Influential & formative books 1

1854: Walden and Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau, Penguin Classics, 1986, Penguin Books Ltd., London. First published in USA by Ticknor and Fields, 1854 and Civil Disobedience first published in USA 1849

1898: To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform

Ebenezer Howard, The MIT Press, 1965, this edition entitled ‘Garden Cities of To-Morrow’ first published 1902 by Faber and Faber Ltd.

1949: A Sand Country Almanac

Aldo Leopold, Special commemorative edition, 1989, Oxford University Press, Oxford. First published in USA in 1949 by Oxford University Press Inc.

1957: Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

Compiled by Paul Reps, 1978, Penguin Books Limited, London. First published in the USA by The Charles E Tuttle Co. Inc., 1957

1962: Silent Spring

Rachel Carson, 2000, Penguin Classics, London. First published in America by Houghton Mifflin, 1962

1970: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

Shunryu Suzuki, 1982, John Weatherhill Inc., New York. First published in USA by John Weatherhill Inc., 1970

1972 Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Gregory Bateson, first Published 1972, University of Chicago Press Edition 2000

1973: Small is Beautiful

E F Schumacher,1974, Sphere Books Ltd, London. First published in Great Britain by Blond & Briggs 1973

1979: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

James Lovelock, 1995, Oxford University Press, Oxford. First published in United Kingdom in in 1979 by Oxford University Press

1986: Shaker Design

Catalogue to exhibition at the Witney Museum of American Art, 1986, Whitney Museum of American Art

1988: Dream of the Earth

Thomas Berry, Sierra Club Nature and Natural Philosophy Library, 1988

1991: Global Ecology

Colin Tudge, 19891, The Natural History Museum

1991: In the Absence of the Sacred

Jerry Mander, First Published 1991, This paperback edition  published by the Sierra Club, 1992

1991: The Green Reader

Edited by Andrew Dobson, 1994, André Deutch Limited, London. First published in Great Britain by André Deutch Limited, 1991

1992: Nature and Madness

Paul Shepard, 1998, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia Originally published by Sierra Books, 1992. 

1992: The Way, An Ecological World View

Edward Goldsmith, 1996, Themis Books (Green Books Ltd), Totnes Devon. First published in United Kingdom by Random Century Ltd, 1992

1993: Living Richly in an Age of Limits

Bill Deval, 1993, Gibbs Smith, Salt Lake City, Original publication

1995: Deep Ecology for the 21st Century

Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism: Sessions, George, Editor, 1995, Shambhala Publications Inc. Boston, Massachusetts

1996: Our Ecological Footprint, Reducing Human Impact on the Earth

Mathis Wackernagel & William Rees, Illustrated by Phil Testemale, 1998, New Society Publishers, Canada. First published in Canada by New Society Publishers, 1996

1996: The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter

Fritjof Capra, 1997, Flamingo, Harper Collins, London. First published in United Kingdom in 1996 by Harper Collins

1997: Biomimicry, Innovation Inspired by Nature

Janine M Benyus, 2002, Perennial, Harper Collins Inc, New York. First published in USA in 1997 by William Morrow

1999: Natural Capitalism

Paul Hawken, Amoryt B Lovins L Hunter Lovins, 1999, Earthscan. First published in United Kingdom in 1999 by Earthscan

2002: The Art of Natural Building

Joseph F Kennedy, Michael G Smith, Catherine Wanek, 2003 edition, first published by New Society Publishers

2004: Creating the World Future Council

Jakob von Uexkull & Herbert Girardet, 2004, Green Books Limited, Dartington, UK. First published in United Kingdom in 2004 by Green Books Limited

2004: In Praise of Slow

Carl Honore, 2005, Orion Books Ltd., London. First Published in United Kingdom by Orion BooksLtd., 2004

2004: The Earth Care Manual

Patrick Whitfield, 2004, Permanent Publications

2006: An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore, 2006, Boomsbury Publishing Plc, London. First published in the United States in 2006 by Rodale

2006: Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on the Earth as a Sacred Community

Thomas Berry, 2006,Sierra Club Books

2007: Feeding People is Easy

Colin Tudge, 2007, Pari Publishing Sas, Grosseto, Italy

2009: Sustainable Energy- without the hot air

David J C MacKay, 2009, UIT Cambridge Ltd

2009: Prosperity Without Growth

Tim Jackson, 2010, Earthscan, London. First published in United Kingdom in 2009 by Earthscan

2011: Becoming Animal

David Abrams, Becoming Animal, Vintage Books, first published 2011, Vintage Books

2012: Talking Green

Colin Ward, Papers collected from 1972 to 1986 and published posthumously, Five Leaves Publications

2012 The Home Energy Handbook

Allan Shepherd, Paul Allan, Peter Harper, Nicky Ison, Jarra Hicks, 2012, Centre for Alternative Technology

2012: The Environmental Design Pocket Book

Sofie Pelsmakers, 2012, RIBA Publishing

2013: 10 Billion

Stephen Emmott, Penguin Books Ltd, 2013, first published in 2013

2013: The Locust and the Bee

Geof Mulgan, Princeton University Press, 2013

 

2013: Zero Carbon Britain, Rethinking the Future

Paul Allen, Laura Blake, Peter Harper, Alice Hooker-Stroud, Philip James, Tobi Kellner, 2013, Centre for Alternative Technology

2013: Feral

George Monbiot, Penguin Edition 2014, First published by Allan Lane, 2013

2014: Cultivating System Change, A Practitioner’s Companion

Anna Birney, Do Sustainability, 2014

2014: Farmageddon

Philip Lymbery with Isabelk Oakeshott, 2014, Bloomsbury Publishing plc

2014: This Changes Everything

Naomi Klein, 2015, Penguin Books, first published 2014, Simon & Shuster

2015: What Nature Does for Britain

Tony Juniper and Lucy McRobert, 2015, Profile Books

2016: Six Steps Back to the Land

Colin Tudge, 2016, Green Books

2017: The World-Ending Fire: the essential Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry, edited by Paul Kingsnorth, Allen Lane, Penguin Books, 2017

2017: Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist

Kate Raworth, Random House Business Books, 2017

2017: Havergey

John Burnside, Little Toller Books, 2017