Recommended Books, Organizations, and Resources

Green Political History

• Green Parties, Green Future: From Local Groups to the International Stage - Per Gahrton

• Green Parties in Europe - Emilie Van Haute

• Green Parties in National Governments - Ferdinand Müller-Rommel

• Who We Are: Reflections on My Life and Canada - Elizabeth May

• A Deal with the Devil: The Green Party in Government (Ireland) - Mary Minihan

• Without Power or Glory: The Green Party in Government in Ireland - Dan Boyle

• Bob Brown: Gentle Revolutionary - James Norman

• Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany - Paul Hockenos

• Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action - Bob Brown

• The German Left: Red, Green, and Beyond - Andrei S. Markovits, Philip S. Gorski

• The United Tasmania Group - Pamela Walker
  

General Environmental History

• The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands - Chris Turner

• The World We Made: Alex McKay’s Story from 2050 - Jonathon Porritt

• Sustainability or Collapse?: An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth - Robert Costanza, Lisa J Graumlich

• Nature’s Allies: Eight Conservationists Who Changes Our World - Larry Nielsen

• Oil’s Deep State: How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Stops Action on Global Warming, In Alberta and in Ottawa - Kevin Taft

• The Big Stall: How Big Oil and Think Tanks are Blocking Action on Climate Change in Canada - Donald Gutstein

• Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life - Matt Hern and Am Johal

Green, Post-Growth, and Ecological Economics

• Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist - Kate Raworth

• Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources - Rob Dietz, Dan O’Neill

• Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered - E.F. Schumacher

• Degrowth - Giorgos Kallis

• Steady-State Economics - Herman Daly

• Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet - Tim Jackson

• Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene - Peter G Brown, Peter Timmerman

• Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary - Alberto Acosta, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escober, Ashish Kothari, Federico DeMaria

• Sacred Economies: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition - Charles Eisenstein

• The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality - Richard Heinberg

• The Growth Delusion: The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations - David Pilling

• Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution - Brian Czech

• Modernizing Money: Why Our Monetary System is Broken and How it Can Be Fixed - Andrew Jackson

• Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice - Molly Scott Cato

• Managing without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster - Peter A Victor

Ecological Philosophy

• A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold

• The Ecology of Wisdom - Arne Naess

• Seeing Green: The Politics of Ecology Explained - Jonathon Porritt

• Ecological Governance: Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth - Bruce Jennings

• Green Political Theory - Robert E Goodin

• Green Political Thought - Andrew Dobson

• Thinking Like a Planet: The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic - J Baird Callicott

• Earth’s Insights: A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback - J Baird Callicott

• Environmental Ethics for Canadians - Byron Williston

• Canadian Environmental Philosophy - C Tyler DesRoches, Frank Jankunis, Byron Williston

• Environmental Citizenship - Andrew Dobson

• Green Liberalism - Marcel Wissenburg

Other Ecological Ideas

• The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability, Designing for Abundance - William McDonough, Michael Braungart

• Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity - Michael H Shuman

• From Corporate Globalization to Global Co-Operation: We Owe It to Our Grandchildren - Tom Webb

• Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems - Philip Ackerman-Leist

• Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing - Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd, Laurie Macfarlane

• With Liberty and Dividends for All: How to Save our Middle Class When Jobs Don’t Pay Enough - Peter Barnes

• Progress and Poverty - Henry George

• Facing Up to Climate Reality: Honesty, Disaster and Hope - John Foster

• Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness - Helena Norberg-Hodge

• Scaling Up: The Convergence of the Social Economy and Sustainability - Mike Gismondi, Sean Connelly, Mary Beckie, Sean Markey, Mark Roseland

Canadian

• Economics for the Anthropocene - Research and training partnership between several Canadian and American universities

• Canadian Society for Ecological Economics - Canadian society coordinating and promoting Ecological Economics

• Alternatives Journal - Canadian ecological magazine

• Canadian Co-Operative Research Network - Research network for Canadians engaged in studying co-operatives

• CoopZone - Provides resources and consultants to help develop cooperatives in Canada

• Centre for Local Prosperity - Canadian organization promoting local economic solutions for rural communities

• Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada - Supports and promotes co-operative organizations in Canada

International

• Global Greens - Political International organization for the world’s Green parties

• Heinrich Böll Stiftung: The Green Political Foundation - International Think Tank associated with the German Green Party

• Green House Think Tank - Ecological Think tank from the United Kingdom

• Green European Journal - Journal produced by the Green European Foundation

• Green European Foundation - Political foundation linked to the European Green Party

• International Society for Ecological Economics

• European Society for Ecological Economics

• Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy - Organization advancing awareness of steady-state economic ideas

• Club of Rome - Organization conducting research and hosting events on global issues facing humanity

• Research and Degrowth - Academic organization of researchers working in the field of degrowth

• Center for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity - UK research organization

• Rapid Transition Alliance - Network of organizations involved in transitioning to a sustainable economy and society

• Wellbeing Economy Alliance - Network of organizations promoting the transition to economies based on human wellbeing and planetary ecological limits

• Commons Transition - Aggregator of information on transitioning to a commons-based society and economy

• Positive Money - UK organization advocating for a reform of world monetary systems

• International Co-operative Alliance - Global organization advancing and representing co-operatives

• Land Stewardship Project - American organization training agricultural workers in land stewardship practices and ethics

• Local Futures - Promotes a systemic shift towards a new economy of localism

• Green Economy Coalition - Alliance of organizations dedicated to shifting to a greener and more inclusive economy