Last modified: March 1, 2004
|
|
Subject: Ecology Last modified: March 1, 2004 |
Andruss, Plant, Plant & Wright (eds)
Home! A Bioregional Reader
NSP 192pp ISBN: 0-86571-188-7 $19.95
Large format. "An exciting vision and strategy for creating ecologically sustainable communities and cultures in harmony with the limits and regenerative powers of the Earth." A good introduction to the theory and practice of Bioregionalism.
Bernard, Ted & Young, Jora
The Ecology of Hope: Communities Collaborate for Sustainability
NSP 240pp ISBN: 0-86571-355-3 $19.95
Exploration of collaboration between different interest groups that leads to conscensus on plans for achieving sustainability.
Biehl & Bookchin
The Politics of Social Ecology. Libertarian Municipalism
Black Rose 204pp ISBN: 1-551641-00-3 $25.50
Presents an introductory overview and sketches the historical and philosophical context of social ecology. Provides substantial material on the practical question of creating and organising a new municipal movement toward organising democratic cities. Includes a lengthy interview with Murray Bookchin on Libertarian Municipalism.
Biehl, Janet & Staudenmaier, Peter
Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience
AK Press 73pp ISBN: 1-873176-73-2 $10.50
In order to preserve the liberatory aspects of ecology, the authors, as social ecologists, explore the German experience of fascism and derive from it historical lessons about the political use of ecology. Including two essays-?Fascist Ideology: The Green Wing of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents? and ?Ecology and the Modernization of Fascism in the German Ultra-Right,? Ecofascism examines aspects of German fascism, past and present, in order to draw essential lessons from them for ecology movements both in Germany and elsewhere.
Bookchin, Murray
Ecology Of Freedom: The Emergence & Dissolution Of Hierarchy
Black Rose 395pp ISBN: 0-921689-72-1 $26.20
A powerful philosophical analysis of Hierarchy. Engages the reader in the historical development of hierarchy, and asks strategic questions rather then handing neat solutions on a plate to the reader. Well worth reading for its philosophic and historic insight.
Bookchin, Murray
From Urbanization to Cities. Towards a New Politics of Citizenship
Cassell 288pp ISBN: 0-304-32842-1 $32.50
Bookchin, Murray
Modern Crisis
Black Rose 194pp ISBN: 0-920057-62-4 $24.70
Murray Bookchin exposes the underpinnings of consumerism and contrasts the destructive reality of a market economy with the potential for social and ecological sanity offered by a moral economy. A useful introduction to the ideas of this important social theorist.
Bookchin, Murray
Philosophy Of Social Ecology: Essays On Dialectical Naturalism
Black Rose 184pp ISBN: 1-551640-18-X $26.20
A primer to the philosophy of Social Ecology through a series of essays on contemporary debates in the environmental movement.
Bookchin, Murray
Toward An Ecological Society
Black Rose 320pp ISBN: 0-919618-98-7 $25.50
A collection of essays from a major modern post-Marxist and Anarchist, who was a founder of the Institute of Social Ecology. It presents a series of ideas in terms of organisation, and on the relationships between people placed in the context of the relationships between people and nature.
Bookchin, Murray
Which Way for the Ecology Movement
AK Press 75pp ISBN: 1-873176-26-0 $9.00
In the essays that make up this book, Murray Bookchin calls for a critical social standpoint that transcends both ?biocentrism? and ?ecocentrism?. A call for new politics and ethics of complementarity, in which people, fighting for a free, nonhierarchical, and cooperative society, begin to play a creative role in natural evolution. Bookchin attacks the misanthropic notion that the environmental crisis is caused mainly by overpopulation or humanity?s genetic makeup. He resolutely points to a social cause-patriarchy, racism, and a capitalistic ?grow or die? economy, as some of the problems the environmental movement must deal with. These ideas have to be confronted by environmentally concerned readers if the ecology movement is not to destroy its own potential as a force for social change and the achievement of a truly ecological society. Murray Bookchin?s writings have profoundly influenced ecological thinking over the last forty years. Now in his seventies, he has been a life long radical, a trade union activist in the 30?s and 40?, an innovative theorist in the 60?s and a leading participant in the antinuclear and radical wing of the Greens in the 70?s and 80?s. His ideas on social ecology have been important contributions to left libertarian thinking.
Bookchin, Murray et al
Deep Ecology & Anarchism: A Polemic
Freedom 80pp ISBN: 0-900384-67-0 $10.40
Critical discussion on the philosophies of Deep Ecology by Murray Bookchin, Graham Purchase, Brian Morris and Rodney Aitchey. Also an essay detailing the history of the apple in which the author, Chris Wilbert, demonstrates how production for profit has dealt a mortal blow to the once succulent apple: from 3000 varieties at one time to today's international, tasteless Golden Delicious!
Bradford, George
How Deep is Deep Ecology?
Times Change 86pp ISBN: 0-87810-035-0 $7.20
A closely argued essay on the problems and inconsistencies within Deep Ecology, by a contributor to the Detroit anarchist newspaper, Fifth Estate.
Brower, David with Chapple, Steve
Let The Mountains Talk, Let The Rivers Run: A Call to Those Who Would Save the Earth
NSP 208pp ISBN: 0-86571-411-8 $17.95
David Brower has been credited with galvanizing an entire generation of environmentalists in the 60's. This book provides an autobiography and offers an inspired strategy guide for the future generations. From the politics of preserving the environment and how to use New York-style PR to save tigers and dolphins, to reengineering cities, the future of hypercars, and his vision for the Earth Corps, Brower takes us on a sweeping journey of what has been and what could be if we apply CPR (Conservation, Preservation, Restoration) to our wounded world. Printed on entirely tree-free kenaf paper.
Carlsson, Chris (ed.)
Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration
AK Press 256pp ISBN: 1 902593 59 6 $28.40
This leaderless, grassroots social movement cuts through the noise and inertia of car-clogged urban transportation and teaches us to carve a wedge of our city for our dreams. So says essayist Anna Sojourner in this pushy and irreverent collection of inkworthy social critique and optimistic celebration. Four dozen contributors document, define and drive home the beauty of a quiet ride with a thousand friends, the anarchy of grassroots inspiration, the melodrama of media coverage and the fight for the survival of our cities.
Dauncey, Guy
Stormy Weather. 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change
NSP 256pp ISBN: 0-86571-421-5 $27.95
Proven solutions to global warming for ordinary citizens, communities, businesses, power utilities, governments, and national leaders. User-friendly solutions ranging from energy efficiency and organic farming, to transitioning from fossil fuels to solar, wind, and tidal energy.
Drengson, Alan & Taylor, Duncan (eds)
Ecoforestry: The Art & Science of Sustainable Forest Use
NSP 320pp ISBN: 0-86571-365-0 $29.95
An alternative to the current unsustainable forestry practices is presented.
Frankel, Carl
In Earth's Company: Business, Environment, and the Challenge of Sustainability
NSP 240pp ISBN: 0-86571-380-4 $19.95
Frankel describes the history and meaning of the term 'sustainable development' as the effective balancing of economic growth, environmental protection, and social equity, and outlines key contributors to the concept - such as the Green consumer movement, the Brundtland Report, and the Earth Summit. Frankel calls for greater emphasis on collaboration, process and quality in all dimensions of business practice, as well as a 'new humanism' requiring corporations to be more sensitive to the full range of human concerns and to include social equity into the calculation of the 'bottom line.'
Gibbs, Lois
Love Canal: The Story Continues...
NSP 240pp ISBN: 0-86571-382-0 $19.95
In 1978, Love Canal first hit the headlines as an entire community struggled with the fact that they were living on top of a toxic waste dump. Within weeks, a grassroots movement forced national decision-makers to pay heed, and the community was evacuated. Love Canal entered modern mythology as one of the most notorious environmental scandals in the world. Yet, 20 years later, homes at Love Canal have been resold, and some 50,000 similar sites remain...
Hofrichter, Richard (ed)
Toxic Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice
NSP 272pp ISBN: 0-86571-270-0 $19.95
Toxic Struggles documents the fast-growing environmental justice movement led by the very people 'the rural poor and city slum and barrio dwellers' who suffer most from corporate pollution and government neglect. Tired of the no-win choice between "jobs or the environment," suspicious of corporate promises and mainstream pleas to be "reasonable," thousands of grassroots groups are taking on and winning victories against the biggest companies in the world.'
Kchli, Christian
Forests of Hope: Stories of Regeneration
NSP 256pp ISBN: 0-86571-378-2 $39.95
Filled with breath-taking, high quality photographs, Forests of Hope: Stories of Regeneration takes the reader on a captivating journey as author-forester- photographer Christian Kchli seeks out tales of hope for the world's forests in twelve different countries. If forests are indeed the "roof of the world" as the Chipko people of the Himalayas maintain, then their global destruction is of great concern for us all. But there are reasons for optimism. While Forests of Hope clearly documents the many reasons for forest degradation, the author goes on to tell the amazing stories of communities which have practiced successful forest conservation and reforestation, thereby preserving the basis for their survival.
Kropotkin, Peter
Evolution & Environment Vol #11
Black Rose 262pp ISBN: 0-921689-44-1 $16.20
Kropotkin the geographer had a social and political concern that transformed his interest in science into a larger ecological concern that outstripped the understanding of his contemporaries. He upheld the instinct of individuals to support one another, and acknowledged environmental influences on mutation and evolution. Wheras arguments at the time based all change on the drive for survival, Kropotkin's insight - now acknowledged by ecologists - insisted on the selective pressure of the environment and the importance of habitat. The book is divided into two sections: "Modern Science and Anarchism" and "Thoughts on Evolution".
Piggott, Hugh
Windpower Workshop
NSP 160pp ISBN: $19.95
As the financial and environmental costs of fossil fuels continue to rise, the ancient art of windpower is making a steady comeback, and many countries are promoting wind energy generation as part of a drive toward a sustainable future. Yet many environmental enthusiasts prefer a more do-it-yourself approach. Windpower Workshop provides all the essential information for people wanting to build and maintain a windpower system for their own energy needs.
Plant & Plant (Eds)
Green Business: Hope or Hoax? Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
NSP 144pp ISBN: 0-86571-196-8 $11.95
Green Business analyzes and critiques the fetish of "Green" consumerism and superficial solutions to the planetary crisis, and then asks what are the limits and possibilities of using business as a tool for restoring the Earth. More than a half dozen authentic and hopeful case studies serve to identify the characteristics of "deep" Green, independent, community-based, bioregional alternatives where the health of people and place take precedence over private property.'
Plant & Plant (eds)
Turtle Talk: Voices for a Sustainable Future (New Catalyst 1)
NSP 144pp ISBN: 0-86571-186-0 $11.95
Volume 1 in the New Catalyst Bioregional series. Interviews with a diverse range of activists working for an ecologically sustainable future. Contributors include John Seed, Murray Bookchin, Starhawk, Dave Foreman, Susan Griffin and Gary Snyder.
Plant, Judith (ed)
Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism
NSP 276pp ISBN: 0-86571-153-4 $17.95
Twenty-five activist authors including Ursula LeGuin, Susan Griffin, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Ynestra King, Vandana Shiva, Margot Adler and Joanna Macy strive to unite the visions and energies of the feminist and ecological perspectives into a powerful balm for healing the world and all its inhabitants. Healing the Wounds challenges and enables us to begin to draw together the personal, political and spiritual into one enlivening whole.
Reclus, Elisee
Man and Nature
JURA 34pp ISBN: 0-908437-03-X $1.40
Elisee Reclus was a nineteenth century French geographer and anarchist. Here are two of his essays for the first time translated into English. 1. 'The Impact of Human Activity on Physical Geography' and 2. 'Concerning the Awareness of Nature on Modern Society'.
Roseland, Mark (ed)
Eco-City Dimensions: Healthy Communities, Healthy Planet
NSP 224pp ISBN: 0-86571-353-7 $19.95
Eco-City Dimensions demonstrates that movement is definitely under way toward implementing the vision of eco-cities, and that citizen organizations and municipal officials around the world are initiating creative solutions to harsh social and environmental challenges. Eco-City Dimensions honors the crucial role that cities play in planetary health, while presenting a variety of inspiring proposals for improving communities to meet the challenge of sustainability.
Sale, Kirkpatrick
Dwellers In the Land: The Bioregional Vision
NSP 238pp ISBN: 0-86571-225-5 $15.95
The classic introduction to the bioregional vision, Dwellers in the Land offers a compelling description of a world divided not by political boundaries but by geographic, ecological and cultural ones. Neither bucolic nor utopian, bioregionalism rests on the practical task of rediscovering the places in which we live, the possibilities they hold, and the most appropriate ways to fit in. Bioregionalism and Dwellers in the Land is about creating human-scale, ecologically sound, community-oriented and renewable economies and cultures.
Seed, John et al
Thinking Like a Mountain: Toward a Council of All Beings
NSP 128pp ISBN: 0-86571-133-X $14.95
This book of readings, meditations, rituals and workshop notes prepared on three continents helps us remember that environmental defense is nothing less than "Self" defense. Including magnificent illustrations of Australia's rainforests, Thinking Like a Mountain provides a context for ritual identification with the natural environment, inviting us to begin a process of "community therapy" in defense of Mother Earth. It helps us experience our place in the web of life, rather than on the apex of some human-centred pyramid.
Shiva, Vandana
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature & Knowledge
South End Press 148pp ISBN: 0-89608-555-4 $16.90
A scathing attack on the use of patents and genetic engineering - the colonization of cultural and biological diversity. A powerful statement against a new form of colonization.
Tokar, Brian
The Green Alternative: Creating an Ecological Future
NSP 192pp ISBN: 0-86571-318-9 $18.95
The Green Alternative applies a wholistic ecological perspective to the spectrum of social and economic issues, including environmental issues, organic gardening, appropriate scale, social justice, feminism, anti-racism, anti-militarism, anti-poverty, participatory democracy, cultural change, and movement-building. Its clear analysis and succint history will help activists of all stripes deepen their understanding of the interconnections between issues and refine their strategies for co-creating a more just, compassionate and sustainable society.'
Wackernagel, M. & Rees, W.
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth(New Catalyst 8)
NSP 176pp ISBN: 0-86571-312-X $17.95
Number 9 in The New Catalyst's Bioregional Series. Our Ecological Footprint presents, for the first time, this powerful and accessible tool for measuring and visualizing the resources required to sustain our households, communities, regions and nations. An excellent handbook for community activists, planners, teachers, students and policy makers interested in calculating, presenting and monitoring the actual carrying capacity of a house, municipality or region. Our Ecological Footprint is an important and effective new tool for making communities truly sustainable.
|
|
