Recommended Books for Additional Reading

Here's a recommended booklist, starting with sustainable communities and broadening out from there. Please add your own favorites to the resource sharing section. List of great websites coming soon.

Sustainable Communities - Resources

Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources For Citizens and Their Governments, Mark Roseland

Ecocities: Building Cities in Balance With Nature. Richard Register

Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities T. Beatly

Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages & Intentional Communities, Diana Leaf Christian

Ecovillage at Ithaca: Pioneering a Sustainable Culture, Liz Walker

Sustainable Community: Learning From the Cohousing Model, Graham Meltzer

Gaviotas: A Village To Reinvent The World, Alan Weisman

Sustainable Communities and The Challenge Of Environmental Justice, Julian Agyeman

The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems, Gwendolyn Hallsmith

Superbia: 31 ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods, Dan Chiras and Dave Wann

The Community Building Companion: 50 ways to Make Connections & Create Change in Your Own Backyard, Rogers, Frankfort, McKay

Natural Capitalism: Creating Industrial Revolution, Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Lester Brown

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, William McDonough and Michael Braungart

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Janine M. Benyus

Ecological Literacy: Educating our Children for a Sustainable World, Stone, Barlow, Ed.

Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe

Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future, Duane Elgin

Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21^st Century, Alex Steffen

Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, Wackernagel &Rees

Sharing Nature’s Interest: Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability, Nicky Changers, Craig Simons, Mathis Wackernagel

Fostering Sustainable Behaviors: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing, Doug Mckenzie-Mohr, William Smith

Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth Jim Merkel

Getting a Life: Strategies For Simple Living Based on Your Money or Your Life Jacqueline Blix and David Heitmiler

Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things, John C. Ryan and Alan Thein Durning

The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter, Brown, Isaacs, Et Al.

Turning To One Another: Simple Conversations To Restore Hope to the Future, Margaret Wheatley

Finding our way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time, Margaret Wheatley

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn

Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves & the World Through Mindfulness , Jon Kabat-Zinn

Coming Back To Life: Practices To Reconnect Our Lives, Our World, Joanna Macy

Nonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships and Your World in Harmony With Your Values, Marshall Rosenberg

Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, Roszak, Gomes, Kanner