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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)