Recommended reading
Here are some primary texts that have influenced the deep ecology and left-biocentric movements, listed in alphabetical order by title:
- A Sand County Almanac
- Aldo Leopold
Ballantine Books, 1966, ISBN 0-345-25336-1-195
A land ethic.
- Avoiding Social And Ecological Disaster
- Rudolf Bahro
Gateway Books, 1994, ISBN 0-946551-71-5
The politics of world transformation.
- Dharma Rain
- Stephanie Kaza and Kenneth Kraft
Shambhala Publications, 2000, ISBN 1-570624-75-5
The Buddhist world view and its relation to deep ecology and activism
- Don’t Think Of An Elephant
- George Lakoff
Chelsea Green publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-931498-71-1
How to frame your words to get the results you want.
- Earth Alive
- Stan Rowe
NeWest Press, ISBN 9-781897-126035
The Earth is our only home; we are Earthlings.
- Ecological Ethics
- Patrick Curry
Polity, 2006, ISBN 0-7456-2908-3
An ecological ethic is both needed and possible.
- Ecology, Community And Lifestyle
- Arne Naess
Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-521-34873-0
A philosophy based on the assumption that life matters.
- Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason
- Val Plumwood
Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0-415-17878-9
Cogent critique of anthropocentrism with positive counter-suggestions.
- Gutenberg Galaxy
- Marshall McLuhan
University of Toronto Press, 1962, ISBN 978-0802060412
The connection between culture, language, and mass media.
- Home Place
- Stan Rowe
NeWest Press, 2002, ISBN 1-896300-53-7
The Earth is our home; we should treat it so.
- In the Absence of the Sacred
- Jerry Mander
Sierra Club Books, 1992, ISBN 0-871565-09-9
Destruction of indigenous wisdom by western technological civilization.
- Overshoot
- William Catton
University of Illinois Press, 1982, ISBN 0-252-00988-6
The age of exuberance is over. The branch has already been sawed off.
- Regarding Nature: Industrialism and Deep Ecology
- Andrew McLaughlin
SUNY Press, 1993, ISBN 0-7914-1384-5
Develops a theoretical background integrating deep ecology and social justice in a scholarly and left manner.
- Steps to an ecology of Mind
- Gregory Bateson
University Of Chicago Press, 2000, ISBN 0-226039-05-6
Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology—a vast and challenging book.
- The Culture Of Extinction: Toward A Philosophy Of Deep Ecology
- Frederic L. Bender
Humanity Books, New York, 2003, ISBN 1-59102-055-7
“Progressive political change, Earth-oriented spirituality, and an ecological world view can and must reinforce each other, since they are equally vital to radical ecology’s future impact.”
- The Fallacy Of Wildlife Conservation
- John Livingston
McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1981, ISBN 0-7710-5336-3
Anthrpocentric valuation of nature always loses.
- The Future Does Nor Compute
- Stephen Talbott
CENGAGE Learning, 1995, ISBN: 1-565920-85-6
The perils of computer technologies and how to transcend the machines in our souls.
- The Greening of Ethics: From Human Chauvinism to Deep-Green Theory
- Richard Sylvan and David Bennett
White Horse Press, Cambridge, 1994, ISBN 0-8165-1529-8
Made the key ideas of Deep Green Theory, from this ‘bad boy’ of deep ecology, available to a wider audience for the first time.
- The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
- Robinson Jeffers
Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-804741-08-5
The poetry of deep ecology, originally published 1938.
- The Spell Of The Sensuous
- David Abram
Vintage Books, 1997, ISBN 0-679-77639-7
How we got disconnected from the real world, and how to reconnect.
- The Spirit In The Gene
- Reg Morrison
Cornell University Press, 1999, ISBN
Human genetic drivers are leading to catastrophe.
- The Tipping Point
- Malcolm Gladwell
Little, Brown & Co, 2000, ISBN 0-965-022437
Little things can add up to exponential changes.
- The Turning Point
- Fritjof Capra
Simon and Schuster, 1982, ISBN: 0553345729
The profound analysis of deep crisis which has afflicted all fields of western science.
- Thinking like a mountain
- John Seed, Arne Naess, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming
New Society Publishers, 2007, ISBN 9781897408001
The brief ‘poetical bible’ of deep ecology written by the founders.
- To Have or To Be
- Erich Fromm
Harper & Row, 1976, ISBN: 0-060113-79-0
The human obsession with power and consumption from the viewpoint of psychoanalysis.
- Walden and Other Writings
- Henry Thoreau
Bantam Books, 1962, ISBN 0-553-21012-2
A better life is possible: live simply.
