ARTICLE: Â Ecological Civilization and the New Enlightenment
ARTICLE: Â A Call for the Ecozoic by Herman Greene & Friends
ARTICLE:Â Leverage Points:Â Places to Intervene in a System
: : : : : : : : : by Donella Meadows
MORE resources (received with great gratitude from
www.greattransitionstories.org, which they have shared under a CopyLeft re-use license)
Books
- Lester Russell Brown, State of The World 2000 (2000)
- The Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet (2011)
- The Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity (2012)
- Duane Elgin, Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s Future (2000)
- Duane Elgin, Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich (1981, 1993, 2010)
- David Korten, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (2007)
- James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (2006)
- Donella H. Meadows, et al., Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future (1993)
- Bill McKibben, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010)
- James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (2008)
Articles & Reports
There is a growing literature focusing on the dynamics of our world in transition. Listed here are a few of the most important and insightful articles that we have found. Check back in regularly as this is an ever changing and expanding list.
- Rhonda Fabian, Connecting for Change: Insights from an Emerging Global Transformation Movement (2014)
- Madhusree Mukerjee, Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?, Scientific American (May 23, 2012)
- Anthony C. Revkin, Disruption on the Path to Transformation (October 2011)
- Gus Speth, American Prospect: Decline and Rebirth (July 2011)
- Paul Gilding, The Great Disruption Has Begun (February 2011)
- Anthony C. Revkin, Puberty on the Scale of a Planet (August 2009)
- Edmund Bourne, A World In Transition (2008)
- Global Trends 2025: The National Intelligence Council’s 2025 Project (2008)
- Ervin Laszlo, WorldShift: The Quest for a Quantum Leap in Human Affairs (January 2008)
- Joanna Macy, The Great Turning as Compass and Lens (May 2006)
- Paul Raskin, et al., The Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead (2002)
- Duane Elgin with Coleen LeDrew, Global Consciousness Change: Indicators of an Emerging Pardigm (1997)
Websites
- Lester Brown and the Earth Policy Institute
- Duane Elgin
- MANY more with strong science basis