Climate Change
Berners-Lee- The Burning Question
Paul Hawken- Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Naomi Klein- This Changes Everything, On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
George Monbiot:
-How did we get into this Mess?
-Don't Even Think About It
-Feral
Charles Eisenstein- Climate: A New Story
Deep-Ecology, Indigenous Wisdom, Contemporary Animism
Joanna Macy:
-Active Hope
-Coming back to Life
-Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory
-World as Lover: World as Self
Bill Devall- Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered
Braiding Sweetgrass- Robin Wall Kimmerer
David Loy- EcoDharma
Arne Naess- Ecology of Wisdom
Bill Plotkin:
-Soulcraft
-Nature and the Human Soul
-Wild Mind
- The Journey of Soul Initiation
George Sessions- Deep Ecology for the 21st Century
John Seed- Thinking like a Mountain: Towards a Council of all Beings
David Abram- Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
Food, agriculture and land-use
Rachel Carson- Silent Spring
Pamela Mason- Sustainable Diets
Herve-Gruyer- Miraculous Abundance
Masanobu Fukuoka- The One-Straw Revolution
Gabe Brown (ted talk and books)
Inspiration and Transformational Change
Rob Greenfield- https://www.robgreenfield.org/
Aldo Leopold- The Sand County Almanac (and all his work…)
Charles Eisenstein- The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible
Theodore Roszak- Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth/Healing the Mind
Henry David-Thoreau- Walden
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman- Yvon Chouinard
Gary Snyder (all of his work…)
Rutger Bregman- Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There
Johann Hari- Lost Connections
Peck, M. Scott- The Road Less Travelled
Fischer, Louis- The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
John Lane (a series of beautiful books to inspire simple living)
Pickett and Wilkinson- The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
Foraging
Wild Food UK- Foraging Pocket Book
Roger Philips- Mushrooms
Richard Mabey- Food for Free
Politics and Economics
Mark Boyle:
- http://www.moneylessmanifesto.org/
- Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi
-The Moneyless Manifesto
-The Way Home
Charles Eisenstein- Sacred Economics
Andrew Dobson- Green Political Thought
Monbiot- Out of the Wreckage
Kate Raworth- Doughnut Economics
F. Schumacher- Small is Beautiful
Noam Chomsky (all of his work…)
Bushcraft
Ray Mears- Essential Bushcraft
Dave Canterbury-
-Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival
-Advanced Bushcraft: An Expert Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival
Tristan Gooley (Books on natural navigation)
Meditation and Spirituality
Thich Nhat Hanh (many wonderful books and talks on meditation, compassion and love)
Herman Hesse- Siddhartha
Lao Tzu- Tao Te Ching
Daniel Quinn- Ishmael
Jack Kornfield:
-The Path with Heart
-The Wise Heart
-After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
Alan Watts (loads of amazing books and talks available, mostly on Contemporary Zen Buddhism)
Joanna Macy (all of her work on spiritual activism and active hope)
The DhammaPada
Gibran, Kahlil- The Prophet
Suzuki, Shunryu- Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
The Mountains and Water Sutra- Shohaku Okumura
Osho (loads of books and talks available)
The Bhagavad Gita
Bodhi, Bhikkhu- In the Buddha’s Words
General
Extinction Rebellion (their website has loads of resources available)
Carbon Calculator- https://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx
Joe Rogan Podcast (many amazing conversations to choose from)
A selection of some resources I recommend for information and inspiration...