GREEN
WARRIOR READING LIST
“Writers
are at their best as terrorists- Sometimes social terrorists, sometimes political,
sometimes terrorists of the heart. If a writer is good, he will be all three
at once. His weapons are words well used to disturb and to clarify thought,
emotion and action. “
-John
Ralston Saul
The GreenWarrior reading list is a collection of Great Books whose whole purpose
is to inspire change among its readers. Some of the books are great because
of the power of the prose, some for the information and connections presented,
others simply for the power of their ideas. The list is by no means comprehensive,
nor is it complete, indeed it is living document that I hope will be continually
expanded for years to come.
WESTERN
CULTURE back to top
Ashphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over the Nation and How We Can Take
It Back
Jane Holtz Kay, University of California Press 1998
A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb
Philip Langdon, University of Massachusetts Press 1997
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Robert Putnam, Simon & Schuster 2000
Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape
James Howard Kunstler, Touchstone Books 1994
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century
James Howard Kunstler, Touchstone Books 1998
My Ishmael
Daniel Quinn, Bantam Books 1998
The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, community, and the American Dream
Peter Calthorpe, New York: Princeton Architectural Press 1993
The Story of B
Daniel Quinn, Bantam Books 1997
The Unconcious Civilization
John Ralston Saul, Free Press 1997
The Unsettling of America
Wendell Berry, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977.
Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
John Ralston Saul, Vintage Books 1993
What Are People For?
Wendell Berry, North Point Press 1990
THE
ENVIRONMENT AND THE STATE OF THE WORLD back
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Becoming Native to this Place
Wes Jackson, Counterpoint Press 1996
Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness
and the Future of Life on Earth
John Robbins, H.J. Kramer 1987
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
James Lovelock, Oxford University Press, 2000
The Garden of Unearthly Delights: Bioengineering and the Future of Food
Robin Mather, Plume 1996
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering our Place in Nature
David Suzuki, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books 1998
A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold, Ballantine Books 1991
State of the World 1999-2001
Lester Brown, Christopher Flavin, Hilary French et al. New York: W.W.
Norton World Watch Institute 2001
State of the World
Lester Pearson et al
Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things
John C. Ryan and Alan Thein Durning, Northwest Environment Watch 1997
Vital Signs 1999
Lester Brown et al, WorldWatch Institute, New York: W.W. Norton 1999
ECONOMY,
TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT back
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Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
Vandana Shiva, South End Press 1997
The Cult of Impotence: Selling the Myth of Powerlessness in the Global Economy
(out of print)
Linda McQuaig
Downsize This!
Michael Moore, Harperperennial Library 1997
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
Paul Hawken, New York: HarperBusiness 1993
Home Economics: Fourteen Essays
Wendell Berry, North Point Press 1987
The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism
David C. Korten, Berrett-Koehler Pub 2000
Sex Economy Freedom and Community: Eight Essays
Wendell Berry, Pantheon Books 1994
Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later…With
Commentaries
E.F. Schumacher, Hartley & Marks 1999
When Corporations rule the World: SECOND EDITION
David C. Korten, Kumarian Press 2001SOCIAL INEQUITY AND GOVERNMENT
Defending the Left: An Individual’s Guide to Fighting for Social Justice,
Individual Rights, and the Environment
David E. Driver, Noble Press 1992
The Essential Trudeau
Pierre Elliott Trudeau, McClelland & Stewart 1999
The Greening of Conservative America
John R. E. Bliese, Westview Press 2001
Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews With David Barsamian
Noam Chomsky, Common Courage 1994
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order
Noam Chomsky, Seven Stories Press 1998
The Prosperous Few & the Restless Many
Noam Chomsky, Odonian Press 1993
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Noam Chomsky, Odonian Press 1992
HUMAN
NATURE AND PHILOSOPHY back
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Biophilia
Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University Pr 1986
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Edward O. Wilson, Random House 1999
The Healing Earth: Nature’s Medicine for the Troubled Soul
Phillip Sutton Chard, Northword Press 1999
The Magic of Conflict
Thomas F. Crum, Touchstone Press 1987
The One Minute Manager
Spencer Johnson, Berkeley Publishing Group 1993
The Tao of Pooh
Benjamin Hoff, Viking Press 1983
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu, Harpercollins 1999
The Te of Piglet
Benjamin Hoff, Penguin USA 1993
Your Money Or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving
Financial Independence
Joe Dominguez, Penguin USA 1999
DESIGNING
A NEW FUTURE back to
top
Biomimicry, Innovation Inspired by Nature
Janine M. Benyus, New York: William Morrow and Co. 1997
Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by
cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Joseph J. Romm, Washington, D.C.: Island Press 1999
Ecological Design
Sim Van Der Ryn and Stuart Cohen, Washington D.C: Island Press 1996
Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use
Ernst Von Weizsacker, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, London: Earthscan
Publications Ltd 1997
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Boston: Little, Brown
and Company 1999
The Sand Dollar and the Slide Rule -Drawing Blueprints from Nature
Delta Willis, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley
Publishing Company, Inc.1997
GREEN
DESIGN RESOURCES back
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Cold Climates
Joseph Lstiburek, The Taunton Press 2000
Climatic Building Design: Energy Efficient
Building Principles and Practices
Donald Watson and Kenneth Labs, McGraw Hill
1993
Deep Design: Pathways To A Liveable Future
David Wann, Island Press 1996
Design With Nature
Ian L. McHarg, John Wiley & Sons 1995
Environmental Building News Magazine
Building Green, Inc.
Environmental Resource Guide CD ROM
Green Building Advisor Software
Environmental Building News
Green Development: integrating Ecology and
Real Estate
Rocky Mountain Institute, John Wiley & Sons,
Inc. 1998
Green Development CD ROM Green Spec
Environmental building News, Brattleboro, Vermont: E Build Inc. 1999
Greening the Building and the Bottom Line: Increasing Productivity Through
Energy-Efficient Design
William D. Browning and Joseph J. Romm, Rocky Mountain
Institute 1994
The HOK Guidebook To Sustainable Design
Sandra F. Mendler and William Odell, New York City:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000
LEED Reference Guide & Technical Manual
US Green Building Council 2000
Mechanical & Electrical Equipment for Buildings
Benjamin Stein and John S.Reynolds, New York: John
Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000
Mixed Climates
Joseph Lstiburek, The Taunton Press 2000
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher Alexander, Oxford University Press 1977
Photovoltaics in the Built Environment
Solar Design Associates et al, US DOE 1997
Sun Wind & Light
G.Z. Brown and Mark DeKay, New York City: John Wiley
& Sons, Inc. 2001
Sustainable Building Technical Manual
Public Technology, Inc
A Primer on Sustainable Building
Dianna Lopez Barnett and Bill Browning, Rocky Mountain
Institute 1998
Tips For Daylighting
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory