Links
Edward Abbey
- Plowboy interview in Mother Earth News
John O. Andersen
Essayist on the joys and implementation of the simple life.
- Unconventional Ideas ("Counter-Mainstream Thoughts on Living Meaningfully in the 21st Century") - homepage
Wendell Berry
US poet, farmer, environmental writer
- Community in 17 sensible steps (Berry's list)
- The Idea of a Local Economy (essay)
- Mad Farmers Liberation Front (poem)
- Some Further Words (poem)
- Interview by Jordan Fisher-Smith
- Plowboy Interview in Mother Earth News
- Wendell Berry (short page)
- Wendell Berry links (short page)
Ralph Borsodi
- Plowboy Interview in Mother Earth News
- Soil & Health Library (Social Criticism) has online versions of Borsodi books The Distribution Age and This Ugly Civilization.
- Soil & Health Library (Homesteading) has Borsodi's Flight From The City.
Ernest Callenbach
- homepage (Causes Mozilla and Firefox browsers to crash; use Explorer.)
- Ecotopia (sf novel)
- Ecotopia Emerging (sf novel)
- The Green Triangle Environment ("Environment, health, and money - help one, help them all")
- Ecotopia: Looking Back (and Forward)
- The Earth's Commandments
- Interview (1999)
- What is Ecotopia? (fan website)
- Living Cheaply With Style (book)
Doug Cocks
Australian futurologist and ecologist
CSIRO Sustainability Network
Australian group
Herman E. Daly
- Plowboy interview in Mother Earth News
- Five Policy Recommendations for a Sustainable Economy
Jared Diamond
- The Vanishing (article about his recent book)
- Twilight at Easter
David Ehrenfeld
- The Coming Collapse of the Age of Technology
- The Joseph Strategy ("As the energy emergency unfolds, is the blackout of 2003 a preview of things to come?")
Feasta (Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability)
Irish group promoting sustainability.
- homepage
- About Feasta
- Feasta Review #2: Growth the Celtic Cancer (online journal) / Review
- Before the Wells Run Dry: Ireland's Transition to Renewable Energy (Online papers from a conference)
- Short Circuit (online book by Richard Douthwaite about sustainable communities)
- Feasta Review #1 (online journal)
- The Ecology of Money (online book by Richard Douthwaite)
David Fleming
An independent economist with a post-PO society, The Lean Economy. Associated with Feasta.
- Short bio
- The Lean Economy: A Vision of Civility for a World in Trouble
- Building a Lean Economy for a fuel-poor future
- After Oil
- The Reality Principle: The consequences of oil shortages
- The Wages of Denial
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Noted economist who championed the idea that an economy faces limits to growth, due to entropy.
- Selections from his book Energy and Economic Myths
- Summary by Herman Daly
- Interview
- Short bio
- Solar Communism (essay about GR's ideas).
Euell Gibbons
- Plowboy interview in Mother Earth News
Edward Goldsmith
publisher of UK magazine, The Ecologist; "Writer, philosopher, ecological visionary"
- Whatever happened to ecology? The Ecologist Vol 15 No 3, 1985.
- Ecology - a bridge (Book review: Ecology: A Bridge Between Science and Society, by Eugene Odum, 2002)
John Michael Greer
Writer and "student of magic and the unknown."
- Progress as Modern Mythology
- The Coming of Deindustrial Society: A Practical Response
- The Stormwatch Project (Lodges and Community Organizations Preparing for the Future)
- More on the Stormwatch Project
- Why Civilizations Collapse: A Theory of Catabolic Collapse (RTF file) Academic essay recommended by Richard Heinberg.
M. King Hubbert
Geophysicist and originator of the concept of Peak Oil.
- Hubbert's Prescription for Survival: A Steady State Economy
- Hubbert on the Nature of Growth (1974 Senate testimony)
- Exponential Growth as a Transient Phenomenon in Human History
- Contributions to Technocracy
Ivan Illich
- A Prophet of Conviviality (Resurgence issue 221).
- The Ivan Illich Archive / Online Texts
- Ivan Illich: deschooling, conviality and the possibilities for informal education and lifelong learning
- Ivan Illich obits and online writings Thinking After Illich Online writings by Illich and friends Ivan Illich: Writing on the Web Energy and Equity online book by Illich Deschooling Society online book by Illich Tools for Conviviality online book by Illich (PDF) Illichville A utopia in the Midwest named after Ivan Illich.
Japan for Sustainability
- homepage
- Slow Life Movement
- Japan's Sustainable Society in the Edo Period (1603-1867) Part 1 / Part 2
- The Edo Period had an Ecological Society by Eisuke Ishikawa Chaps 1-8 / Chaps 9-13
Derrick Jensen
Firebrand environmentalist author.
- homepage
- online works (I most like his interviews of other figures.)
Amanda Kovattana
Jan Lundberg.
N. Calif activist and writer. Member of Lundberg family of oil analysts.
- Culture Change homepage and online newsletter, with an emphasis on oil and energy)
- "The fall of petroleum civilization" (essay)
- "Depaving Paradise" (interview in Audobon magazine)
- "Depaved with Good Intentions" ("Why auto-free utopian Jan Lundberg believes we're all on the road to hell." - interview)
Donella Meadows
- Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (PDF) (important essay).
- Facing the Limits to Growth (with Jorgen Randersan and Dennis Meadows)
- Global Citizen (online archive of her columns). Examples:
- Seven-Plus Wonders of Sustainability
- Living on Sun, Water, Wind, Grass and Community
- Another archive (from Sustainability Institute)
Minnesotans For Sustainability
- Online library of articles (has a slant towards population control)
Helen and Scott Nearing
- Plowboy interview in Mother Earth News
New Solutions: The Community Solution
- The Community Solution (homepage, describing the end of oil)
- Small Local Community (another homepage, emphasizing small communities)
- Community Resurgence and Oil Depletion (PDF)
- Cuba: Life after Oil (PDF)
Andrew Noll
Carpenter, goat-herder, engineer, writer with a worldview outside the mainstream.
- A Small Survival Guide (advocates a pastoral, hunter-gatherer lifestyle)
- Sustainable Food Production
- Is Farming Sustainable?
- Harmony #1 / #2 (long philosophical/religious/environmental/biographical book in two parts)
Helena Norberg-Hodge
- Buddhism in the Global Economy
- Interview by David Leser
- Interview by Nermeen Shaikh
- Interview by Julian Darley
- Talk (California Food Report launch)
- Ripe for Change: Rethinking California's Food Economy (131-page report in PDF)
- The Cost of Development
- The Pressure to Modernize and Globalize
- Globalisation and Terror
Dave Pollard
- How to Save the World (homepage)
- How You Can Help Save the World (fifteen things anyone can do)
- How to Save the World ("How Most of What We've Been Taught is False and How a New Understanding of Our Place on Earth Could Change Everything")
- The Consequences of Failure: What Eco-Collapse Might Look Like xxx
- The Post-Consumer Economy: A Model for Our Future (how an economy based on collaboration & well-being, and a relater-sharer culture, could change everything)
- The Five Elements: Remaking Our Culture to Change the World (prerequisites for an environmentally friendly culture)
- Plan B: if moderate solutions don't prevent eco-catastrophe, we might have to resort to this
William E. Rees
Co-originator of the Ecological Footprint concept.
Theodore Roszak
Sociologist, author. Wrote Making of a Counterculture.
- Birth of an Old Generation (essay)
- "You say you want a revolution" (interview)
- "Theodore Roszak: Boomer Chronicles" (interview)
- "Redefining Aging" (article that mentions Roszak)
E.F. Schumacher
- Plowboy Interview in Mother Earth News
- Buddhist Economics (essay)
- E.F. Schumacher Society / online publications (variety of authors including Kirkpatrick Sale, Hazel Henderson and John Todd).
John Seymour
- The Age of Healing (essay. Resurgence)
- Interview
- A Dream
- Solving the slurry problem (essay)
- John Seymour's Self Sufficiency Network
- Obituaries: UK Guardian / Times
Gary Snyder
- Plowboy interview in Mother Earth News
Sustainability Institute
Joseph A. Tainter
- Complexity, Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies
- Resource Transitions and Energy Gain: Contexts of Organization / PDF (much better format) (written with T. F. H. Allen, Amanda Little, and Thomas W. Hoekstra)
Ted (F.E.)Trainer
Australian professor, advocate for ecovillages and dramatically
simpler lifestyles.
- The Simpler Way (homepage) has links to many articles by Trainer, including:
- The Alternative, Sustainable Society: The Simpler Way
- How Cheaply We Could Live
- Thoughts on the Transition to a Sustainable Society
- The Transition Is Underway
- The Way I Live
- What Should We Do? Build Alternatives Now!
- Why Bother with Permaculture?
Ted (F.E.)Trainer - utopian novel
- The Way It Could Be: A Visit to a Sustainable Society
- "220-page fictional account of a jourrnalist's three day visit to a town that practises The Simpler Way"
- (part 1) / (part 2) / (part 3) / (part 4) / (part 5) / (part 6)
Other
- Eco-restructuring: The transition to an ecologically sustainable economy (UN-ish book)
- Overcoming Consumerism (essays, how-to, activism)
- Primitivism (collection of articles on primitivism, "ways of life running counter to the development of technology,")
- WorldChanging: another world is here ("Models, Tools, and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future")
- Sustainable Development Virtual Library Huge list of links.
- Eco-Marxist Links
- Ecology Links