Linear - Take, Make, Waste - "Industrial" Economy
Additional readings dealing with extraction, distribution, consumption, indigenous people, global impacts, water, and disposal...and how people are fighting for a just and sustainable world.
Extraction - General Resources
It's All for Sale: The Control of Global Resources
by James Ridgeway (2004)
Forests/Biodiversity Encyclopedia of Rainforests
by Diane Jukofsky,(2001)
Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives
by Vandana Shiva, Patrick Anderson, Heffa Schucking, Andrew Gray, Larry Lohman, David Cooper (1992)
In the Rainforest: Report from a Strange, Beautiful, Imperiled World
by Catherine Caufield (1991)
Extraction - Mining
Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
by Erik Reece (2007)
Blood Diamonds
by Greg Campbell (2004)
Dirty Metals: Mining, Communities and the Environment
by Earthworks and Oxfam, No Forty Gold Campaign (2004)
To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia
by Chad Montrie (2002)
Extraction - Water
Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
by Maude Barlow (2008)
Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke (2003)
Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams
by Patrick McCully (2001)
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit
by Vandana Shiva (2001)
Indigenous People
Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Globalization
by Jerry Mander, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (2006)
Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization
by Ward Churchill (2002)
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
by Winona LaDuke (1999)
Impacts on the Global South/International Impacts
Flat World, Big Gaps: Economic Liberalization, Globalization, Poverty & Inequality
by Jomo K.S. with Jacques Baudot (2007)
Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
by Michael Klare (2002)
Big Business, Poor Peoples: The Impact of Transnational Corporations on the World's Poor
by John Madeley (1999)
Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor
by Tom Athanasiou (1998)
Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization
by Josh Karliner (1997)
Distribution
Big Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
by Stacy Mitchell (2007)
CHEAP? The Real Cost of Living in a Low Price, Low Wage World
by David Bosshart (2006)
Consumption
Consumed : How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
by Benjamin R. Barber (2007)
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
by Richard Louv (2006)
Affluenza
by John Degraaf, David Wann, Thomas Naylor, 2nd edition (2005)
Rethinking Commodification
by Martha Ertman and Joan Williams (2005)
Good Stuff? A Behind-the-Scenes Guide to the Things We Buy
by Worldwatch Institute (2004)
The High Price of Materialism
by Tim Kasser (2003)
Confronting Consumption,
By Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, Ken Cocoa (2002)
Giving Kids the Business: The Commercialization of America's Schools
by Alex Molnar (2001)
The Consumer Society Reader
Edited by Juliet Schor and Douglas Holt (2000)
Your Money Or Your Life
by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin (2000)
The Overspent American: Why We Want What we Don?t Need
by Juliet Schor (1999)
Stuff: The secret lives of everyday things,
by Alan Durning (1997)
How Much is Enough?
By Alan Durning (1992)
Work-watch-spend treadmill
Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
By John De Graaf (2003)
Slowing Down to the Speed of Life
by Richard Carlson and Joseph Bailey (1997)
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
by Juliet Schor (1992)
Planned Obsolescence: Made to Break
by Giles Slade (2006)
The Waste Makers
by Vance Packard (1960)
Born to Buy: A Groundbreaking Expose of a Marketing Culture That Makes Children Believe They Are What They Own
by Juliet Schor (2005)
The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life
by Michael Dawson (2004)
No Logo
by Naomi Klein (2002)
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
by Jerry Mander (1978)
Disposal
Garbageland: On the Secret Trail of Trash
by Elizabeth Royte (2005)
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
by Heather Rogers (2005)
Waste and Want : A Social History of Trash
by Susan Strasser (2000)
Incineration: A Dying Technology
by Neil Tangri (2003)
Learning Not to Burn
by Elizabeth Crowe and Mike Schade (2002)
Hazardous Waste Incineration: Playing with Fire
by Pat Costner and Joe Thornton (1990)
Greenpeace Report on Incineration and Human Health: State of Knowledge of the Impacts of Waste Incinerators on Human Health
by Michelle Allsopp, Pat Costner, and Paul Johnston (2001)
Resources up in Flames: The Economic Pitfalls of Waste Incineration
versus a Zero Waste Approach in the Global South by Brenda Platt (2004)
A Citizen's Guide to Zero Waste,
by Bill Sheehan and Paul Connett (2001)
Wasting and Recycling in the United States 2000
by Brenda Platt and Neil Seldman (2000)
Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How
by Brenda Platt and Kelly Lease (1999)
Recycling
Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development
by Adam Weinberg, David Pellow and Allan Schnaiberg (2000)
Another Way, Taking Action, Solutions
Civil Society/Governance/Democracy
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming
by Paul Hawken (2007)
Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad
by Frances Moore Lappe (2007)
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David Korten (2006)
Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life
by Frances Moore Lappe (2005)
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
by Vandana Shiva (2004)
The People's Business: Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy
by Lee Drutman and Charlie Cray (2004)
Manifesto for Global Democracy: Two Essays on Imperialism and the Struggle for Freedom
by Arjun Makhijani (2004)
