I asked the list a group just over a week ago for suggestions for inspiring here's why we need to do something to save the planet" calls to action, and these are the suggestions I received --
Land Rights Now call to action is pretty powerful: http://www.landrightsnow.org/en/home/ Paul Harris' _What's Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It_ Bill McKibben's piece "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" in Rolling Stone ( http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719 ) the papal encyclical http://mil.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/04/07/0305829816636674.abstract *A World to Live In *by George Woodwell, MIT Press Srivastava's and Kothari's Churning the Earth (India-focused) Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry, (any of his books of essays) Wes Jackson, Consulting the Genius of the Place Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet Frances Moore Lappé, World Hunger: Ten Myths Johan Rockström & Mattias Klum, Big World Small Planet Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction Edward O. Wilson, The Creation Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, The Collapse of Western Civilization Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead Safina's Song for the Blue Ocean Sand County Almanac M. Gorbachev, Learning from Disaster, available at: http://www.ourplanet.com/imgversn/113/gorbachev.html Meadows, Donella H., Jørgen Randers, and Dennis L. Meadows. 2004. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. White River Junction (VT): Chelsea Green. Deur, Douglas and Nancy J. Turner, eds. 2005. Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Turner, Nancy. 2008. The Earth’s Blanket: Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living. D & M Publishers. Martínez-Alier, Joan. 2003. The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation. Edward Elgar Publishing. Vernadsky, Vladimir I. 1986. The Biosphere. Synergetic Press. Kathleen Moore and Michael Nelson, eds., Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril. Simon Nicholson and Paul Wapner, Global Environmental Politics: From Person to Planet (2015). Thanks, all! Beth Elizabeth R. DeSombre Wellesley College -- 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/d/optout.
