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