Reading List/BCISE Library Books:
Aplet, G.H., N. Johnson, J.T. Olson d V.A. Sample. 1993. Defining sustainable forestry. Island Press, Washington, DC. 328 p.
Architecture for Humanity (ed.). 2006. Design like you give a damn. Architectural responses to humanitarian crises. Metropolis Books, New York, NY. 333 p.
Atlee, .T. 2003. The Tao of democracy: Using co-intelligence to create a world that works for all. The Writers’ Collective, Cranston, RI. 314 p.
Baker, N. 2008. The body toxic: how the hazardous chemistry of everyday things threatens our health and well-being. North Point Press, New York, NY. 277 p.
Baldwin, C. and A. Linnea. 2010. The circle way – a leader in every chair. Berret-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA. 218 p.
Barlow, M. 2005. Too close for comfort. Canada’s future within Fortress North America. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, Ontario. 300 p.
Barnosky, A.D. 2009. Heatstroke: Nature in an age of global warming. Island Press, Washington, DC. 269 p.
Begich, N. and J. Roderick. 2000. Earth rising: toward a thousand years of peace. Earthpulse Press, Anchorage, AK. 290 p.
Begich, N. and J. Roderick. 2003. Earth Rising II: the betrayal of science, society and the soul. Earthpulse Press, Anchorage, AK. 223 p.
Beresford-Kroeger, D. 2003. Arboretum America, A philosophy of the forest. Univerisity of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI. 196 p.
Black, D. 2008. Living off the grid. A simple guide to creating and maintaining a self-reliant supply of energy, water, shelter, and more. Skyhorse Publishing, New York, NY. 280 p.
Bloom, H. 2010. The genius of the beast: a radical re-vision of capitalism. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY. 607 p.
Blume, D. 2007. Alcohol can be a gas! Fueling an ethanol revolution for the 21st Century. The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, Santa Cruz, CA. 591 p.
Bodansky, Y. 2004. The secret history of the Iraq War. Regan Books, New York, NY. 570 p.
Bookchin, M. 2007. Social ecology and communalism. AK Press, Oakland, CA. 118 p.
Brett, B. 2009. Trauma Farm: A rebel history of rural life. Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC 373 p.
Brown, E.H. 2010. Web of debt. The shocking truth about our money system and how we can break free. Third Millenium Press, Baton Rouge. LA. 530 p.
Brower, D. and S. Chapple. 2000. Let the mountains talk, let the rivers run. A call to those who would save the earth. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, CAN. 204 p.
Brown, L.B. 2009. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to save civilization. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York, NY. 368 p.
Brunner, R.D., T.A. Steelman, L. Coe-Juell, C.M. Cromley, C.M. Edwards and D.W. Tucker. 2005. Adaptive governance. Integrating science, policy, and decision-making. Columbia University Press, New York, NY. 319 p.
Bunnell, F.L. and J.F. Johnson (eds.). 1998. The living dance: policy and practices for biodiversity in managed forests. UBC Press, Vancouver, BC. 162 p.
Campbell, B. and E. Finn (eds.). 2006. Living with Uncle. Canada-US relations in an age of empire. James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, Toronto, Ontario. 279 p.
Cashore, B., G. Hoberg. M. Hewlett, J. Rayner and J. Wilson. 2001. In search of sustainability. British Columbia’s forest policy in the 1990s. UBC Press, Vancouver, BC. 329 p.
Chapin, III, F.S., G.P. Kofinas and C. Folke (eds.). 2009. Principles of ecosystem stewardship. Resilience-based natural resource management in a changing world. Springer-Science + Business Media, New York, NY. 401 p.
Clark, T.W. 2002. The policy process. A Practical guide for natural resource professionals. Yale University Press, New Haven, CONN. 215 p.
Clarkson, S. 2008. Does North America exist? Governing the continent after NAFTA and 9/11. University of Toronto Press Incorporated, Toronto, Ontario. 591 p.
Collins, J. 2001. Good to great. Why some companies make the leap …and others don’t. HarperCollins Publishers Inc., New York, NY. 300 p.
Condon, P.M. 2010. Seven rules for sustainable communities: Design strategies for the post-carbon world. Island Press, Washington, DC. 200 p.
Corsi, J.R. 2007. The late great USA: the coming merger with Mexico and Canada. WND Books, World Ahead Media, Los Angeles, CA. 241 p.
Cribb, J. 2010. The coming famine: The global food crisis and what we can do about it. University of California Press. 249 p.
Dawe, N.K. and K.L. Ryan. 2003. The faulty three-legged-stool model of sustainable development. Qualicum Institute, Parksville, BC. Conservation Biology 17 (5): 1458–1460.
Diamond, J. 2005. Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed. Viking Penguin. New York, NY. 575 p.
Drushka, K., B. Nixon and R. Travers. 1993. Touch wood – BC forests at the crossroads. Harbour Publishing Company Ltd., Madeira Park, BC. 236 p.
Duany, A., E. Plater-Zyberk and J. Speck. 2000. Suburban nation. The rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream. North Point Press, New York, NY. 294 p.
Dyer, G. 2004. Future tense: the coming world order. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, Ontario. 258 p.
Dyer, G. 2007. The mess they made in the Middle East after Iraq. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, Ontario. 267 p.
Dyer, G. 2008. Climate wars. Random House Canada. 267 p.
Eberhart, M.E. 2007. Feeding the fire: the lost history & uncertain future of mankind’s energy addiction. Harmony Books, New York, NY. 283 p.
Estill, L. 2008. Small is possible – life in a local economy. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, CAN. 226 p.
Estulin, D. 2007. The true story of the Bilderberg Group. TrineDay LLC, Walterville, OR. 340 p.
Felix, R.W. 2005. Not by fire but by ice. Discover what killed the dinosaurs…and why it could soon kill us. Sugarhouse Publishing, Bellevue, WA. 255 p.
Finn, E. 2007. The right is wrong and the left is right: cutting through the neoliberal bafflegab. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ottawa, Ont. 316 p.
Friedman, T.L. 2008. Hot, flat, and crowded. Why we need a green revolution and how it can renew America. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY. 438 p.
Greer, J.M. 2008. The long descent. A user’s guide to the end of the Industrial Age. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC. 257 p.
Halseth, G. And R. Halseth. 2004. Building for success: Exploration of rural community and rural development. University of Northern BC. Rural Development Institute, Brandon University, Brandon, MAN. 413 p.
Hammond, H. 2009. Maintaining whole systems on earth’s crown. Ecosystem-based conservation planning for the Boreal Forest. SIlva Forest Foundation, Slocan Park, BC. 389 p.
Hansen, H. 2009. Storms of my grandchildren. Bloomsbury USA, New York, NY. 303 p.
Harrington, R.L. 1990. To heal the earth: The case for an earth ethic. Hancock House Publishers, Surrey, BC, CAN. 303 p.
Hawken, P. 1993. The ecology of commerce: A declaration of sustainability. HarperBusiness, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY. 250 p.
Hawken, P. 2007. Blessed unrest. How the largest social movement in history is restoring grace, justice, and beauty to the world. Penguin Books Ltd., London, UK. 342 p.
Helliwell, J.F. 2002. Globalization and well-being. UBC Press, Vancouver, BC. 104 p.
Hewitt, B. 2009. The town that food saved: How one community found vitality in local food. Rodale Inc., New York, NY.234 p.
Hawken, P., A. Lovins and L. H. Lovins. 1999. Natural capitalism: creating the next industrial revolution. Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group, New York, NY. 395 p.
Hayter, R. 2000. Flexible crossroads. The restructuring of British Columbia’s forest economy. UBC Press, Vancouver, BC. 430 p.
Herriot, C. 2010. The zero-mile diet: a year-round guide to growing organic food. Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., Madeira Park, BC. 256 p.
Holmgren, D. 2002. Permaculture. Principles & pathways beyond sustainability. Holmgren Design Services, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia. 286 p.
Homer-Dixon, T. (ed.) 2009. Carbon shift: how the twin crises of oil depletion and climate change will define the future. Random House Canada, Toronto, Ontario. 230 p.
Hopkins, R. 2008. The transition handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, VT. 240 p.
Hurtig, M. 2002. The vanishing country – is it too late to save Canada? McClelland & Stewart, Ltd., Toronto, Ontario. 449 p.
Icke, D. 2007. The David Icke guide to the global conspiracy (and how to end it). David Icke Books Ltd., Ryde, Isle of Wright, UK. 619 p.
Ikerd, J. 2005. Sustainable capitalism: a matter of common sense. Kumarian Press, Inc. Bloomfield, CN. 211 p.
Jacke, D. 2005. Edible forest gardens. Vol. 1. Ecological vision and theory for temperate climate permaculture. Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT. 377 p.
Jacke, D. 2005. Edible forest gardens. Vol. 2. Ecological design and practice for temperate climate permaculture. Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT. 654 p.
Jackson, T. 2009. Prosperity without growth – economics for a finite planet. Earthscan, London, UK. 264 p.
Jacobs, J. 2004. Dark age ahead. Vintage Canada, Random House of Canada Ltd., Toronto, ON. 241 p.
Johnson, C. 2006. Nemesis: the last days of the American Republic. Henry Holt and Company, New York, NY. 354 p.
Katz, E., A. Light, and D. Rothenberg (eds.). 2000. Beneath the surface. Critical essays in the philosophy of deep ecology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MASS. 328 p.
Kingsolver, B., S.L. Hopp and C. Kingsolver. 2007. Animal, vegetable, miracle. A year of food life. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Toronto, Ontario. 370 p.
Klein, N. 2000. No logo. Taking aim at the brand bullies. Vintage Canada, Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, ONT, Can. 490 p.
Kline, N. 2007. The shock doctrine. The rise of disaster capitalism. Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto, Ontario. 662 p.
Korten, D.C. 2009. Agenda for a new economy: from phantom wealth to real wealth. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA. 196 p.
Korten, D.C. 2006. The great turning: from empire to earth community. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francsco, CA. 399 p.
Kunstler, J.H. 1996. Home from nowhere. Remaking our everyday world for the 21st Century. Touchstone, New York, NY. 318 p.
Kunstler, J.H. 2005. The long emergency: surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, NY. 307 p.
Lance, P. 2003. 1000 years for revenge. International terrorism and the FBI” the untold story. HarperCollins Publishers Inc., New York, NY. 539 p.
Leopold, L. 2009. The looting of America. Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT. 219 p.
Lewis, T.A. 2009. Brace for impact: Surviving the crash of the Industrial Age by sustainable living. Outskirts Press, Inc., Denver, CO. 211 p.
Lindenmayer, D.B., P.J. Burton and J.F. Franklin. 2008. Salvage logging and its ecological consequences. Island Press, Washington, DC. 227 p.
Linkola, P. 2009. Can life prevail? A radical approach to the environmental crisis. 1st English Edition. Integral Tradition Publishing, London, UK. 206 p.
Lovelock, J. 2009. The vanishing face of Gaia, a final warning. Penguin Bools Ltd., London, UK. 178 p.
Lyman, H.F. 1998. Mad Cowboy: Plain truth from the cattle rancher who won’t eat meat. Touchstone, New York, NY. 223 p.
Lyman, H.F. 2005. No more bull! The Mad Cowboy targets America’s worst enemy: our diet. Scribner, New York, NY. 273 p.
MacRae, P. 2010. False alarm: Global warming – facts versus fears. Spring Bay Press. Victoria, BC. 369 p.
Marchak, M.P., S.L. Aycock and D.M. Herbert. 1999. Falldown. Forest policy in British Columbia. The David Suzuki Foundation and Ecotrust Canada, Vancouver, BC. 199 p.
Marrs, J. 2008. The rise of the Fourth Reich. The secret societies that threaten to take over America. HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY. 435 p.
Maser, C. 1994. Sustainable forestry. Philosophy, science, and economics. St. Lucie Press, Delray FL. 373 p.
Maté, G. 2008. In the realm of hungry ghosts. Close encounters with addiction. Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto, Ontario. 465 p.
McKenzie-Mohr, D. and W. Smith. 1999. Fostering sustainable behaviour: An introduction to community-based social marketing. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, CAN. 160 p.
McKibben, B. 2007. Deep economy: the wealth of communities and the durable future. Henry Holt and Company, LLC, New York, NY. 261 p.
McKillop, A. and S. Newman (eds.). 2005. The final energy crisis. Pluto Press, London, UK. 325 p.
Mitchell, A. 2009. Sea sick. The global ocean in crisis. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, ONT. 238 p.
Monbiot. G. 2006. Heat – how to stop the planet from burning. Doubleday Canada, Toronto, ONT. 277 p.
Montgomery, D.R. 2007. Dirt: the erosion of civilizations. University of California Press, Berkley, CA. 285 p.
Murphy, E.R. 2008. Plan C. Community survival strategies for peak oil and climate change. New Society Publishers. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada. 316 p.
Natrass, B. and M. Altomare. 2002. Dancing with the tiger. Learning sustainability step by natural step. New Soceity Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, CAN. 301 p.
Nisbett, R.E. 2003. The geography of thought: how Asians and Westerners think differently…and why. Free Press, New York, NY. 263 p.
Norman, J.R. 2008. The oil card. Global economic warfare in the 21st Century. Trine Day LLC, Walterville, OR. 244 p.
Panzner, M.J. 2009. When giants fall. An economic roadmap for the end of the American Era. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. 264 p.
Paskal, C. 2010. Global warring. How environmental, economic and political crises will redraw the world map. Key Porter Books Limited, Toronto, Ontario. 288 p.
Patel, R. 2009. The value of nothing: why everything costs so much more than we think. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., Toronto, ONT. 250 p.
Perkins, J. 2009. Hoodwinked. Broadway Books, New York, NY. 243 p.
Peters, G. 2009. Seeds of terror: how heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda. St. Martin’s Press, New York NY. 300 p.
Pink, D.H. 2005. A whole new mind – moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual age. Riverhead Books, New York, NY. 260 p.
Pollan, M. 2008. In defense of food: an eater’s manifesto. The Penguin Press, London, UK. 244 p.
Porritt, J. 2007. Capitalism as if the world matters. Earthscan, London, UK. 360 p.
Poteete, A.R., M.A. Janssen and E. Ostrom. 2010. Working together. Collective action the commons, and multiple methods in practice. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 346 p.
Roberts, P. 2004. The end of oil: on the edge of a perilous new world. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, NY. 399 p.
Rodale, M. 2010. Organic manifesto: how organic farming can heal our planet, feed the world, and keep us safe. Rodale Inc., New York, NY. 208 p.
Rosen, N. 2010. Off the grid – inside the movement for more space, less government, and true independence in modern America. Penguin Books Ltd., London, UK. 292 p
Ryan, J.C. and A.T. Durning. 1997. Stuff – the secret lives of everyday stuff. Northwest Environmental Watch, NEW Report No. 4, Seattle, WA. 86 p.
Sachs, J.D. 2008. Common wealth: Economics for a crowded planet. Penguin Books Ltd., New York, NY. 386 p.
Salazar, D.J. and D.K. Alper. 2000. Sustaining the forests of the Pacific coast. Forging truces in the was in the woods. UBC Press, Vancouver, BC. 256 p.
Scott, D.S. 2007. Smelling land. The hydrogen defense against climate catastrophe. Canadian Hydrogen Association. Victoria, BC. 485 p.
Shelford, C. 1993. Think Wood! The forest is an open book; all we have to do is read it. Shelford Publishing, Victoria, BC. 190 p.
Simmons, M.R. 2005. Twilight in the desert. The coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. 442 p.
Smick, D.M. 2008. The world is curved. Hidden dangers to the global economy. Portfolio, Penguin Group, New York, NY. 305 p.
Smith, J.M. 2003. Seeds of deception. Exposing industry and government lies about the safety of the genetically engineered foods you’re eating. Yes! Books. Fairfield, IA. 268 p.
Smith, J.M. 2007. Genetic roulette: the documented health risks of genetically engineered foods. Yes! Books. Fairfield, IA. 319 p.
Smith, L.C. 2010. The world in 2050. Four forces shaping civilization’s northern future. Penguin Group (USA) Inc., New York, NY. 322 p.
Speth, J.G. 2008. The bridge at the edge of the world: capitalism, the environment, and crossing from crisis to sustainability. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 295 p.
Steffen, A. (ed.). 2006. World changing. A user’s guide for the 21st Century. Harry, N. Abrams, New York, NY. 596 p.
Summers, M.V. 2009. The great waves of change. Navigating the difficult times ahead. The Society for the Greater Community Way of Knowledge. Boulder, CO. 232 p.
Sunstein, C.R. 2004. The second Bill of Rights: FDR’s unfinished revolution and why we need it more than ever. Basic Books, New York, NY. 294 p.
Suzuki, D. 2003. The David Suzuki reader. Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, CAN. 388 p.
Suzuki, D. 2006. David Suzuki the autobiography. Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, CAN. 404 p.
Suzuki, D. and H. Dressel. 2002. Good news for a change – how everyday people are helping the planet. Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, CAN. 399 p.
Tasch, W. 2008. Inquiries into the nature of slow money – investing as if food, farms, and fertility mattered. Chlsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, VT. 204 p.
Tollefson, C. 1998. The wealth of forests: markets, regulation, and sustainable forestry. UBC Press, Vancouver, BC. 396 p.
Toensmeier, E. 2007. Perennial vegetables. From artichoke to ‘Zuiki’ taro, a gardener’s guide to over 100 delicious, easy-to-grow edibles. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, VT. 241 p.
Turner, N. 2005. The Earth’s blanket. Traditional teachings for sustainable living. Douglas & McIntyre. Vancouver, BC. 298 p.
Voller, J. and S. Harrison (eds.). 1998. Conservation biology principles for forested landscapes. UBC Press, Vancouver, BC 243 p.
Wackernagel, M. and W.E. Rees. 1998. Our ecological footprint: reducing human impact on the earth. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada.
Walker, B. and D. Salt. 2007. Resilience thinking: sustaining ecosystems and people in a changing world. Island Press, Washington, DC.
Ward, P.D. 2007. Under a green sky. Global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they can tell us about our future. Smithsonian Books, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., New York, NY. 242 p.
Wells, S. 2010. Pandora’s seed. The unforeseen cost of civilization. Random House, New York, NY. 230 p.
Whybrow, P.C. 2005. American mania. When more is not enough. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY. 338 p.
Williamson, M. (ed.) 2001, Imagine what America could be in the 21st Century. New American Library, New York, NY. 414 p.
Wood, P.M. 2000. Biodiversity and democracy – rethinking society and nature. UBC Press, Vancouver, BC. 237 p.
Wooldridge, F. 2009. America on the brink. Authorhouse, Bloomington, IN. 217 p.
Worldwatch Institute. 2010. 2010 State of the world: transforming cultures from consumerism to sustainability. W.W. Norton & Company Ltd,. London, UK. 244 p.
Wright, R. 2004. A short history of progress. House of Anansi Press Inc. Toronto, ON. 211 p.
Ward, P.D. 2010. The flooded earth. Our future in a world without ice caps. Basic Books, New York, NY. 261 p.