Hi everyone thank you so much it seems mainstream publishing isn't yet dead! Here is the list, more or less in the order received, with a few repeats here and there!
Best, Kate Bill McKbiben¹s Eaarth (lots of recommendations!) Thomas Friedman¹s Hot Flat and Crowded Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction Karen Litfin Ecovillages (Polity Press) Paul Gilding, "The Great Disruption" (we're screwed, but some good may come of it) Mike Berners-Lee, "The Burning Question" (fossil fuels have to stay in the ground) Mike Berners-Lee, "How Bad are Bananas?" (the carbon footprint of everything) Alana Mitchell, "Sea Sick" (the oceans are screwed, and nothing good will come of it) Bill McKibben, "Oil and Honey;" "Eaarth;" "Deep Economy" Why We Disagree About Climate Change by Mike Hulme Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era by Amory B. Lovins David Keith, The Case for Climate Engineering Sabin The Bet Minter Junkyard Planet Rich Foreclosing the Future Smil Harvesting the Biosphere Nordhaus The Climate Casino (and anything by Vaclav Smil The Burning Question: http://www.burningquestion.info Joe Romm's Hell and High Water and Monbiot's Heat Kristen Iverson Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats http://www.amazon.com/Full-Body-Burden-Growing-Nuclear/dp/0307955656/ref=tmm _pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1324663336 <http://www.amazon.com/Full-Body-Burden-Growing-Nuclear/dp/0307955656/ref=tm m_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1324663336> Paul Harris, WHAT'S WRONG WITH CLIMATE POLITICS AND HOW TO FIX IT George Monbiot (2007) Heat: how we can stop the planet burning James Lovelock (2007) Revenge of Gaia Anthony Giddens (2009) Politics of climate change Nicholas Stern (2009) A Blueprint for a safer planet: How to manage climate change and create a new era of progress and prosperity. Mike Hulme (2009) Why we disagree about climate change Stephen Schneider (2009) Science as a contact sport Dale Jamieson, Reason in a Dark Time Boehm & Dabhi's 2009 Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets . Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. London: Verso, 2011 Andrew Revkin's 2006 book, The North Pole Was Here SCIENTISTS (big thanks to Rebecca Pearse for the following 5 sections!) Mann, M.E. (2013) The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, New York: Columbia University Press. Hansen, J. (2009), Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity, New York: Bloomsbury Press. Lowe, I. (2012), Bigger Or Better?: Australia's Population Debate, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. Schneider, S. (2009), Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save the Earth's Climate, Washington: National Geographic. ACTIVISTS McKibben, B. (2010), Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, New York: Henry Holt and Company. McKibben, B. (2012), Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist, Melbourne: Black Inc. Nace, T. (2010), Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal, San Francisco: CoalSwarm. Ormond, T. (2009), Rush! The Making of a Climate Activist, London: Marion Boyers. Rose, A. (2012), Madlands: A Journey to Change the Minds of a Climate Sceptic, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS (social sciences) Böhm, S. & Dabhi, S. (eds) (2009), Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets, London: Mayfly Books. Brand, U., Bullard, N., Lander, E. & Müller, T. (eds) (2009), Contours of Climate Justice: Ideas for Shaping New Climate and Energy Politics, vol. 6, Uppsala: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. Hamilton, C. (2007), Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change, Melbourne: Black Inc. Agenda. Hamilton, C. (2010), Requiem for a Species, Sydney: Allen and Unwin. Jackson, T. (2009), Prosperity Without Growth: The Transition to a Sustainable Economy London, UK Sustainable Development Commission (then published by Earthscan/Routledge). Lohmann, L. (2006), A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power, vol. 68, Uppsala: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. Pearse, G. (2007), High and Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future, Camberwell: Viking. Pearse, G. (2012), Greenwash: Big Brands and Carbon Scams, Melbourne: Black Inc. Pearse, G., McKnight, D. & Burton, B. (2012), Big Coal - Australia's Dirtiest Habit, Sydney: UNSW Press. Gilbertson, T. & Reyes, O. (2009), Carbon Trading: How It Works and Why It Fails, vol. 7, Uppsala: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation JOURNALISTS Cleary, P. (2012), Mine-Field: The Dark Side of Australia's Resources Rush, Melbourne: Black Inc. Lynas, M. (2007), Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, London: Fourth Estate. Manning, P. (2012), What the Frack? Everything You Need to Know About Coal Seam Gas, Sydney: NewSouth Publishing. Monbiot, G. (2006), Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning, London: Penguin. Monbiot, G. (2013), Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding, London: Penguin. Parenti, C. (2011), Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence, New York: Nation Books. WRITERS (other) Sharyn, M. (2010), Rich Land, Wasteland: How Coal is Killing Australia, Wollombi: Exisle Publishing. Spratt, D. & Sutton, P. (2008), Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action, Brunswick: Scribe. Stephen Schneider: Science as a Contact Sport Alan Weisman: The World Without Us Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals Beck, Glenn 2007: An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems, New York, NY: Threshold Editions; with a chapter on climate change. Welzer, Harald 2012: Climate Wars: What People Will Be Killed For in the 21st Century, John Wiley & Sons; at least the original German edition of 2008 really got quite some public attention. Dimitrov, Radislav S. Science and International Environmental Policy: Regimes and Nonregimes in Global Governance. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
