PERMACULTURE

Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, David Holmgren.
Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, Toby Hemenway, 2009 (second edition)
An Introduction to Permaculture, Bill Mollison
Permaculture Designer’s Manual, Bill Mollison [the “Bible” for anyone doing serious PC work]
Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide, 1999. Skott Kellogg and Stacey Pettigrew
Food Not Lawns, Flores, H.C. 2006
The Transition Handbook, Rob Hopkins

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PLANTS/SOIL

Edible Forest Gardens, Dave Jacke
How to Grow More Food . . ., John Jeavons
The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible, 2000. Edward C Smith
[video] Synergistic Gardening, Emelia Hazelip [“no-inputs”, transformational gardening – my guru!]
Mycelium Running, Paul Stamets
The Humanure Handbook, Joe Jenkins
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. 2007, Barbara Kingsolver.

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ANTHROPOLOGY/CULTURE

The Chalice and the Blade, Riane Eisler.
A Green History of the Earth, Clive Ponting
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
The Fifth Sacred Thing, Starhawk
earthaven.org
ic.org  [about intentional communities]

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PEAK OIL

The Party’s Over, and other titles, Richard Heinberg
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil [video]