Earth Day 2008: The “Power to Change” Dynamic Dozen Book List
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond [This well researched and very readable cultural history explores the common threads of societies worldwide that have failed. I often find myself thinking about this book when making personal choices in my daily life.]
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell [This is a must read for those of us interested in how we are influenced by our society as well as those of us interested in influencing the direction of change. Read this book and pass it on!!]
- Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins
- The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by David C Korten
- The Re-Enchantment of Art by Suzi Gablik
- Steve & Me by Terri Irwin [It is a "light" read about Steve & Terri and their passion for saving animals.]
- Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach [I was shocked at how the political climate depicted is so similar to what we are experiencing now. Wasn't this book published in 1975? SCARY!]
- Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach [The prequel to Ecotopia published four years after Ecotopia. Even more insight into the political imaginings of the writer. This book made me want to track down the author and see what he has been doing for the cause lately.]
- Stiff by Mary Roach [This book is about the curious world of cadavers. Everything from forensics science history, to safety testing, to a couple of patented method of composting your remains.]
- The Population Explosion by Paul Ehrlich. [This book as so impressed some readers that they made the decision right then and there to not have children.]
- Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
- Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin [A nine-step program for personal financial transformation.]
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