The Tipping
Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm
Gladwell. Outlines the process of social change, whereby a small
number of people behaving differently can create a "tipping point"
for broader change in ideas and behavior and dissemination of messages
and products. The three types that create the tipping point are those
with skills to bring people together, pass along knowledge; and persuade.
Circle
Principles and Methods
Coming
Back to Life: Practices that Connect Our Lives, Our World, Joanna
Macy and Molly Young Brown. New, expanded edition of pioneering
work by noted spiritual and environmental thinker Joanna Macy that points
the way out of apathy through spiritual breakthrough and social action
to address the overwhelming ecological destruction of our planet. A
primary resource and practical guide with easy-to-use methods for doing
the "the work that reconnects" with groups to profoundly affect
peoples' outlook and ability to act in the world.
Blessed
Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why
No One Saw It Coming, Paul Hawken. Describes the worldwide environmental
and social justice movement of nonprofits and community organizations
collectively geared toward humanity's betterment to address degraded
quality of life worldwide, large scale feelings of fear, resentment
and powerlessness, and extinction of species, languages and cultures
engendered by globalization.
The Earth
Path, Starhawk. Addresses the profound spiritual and conceptual
disconnect at the root of our environmental destructiveness, and shows
how we can reroot our spirits, our politics, and our day-to-day life
in deep relationship with the Earth.
Urgent
Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World, Jean Shinoda
Bolen. A call for the women's peace and environmental movement to
end conflict and violence in the world.
New
Sustainability Paradigm
Deep Economy:
The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Bill McKibben.
Challenges the prevailing wisdom that the goal of economies should be
unlimited growth. Lays out a new economic paradigm of replacing accelerated
cycles of economic expansion-a mindset that has brought the world to
the brink of environmental disaster-in favor of creating localized economies,
e.g., community-scale power systems instead of huge centralized power
plants; cohousing communities instead of sprawling suburbs.
The Fifth
Sacred Thing, Starhawk. Futuristic novel illustrating social,
technological, and spiritual components of a sustainable society.
The Starfish
and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organization,
Ori Brajman and Rod Beckstrom. How decentralization is changing
many organizations, and the role of decentralized networking in promoting
peace and economic development.
Simplicity
Your Money
Or Your Life, Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin, Seminal book of
the voluntary simplicity movement. A resource for reordering material
priorities and live well for less to attain wholeness of livelihood
and lifestyle and save the planet while saving money.
Simple
Living with Kids/Alternative Family Values
Just Family
Nights, Susan Vogt, editor. Activities and lesson plans for
family learning and values of
Living
Simply with Children, Marie Sherlock.
What Kids
Really Want That Money Can't Buy, Betsy Taylor - Center for a New
American Dream.
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