The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
by Thom Hartmann
In this passionate yet thoroughly researched book, the
author proposes that the only lasting solution to the crises
we face is to relearn the lessons of our ancient ancestors,
who lived sustainably for thousands of generations. Thom Hartmann's comprehensive book has become one of the fundamental handbooks of the environmental activist movement.
Powerdown
by Richard Heinberg
Powerdown is a strategy that will require tremendous effort and economic sacrifice to reduce resource usage in wealthy countries, develop alternative energy sources, distribute resources more equitably, and reduce the human population humanely but systematically over time. Avoiding cynicism and despair, it outlines four options for industrial societies during the next decades.
Our Ecological Footprint
by Williams E. Rees, Mathis Wackernagel
If the all of the earth's human inhabitants were to live at the standard of the United States, we would require several planet Earths to support us. Our Ecological Footprint provides a graphically compelling and quantitatively rigorous way for us to determine the consequences of our behavior, and find proposed solutions.
The Exception to the Rulers
by Amy Goodman, David Goodman
Journalist and radio host Goodman brings her hard-hitting, no-holds-barred brand of reporting to an array of human rights, government accountability and media responsibility issues, and the result is bracing and timely. She is fierce and tireless in her commitment to dig behind official versions of the facts to get to very different stories.
