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Two audio files, click on: Derrick Jensen and Jack Reed


While there is confirmation that this is the best path for humanity from many sources, the following provide some of the clearest:

1) Anything by Eric Fromm, such as The Sane Society , "Escape from Freedom" or "The Art of Loving" and particularly, "To Have or to Be."

2)  A Handmade Life (In search of simplicity) by William S. Coperthwaite 

3)  Millennium Dawn (the philosophy of planetary crises and human liberation) by Glen T. Martin

4)  The Prophet  by Kahlil Gibran

5)  anything by Helen or Scott Nearing,  a poster of Scott Nearing

6)  Ted Trainer


Also, some good documentary or commentary videos on this subject are:

1) The End of Suburbia   http://www.endofsuburbia.com/ 

2) The Qatsi Trilogy
http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/

3) Jack Reed
http://www.communityplanet.org/media.htm

4) "Capitalism and other kids stuff" from the World Socialist site
http://www.worldsocialism.org/video/


And more.......

Sociology:

"The Sane Society"  by Erich Fromm

"Escape from Freedom"  by Erich Fromm

"Millennium Dawn The philosophy of planetary crisis and human liberation"  by Glen T. Martin

"A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander and others

"Ain't Going to Study War No More, The History of America's Peace Seekers" by Milton Meltzer

"The Chalice and the Blade"  by Riane Eisler

"Sacred Pleasure" by Riane Eisler

"Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"  by Jared Diamond

"The Culture of Make Believe"  by Derrick Jensen

"The Myth of Male Power"  by Warren Farrell

"On War"  by Howard Zinn

"The People's History Of the United States" by Howard Zinn

"Beyond Civilization" by Daniel Quinn

anything by Noam Chomsky

anything by  Arundhati Roy

anything by  Frances Moore lap

"In the Absence of the Sacred"   by Jerry Mander

"The Four Agreements"  by Don Miguel Ruiz

Cooperative Living:

 "Cohousing, A Contemporary Approach To Housing Ourselves"  by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett

"The Children of Prosperity" by Hugh Gardner

"Gaviotas A Village to Reinvent the World"  by Alan Weisman

Spirit:

Anything by Jiddu Krishnamurti

"The Art of Loving" by Erich Fromm

"The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran

"Tao Te Ching"  by Lao Tzu, an excellent translation and commentary by Ralph Allen Dale

Anything  by Peace Pilgrim

Diet:

"Nutrition And Physical Degeneration"  by Weston A. Price

Nourishing Traditions   by Sally Fallon

Healing with Whole Foods  by Paul Pitchford

Magazines:

Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living

Green Anarchy

Mother Jones

Harpers

Funny Times

 





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