haymarket Books, Chicago. [pol]

Hays, Samuel (2006). Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America. University of Pittsburgh Press. Describes the continuing fight between so-called "professional foresters" trained in commodity production and "ecosystem managers" trained in ecological function, a microcosm of anthropocentric versus ecocentric thinking. [con sus tur]

Heal, Geoffrey (2000). Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing the Value of Ecosystem Services. Island Press, Washington DC. [sus]

Heinberg, Richard (2004). Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-carbon World. New Society, Gabriola Island BC. [ene]

Heinberg, Richard (rev. 2005). The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies. New Society, Gabriola Island BC. [ene]

Hendrich, Paula (1978). The Girl Who Slipped Through Time. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, New York. A girl from Earth after the Ecowar finds herself back in 1934. This Weekly Reader book for youth has a surprising amount of deep ecology in it. [art]

Henrick, Richard (1993). Ecowar. Harper Paperbacks, New York. Ecoactivists use a supersubmarine to wage war on humans involved in illegal killing of whales and dolphins. Raises the deep spiritual question of the relative importance of the life of a non-human to the life of a human. [art]

Hightower, Jim (2001). If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates (revised). Harper-Collins, New York. Devastating description of how corporations rule politics, America, and the world. But he provides lots of ideas about what needs to be changed. Much on how Gore lost the election, and it wasn't because of Nader. [pol]

Howe, John G. (2006). The End of Fossil Energy and the Last Chance for Survival. McIntire Publishing, Fryeburg ME. A fine discussion of the energy crisis and its solution,and its connection to climate change and population growth, with lots of web links and book references. [ene]

Isberg, Roger and Sarah (2007). Simple Life: People Meet Nature. Trafford Publishing, Victoria BC. [ecp]

Kaza, Stephanie (1996). The Attentive Heart: Conversations With Trees. Shambala, Boston. [uni]

Kingsolver, Barbara (2007). Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Harper-Collins, New York. [foo]

Korten, David (1995). When Corporations Rule the World. Kumarian Press. A very influential book. [glo]

Korten, David (1999). The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism. Barrett-Koehler. [sus]

 Korten, David C. (2006). The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco CA, and Kumarian Press, Bloomfield CT. This widely read and recent book describes how we got to where we are now, how nature operates and why we should emulate it, and what a new humanity would look like (Earth Community), but says little either about what individuals can do to help make the transition or about ecocentrism. [bio int glo jus pol tur uni]

Kunstler, James Howard (2008). World Made By Hand. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York. [art]

Leopold, Aldo (1949). A Sand County Almanac. Oxford University Press, Oxford UK; paperback Ballantine, New York. This and Thoreau's Walden are the two originals. [ecp dec]

Littig, Beate (2001). Feminist Perspectives on Environment and Society. Prentice-Hall. A feminist view of the new field of environmental sociology, including discussion of work, consumption, and sustainability. [fem]

Lotter, Donald W. (1993). EarthScore: Your Personal Environmental Audit and Guide. Morning Sun Press, Lafayette CA. Evaluate how you are doing personally in caring for Earth. Assigns points for impact (negative) and action (positive) for various activities. I really like this one because it assigns greater weights for activities with more impact. This is a serious effort to do this right, not just another "100 Things You Can Do". [sus]

 Louv, Richard (2006). Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, NC. This really important book describes how our fear of the natural world and our fear for child safety contributes to behavioral problems in children and perhaps in all of us. We all need to reconnect with the natural world in order to be healthy, happy people. [ecp sim spi]

Lovelock, James (1979, 2000). Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press. [uni]

Low, Alaine M. and Soraya Tremayne, eds. (2002). Sacred Custodians of the Earth?: Women, Spirituality and the Environment. Berghahn Books. [fem]

Macy, Joanna, and Molly Young Brown (1998). Coming Back to Life: Practices to reconnect Our Lives, Our World. New Society, Gabriola Island BC. A collection of exercises for individuals and for workshop leaders to assist in The Great Turning. [dec ecp]

Mander, Gerry (1991). In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations. Sierra Club, San Francisco. A powerful statement of how foolish we humans are to utilize to the utmost every technology we invent without any discussion of the ethics involved. Describes the negative impacts of television, computers, and GMO technology on what used to be sustainable native cultures living in harmony with nature. [dec jus sim]

Marsh, George Perkins (1864). Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action. Reprinted 1965, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA. The classic original work about adverse human impact on Earth. [con sus]

McHarg, Ian L. (1969, reprinted 1995). Design With Nature. John Wiley, Hoboken NJ. A wonderful, classic, and recently reprinted effort to alter the way American culture builds its living space. Covers such areas as suburban sprawl, cluster housing, and erosion of beachfront property. A very influential book. [hou dec]

McKibben, Bill (2007). Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. Henry Holt, New York. [bio fod jus ecp]

 McKibben, Bill (1998). Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental for Single-child Families. Simon and Schuster. Strong arguments that one-child families benefit the child, the parents, and Earth. Such thinking must become the norm for human population to significantly decrease. [pop]

Meadows, Donella, Dennis Meadows Jorgen Randers, and William Behrens III (1972). The Limits to Growth. Universe Books, New York. Classic and extremely controversial. [sus]

Meadows, Donella, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows (2004). Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. Chelsea Green, White River Jct. VT. Re-analysis 30 years later shows that the original, very controversial, "Limits to Growth" was fundamentally correct - we are still on an overshoot-collapse path. [sus]

Meeker-Lowry, Susan (1988). Economics as if the Earth Really Mattered: A Catalyst Guide to Socially Conscious Investing. New Society Publishers. [sri]

 Melina, Vesanto, Brenda Davis, and Victoria Harrison (1995). Becoming Vegetarian: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Vegetarian Diet. Book Publishing, Summertown TN. This book briefly gives all the reasons for cutting down on meat and then covers all the ways to do it in detail. It doesn't push any particular viewpoint but provides sound, reasonable information. Proper nutrition is the authors' main goal. [fod]

 Merkel, Jim (2003). Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth. New Society, Gabriola Island BC. This book provides detailed tools for living more sustainably by calculating a personal ecological footprint, reducing personal wants, and relating to a bioregion. [clu jus pop sim sri]

Mills, Stephanie (1995). In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Rehabilitating Damaged Land. Beacon Press, Boston. [con]

 Mitchell, Stacy (2006). Big-box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses. Beacon Press, Boston. It's not just Wal-Mart, it's all the chains that are driving locally-owned stores out of business, causing net job loss, reduction of wages, and money outflow from communities. On the positive side are the hundreds of communities that have said NO to the big-box chains; this is their story. [glo pol tur]

 Morgan, Jennifer (2002). Born With a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story. Dawn Publications, Nevada City CA. Book One of the Universe Story for children, from the Big Bang to the formation of Earth. Part story (myth), part facts, and part lovely artwork. My grandchildren like it. [uni]

Morgan, Jennifer (2003). From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth Story. Dawn Publications, Nevada City CA. Book Two of the Universe Story for children, from the beginning of life to the extinction of the dinosaurs. [uni]

Morgan, Jennifer (2006). Mammals Who Morph: The Universe Tells Our Evolution Story. Dawn Publications, Nevada City CA. Book Three of the Universe Story for children, the evolution of mammals and humans. [uni]

Myers, Norman (1993). Ultimate Security:The Environmental Basis of Political Stability. W.W. Norton, New York. In our (hopefully) post-nuclear era, environmental issues such as food, water, deforestation, and rich-poor separation will become the most likely causes of political instability and war. [jus]

Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble (1994). The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places. Beacon Press, Boston MA. Alternating essays by the two authors about separation of urban, rural, and even indigenous children from all kinds of "wild". They describe how schoolbooks and TV have replaced free outdoor activity in the learning process. Wanders off into gender differences, and failed to have the impact of Louv's book eleven years later. [ecp]

Nattrass, Brian and Mary Altomore (2000). The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology, and the Evolutionary Corporation. [sus]

Noss, Reed F., and Allen Y. Cooperrider (1994). Saving Nature's Legacy: Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity. Island Press, Washington DC. [con]

Paddock, William and Paul (1968). Famine, 1975! America's Decision: Who Will Survive. Little , Boston. This book got me started talking about population control. The famine got postponed by massive use of fossil fuel for fertilization, irrigation, and mechanization. [fod]

Pearson, David (1998). The New Natural House Book: Creating a Healthy, Harmonious, and Ecologically Sound Home. Simon and Schuster, Riverside NJ. [hou]

Phillips, Kevin (1994). Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics. Little, Brown, Boston. Compares the current takeover of Washington by megacorporations, lobbyists, and lawyers to the causes of national declines in ancient Rome, Hapsburg Spain, and eighteenth-century Holland. He provides ten proposals for how to reverse the trend. [pol]

Pimentel, David and Marcia (1996). Food, Energy, and Society. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. Apparently also population growth. [fod]

Platt, David D., ed. (1998). Rim of the Gulf: Restoring Estuaries of the Gulf of Maine. Island Institute, Rockland ME. Detailed analyses of the conservation biology of all the Gulf estuaries from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia. [bio]

Primack, Joel R. and Nancy Ellen Abrams (2006). The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos. Riverhead Books, New York. In the logarithmic time scale of the universe we are at the center; in the logarithmic size scale of the universe, we are at the center; in the space of our visible universe we are at the center. The evolutionary story of the universe places Earth and its people at the core of a new creation myth. [uni]

Putnam, Robert (2000). Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Simon and Schuster. [jus]

 Quinn, Daniel (1992). Ishmael. A novel dialogue in which a very intelligent gorilla teaches a slow-learning human about how Earth works. Features the contrast between "Takers" and "Leavers". This book is probably the most readable introduction to ecocentric concepts, and has had a major impact on a great many people. [dec int tur]

Quinn, Bill (2000). How Wal-Mart is Destroying the World. Ten Speed Press. The biggest global mega-corporation seems determined to control everything we buy, and is doing a good job of getting there. On the way it tramples on local communities and businesses, on employees, on government regulations, on workers in poor countries, on its environment, and on anything else that gets in its way. [glo]

Rankin, Aidan (2006). The Jain Path: Ancient Wisdom for the West. O Books, Winchester, UK. The Jain religion of India has incorporated ecocentric thinking for millennia and can teach many lessons. [int spi]

Ruether, Rosemary Radford (2005). Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham MD. [fem]

 Roberts, Elizabeth and Elias Amidon, eds. (1991). Earth Prayers from Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth. Super collection for group openings and church services. [art spi]

Roszak, Theodore, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner, eds.(1995). Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. Sierra Club, San Francisco. Don't get bogged down at the beginning; skip the essays in which you lose interest. Extensively considers what drives consumerism, advertising, and technological solutions to all life's problems. Alan Durning is excellent. [ecp]

Roszak, Theodore (1993). The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology. Simon and Schuster, NY. First use of the term "ecospychology" to describe the relation of human mental health to the natural world. Much broader than the title implies, including ecofeminism, Gaia, deepology, and metaphysics. Difficult for me because of unclear direction and objectives for each chapter. [dec ecp]

Rutherfurd, Edward (2001). The Forest. Ballentine, New York. Fine sense of place novel with bits of ecocentrism here and there. "An oak tree lives in a four-hundred-year time frame. Human time-frames are always too short. So we get it wrong, and we don't really understand the natural processes half the time." [art]

Sanders, Scott Russell (1994). Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World. Beacon Press, Boston. [bio]

Scharper, Stephen Bede (1998). Redeeming the Time: A Political Theology of the Environment. Continuum Press, New York. Summarizes ecotheology, including the Gaia hypothesis, process theology, the New Cosmology, ecofeminism, and liberation theology, but misreads deep ecology as implying humans are "irrelevant". [spi]

Schumacher, E.F. (1973). Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. A leading economist speaks out against the "growth is good" syndrome and about the value of decentralized economies. A classic. [sus]

Schwab, Jim (1994). Deeper Shades of Green: The rise of blue-collar and minority environmentalism in America. Sierra Club. Describes a number of places where less privileged communities have fought against being dumped on by big corporations and government. [bio jus tur]

Seed, John , Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess (1988). Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings. New Society, Gabriola Island BC. Deep ecology rituals, including the famous Council of All Beings. [ecp]

Seidel, Peter (1998). Invisible Walls: Why We Ignore the Damage We Inflict on the Planet and Ourselves. Prometheus Books, Amherst NY. Humans have great difficulty practicing what they preach or doing what they know is right. Going along with the crowd apparently provides survival benefits. [clu dec ecp spi]

 Sessions, George, ed. (1995). Deep Ecology for the Twenty-first Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism. Shambala, Boston. Excellent collection of readings. This book provided my first introduction to my spiritual home. [dec fem]

Shabecoff, Philip (2000). Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century. Island Press, Washington DC. A wake-up call to mainstream environmentalists and their organizations to get more broadly and deeply involved in politics, science, business, and community at all scales. But the book is anthropocentric and misses many aspects of Ecoshift. [con jus]

Snell, Clarke, and Tim Callahan (2005). Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods. Lark Books, Asheville NC. [hou]

Spaid, Sue (2002). Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti, OH. [art]

Speart, Jessica (1999). Bird-brained. Avon Books, New York. U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent Rachel Porter takes on illegal bird importers. There are other Rachel Porter mysteries. [art]

Starhawk (1979). The Spiral Dance: Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess. Harper and Row, San Francisco. [spi]

St. Clair, Jeffrey (2004). Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature. Common Courage Press, Monroe ME. Essays on how the big environmental organizations have been co-opted by corporations and politicians. [con pol]

Stein, Sara (1993). Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards. Houghton Mifflin. [con hou]

Stone, Christopher (1996). Should Trees Have Standing? And Other Essays on Law, Morals and the Environment. Oxford University Press, Dobbs Ferry NY. [dec]

Susskind, Leonard (2006). The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design. Back Bay Books, New York. The origin of the Universe, the Anthropic Principle, and the concept of strings written so a non-scientist can (almost) understand. [uni]

Swimme, Brian, and Thomas Berry (1992). The Universe Story: From The Primordial Flaring Forth To The Ecozoic Era, A Celebration Of The Unfolding Of The Cosmos. Harper San Francisco. The new creation story, including the supernova Tiamat that created the atoms of which we are made. I particularly like the naming of the first living organisms of different kinds, Aries - the first prokaryote, Promethio - the first photosynthetic cell, Prospero - the first cyanobacterium, then Viking, Engla, Kronos, and Sappho. The book gets less interesting when it summarizes human history, then revitalizes again in the final chapter on the Ecozoic Era. [uni]

Tepper, Sheri S. (1997). The Family Tree. Avon Books, New York. Trees, and other things, take over the world in this strange story of surprises and happenings. It's definitely the good ecoguys vs. the bad guys, but you won't find out how until toward the end. [art]

 Wackernagel, Mathis and William Rees (1996). Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. New Society, Gabriola Island BC. A detailed analysis showing that it takes ten acres of land to keep one person (that's YOU) living in North American style. [sus]

Waterman, Guy and Laura (2003). Forest and Crag: A History of Hiking, Trailblazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains. Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston MA. [con]

Wessels, Tom (1997). Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England. Countryman Press, Woodstock VT. An excellent readable lay discussion of forest ecology for central New England. [bio]

Wilkinson, Todd (1998). Science under Siege: The Politicians' War on Nature and Truth. Johnson Books. The muzzling of government scientists in land management agencies. [now]

Wilkinson, Jeanne C. (2001). The Meetings of WEarth: A Story for Our Times. http://www.environmentalfiction.com. [art]

Wilson, Edward O. (1993). The Diversity of Life. W.W. Norton, New York. [uni]

Wood, Douglas (1999). Grandpa's Prayers of the Earth. Candlewick Press, Cambridge MA. Grandfather and grandson take slow walks in the woods. "Each living thing gives its life to the beauty of all life, and that gift is its prayer." [art]