{"id":514,"date":"2009-10-06T09:59:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T16:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/?page_id=514"},"modified":"2009-10-06T09:59:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T16:59:17","slug":"recommended-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/recommended-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some primary texts that have influenced the deep ecology and left-biocentric movements, listed in alphabetical order by title:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><em>A Sand County Almanac<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Aldo Leopold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Ballantine Books, 1966, ISBN 0-345-25336-1-195<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tA land ethic.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Avoiding Social And Ecological Disaster<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Rudolf Bahro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Gateway Books, 1994, ISBN 0-946551-71-5<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tThe politics of world transformation.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Dharma Rain<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Stephanie Kaza and Kenneth Kraft<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Shambhala Publications, 2000, ISBN 1-570624-75-5<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tThe Buddhist world view and its relation to deep ecology and activism<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Don&rsquo;t Think Of An Elephant<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>George Lakoff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Chelsea Green publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-931498-71-1<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tHow to frame your words to get the results you want.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Earth Alive<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Stan Rowe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>NeWest Press, ISBN 9-781897-126035<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tThe Earth is our only home; we are Earthlings.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Ecological Ethics<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Patrick Curry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Polity, 2006, ISBN 0-7456-2908-3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tAn ecological ethic is both needed and possible.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Ecology, Community And Lifestyle<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Arne Naess<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-521-34873-0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tA philosophy based on the assumption that life matters.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Val Plumwood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0-415-17878-9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tCogent critique of anthropocentrism with positive counter-suggestions.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Gutenberg Galaxy<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Marshall McLuhan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>University of Toronto Press, 1962, ISBN 978-0802060412<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tThe connection between culture, language,  and mass media.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Home Place<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Stan Rowe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>NeWest Press, 2002, ISBN 1-896300-53-7<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tThe Earth is our home; we should treat it so.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>In the Absence of the Sacred<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Jerry Mander<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Sierra Club Books, 1992, ISBN 0-871565-09-9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tDestruction of  indigenous wisdom by  western technological civilization.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Overshoot<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>William Catton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>University of Illinois Press, 1982, ISBN 0-252-00988-6<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tThe age of exuberance is over. The branch has already been sawed off.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Regarding Nature: Industrialism and Deep Ecology<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Andrew McLaughlin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>SUNY Press, 1993, ISBN 0-7914-1384-5<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tDevelops a theoretical background integrating deep ecology and social justice in a scholarly and left manner.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Steps to an ecology of Mind<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Gregory Bateson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>University Of Chicago Press, 2000, ISBN 0-226039-05-6<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\t Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology&mdash;a vast and challenging book.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>The Culture Of Extinction: Toward A Philosophy Of Deep Ecology<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Frederic L. Bender<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Humanity Books, New York, 2003, ISBN 1-59102-055-7<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\t&ldquo;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&rsquo;s future impact.&rdquo;<\/dd>\n<dt><em>The Fallacy Of Wildlife Conservation<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>John Livingston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1981, ISBN 0-7710-5336-3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tAnthrpocentric valuation of nature always loses.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>The Future Does Nor Compute<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Stephen Talbott<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>CENGAGE Learning, 1995, ISBN: 1-565920-85-6<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tThe perils of  computer technologies and how to transcend the machines in our souls.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>The Greening of Ethics: From Human Chauvinism to Deep-Green Theory<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Richard Sylvan and David Bennett<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>White Horse Press, Cambridge, 1994, ISBN 0-8165-1529-8<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tMade the key ideas of Deep Green Theory, from this &lsquo;bad boy&rsquo; of deep ecology, available to a wider audience for the first time.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Robinson Jeffers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-804741-08-5<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tThe poetry of deep ecology, originally published 1938.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>The Spell Of The Sensuous<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>David Abram<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Vintage Books, 1997, ISBN 0-679-77639-7<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tHow we got disconnected from the real world, and how to reconnect.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>The Spirit In The Gene<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Reg Morrison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Cornell University Press, 1999, ISBN<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tHuman genetic drivers are leading to catastrophe.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>The Tipping Point<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Malcolm Gladwell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Little, Brown &amp; Co, 2000, ISBN 0-965-022437<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tLittle things can add up to exponential changes.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>The Turning Point<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Fritjof Capra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Simon and Schuster, 1982, ISBN: 0553345729<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tThe profound analysis of deep crisis which has afflicted all fields of western science.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Thinking like a mountain<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>John Seed, Arne Naess, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>New Society Publishers, 2007, ISBN 9781897408001<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tThe brief &lsquo;poetical bible&rsquo; of deep ecology written by the founders.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>To Have or To Be<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Erich Fromm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Harper &amp; Row, 1976, ISBN: 0-060113-79-0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tThe human obsession with power and consumption from the viewpoint of psychoanalysis.<\/dd>\n<dt><em>Walden and Other Writings<\/em><\/dt>\n<dd><strong>Henry Thoreau<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<em>Bantam Books, 1962, ISBN 0-553-21012-2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\tA better life is possible: live simply.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}