Books

A 1949 non-fiction book by American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist Aldo Leopold. This collection of essays advocate Leopold's idea of a "land ethic", or a responsible relationship existing between people and the land they inhabit. This book is considered a landmark in the American conserv...

Properly understood, the climate crisis is an unparalleled opportunity to finally and effectively address many persistent causes of suffering and misery that have long been neglected, and to transform the prospects of future generations, giving them a chance to live healthier, more prosperous lives ...

Radical Ecopsychology offers an original introduction to ecopsychology—an emerging field that ties the human mind to the natural world. In order for ecopsychology to be a force for social change, Fisher insists it must become a critical undertaking. Drawing masterfully from humanistic psychology, he...

Berry frames the ecological crisis as a crisis of spiritual vision. Applying cultural history, science, and comparative religions, he forges a compelling narrative of creation and communion that reconciles modern evolutionary thinking and traditional religious insights concerning our integral role i...

Shepard creates a developmental model for understanding the role of sustained contact with nature in healthy human psychological development, positing that humans, having spent 99% of their social history in hunting and gathering environments, are therefore evolutionarily dependent on nature for pro...

These essays originate in the conviction that the ecological crisis represents, in large measure, a failure of education. They deal with the question of what the limits of earth have to do with the content and process of education and with the way knowledge is defined. Subsequently, they are based o...

By separating us from the wild, civilization has cut us off from the energy of the universe. Since energy is power, separating humans from nature makes them powerless. Civilization's destruction of nature, therefore, is fundamentally a question of power. We need deep power, namely the balancing of p...

Westerners’ ways of knowing the world, contribute to alienating beliefs and practices that fail to be personally fulfilling or ecologically sustainable. Education could be means to foreground the sacred character of human-earth relations. This explores human knowing as a bridge toward human being, t...

Gore describes how human actions and decisions can endanger or safeguard the vulnerable ecosystem that sustains us. Earth in the Balance probes the roots of the environmental crisis and offers a bold and forceful vision of a new, more sustainable path.

Volk describes the global carbon cycle and the disturbances human activity produces in the carbon cycle.

Through her personal narrative, Peterson tells stories about her relationship with water and nature. It is elegantly written.

As the subtitle suggests: economics as if people mattered. The benefits of human-scaled community.

This intellectual tour de force returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception.

For too long we’ve ignored the wild intelligence of our bodies, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. Abram’s writing subverts this distance, drawing readers ever closer to their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship bet...

CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO, CHANGE THE FACE OF ACTIVISM, AND CONFRONT CLIMATE CHANGE HEAD ON WITH THE ULTIMATE BLUEPRINT FOR TAKING ACTION.

Includes the 8 Principles of Un-civilization.

You're beginning to find that there is much more to the world than we have been taught. ... A complexity of perceptual feeling arises from attuning to the wildness of the world, and the feelings that you receive back possess dynamics that are more complex than the human world or its elements. ... Wh...

For Weber, ecology is a science of the heart, a web of mutual transformations and deeply meaningful encounters that are always embodied. The power of the erotic suffuses the biosphere with life and with the stamina to strive for fruition, fulfillment and joy. All being is reciprocity and reflection,...

Quite readable and an ecological tour de force. A perspective transformation.

To challenge effectively our earth-abusing societies, we must be willing to grieve what already has been lost and what will be lost.

Seminal work in ecology/environment.

A bold exploration of the reintegration of rationality and intuition, science and soul, to foster individual and planetary healing. Examines how integrating important alchemical images with Gaian science can offer insights into our interconnectedness with Gaia.

Some of my favorite eco-books. I will add to this list from time to time.

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03.10 | 16:18

Cool

03.09 | 12:44

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03.09 | 12:23

Who is Dr Julie Eco Ethics? There is no contact information on this website and I need to contact you about content on the site.

15.10 | 14:56

Lovely poems - would like to see more of them!