Books
Permaculture
- Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
by David Holmgren
- The One-Straw Revolution
by Masanobu Fukuoka
- The Natural Way of Farming
by Masanobu Fukuoka
- A Pattern Language
by Christopher Alexander
- Designing with Nature
by Ian McHarg
Natural Building
- The Hand Sculpted House
by Ianto Evans, Michael Smith & Linda Smiley
- Building with Arches, Vaults and Domes: Summary of lectures of training course
by Auroville Building Centre Earth Unit
- The Natural Plaster Book
by Daniel Chiras & Cedar Rose
- The Art of Natural Building: Design, Construction and Resources
by Joseph F Kennedy, Michael G Smith & Catherine Wamek
- New Society Publishers publishes a range books about natural building
Ecological Thinking & Alternative Politics
- The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order
by George Monbiot
- Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society
by Sulak Sivaraksa
- Stolen Harvest
by Vandana Shiva
(N.B. all books by Vandana Shiva are highly recommended)
- Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
by Alan Weisman
- The Fifth Sacred Thing
by Starhawk
- Small is Beautiful
by E.F. Schumacher
- Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Miscellaneous
- Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
by William Bryant Logan
- A Silent Language
by Edward D. Hall
- The Hidden Dimension
by Edward D. Hall
Magazines & Journals
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