Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
10 best books like Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (Vandana Shiva): Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations, Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community, Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water, Edible Schoolyard, Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth, Getting A Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros
Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations
| Author | Carol J. Adams |
| ISBN | 0822316676 |
Animals and Women is a collection of pioneering essays that explores the theoretical connections between feminism and animal defense. Offering a feminist perspective on the status of animals, this unique volume argues persuasively that both the social construction and oppressions of women are...
Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment, connection, revolution--it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt.
Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and...
| Author | Bron Taylor |
| ISBN | 0520261003 |
In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of “green religions” in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional religions. Tracing a wide range of groups—radical environmental activists,...
| Author | William R. Catton Jr. |
| ISBN | 0252009886 |
I've been reading books on “the Problem of Civilization” for several years now. I'm constantly seeking to refine my conceptualization of the way humans interact with each other and their environment. Contrary to what one reviewer says (that most of Catton's book is “common knowledge for any...
| Author | Maude Barlow |
| ISBN | 1565848136 |
In this “chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis” (In These Times), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Our most basic resource...
| Author | Alice Waters |
| ISBN | 0811862801 |
One of America's most influential chefs, Alice Waters created a revolution in 1971 when she introduced local, organic fare at her Berkeley, California, restaurant, Chez Panisse. Twenty-five years later, she and a small group of teachers and volunteers turned over long-abandoned soil at an urban...
| Author | Bill McKibben |
| ISBN | 1571313001 |
Divided into three sections, Hope, Human and Wild profiles the efforts of three caring communities to preserve wilderness and reverse environmental devastation. They include the reforestation of McKibben’s home territory, New York’s Adirondack Mountains; solving traffic and pollution...
| Author | Frances Moore Lappé |
| ISBN | 0979414245 |
Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity & Courage in a World Gone Mad is a little book with a big message. Frances Moore Lappe--author of fifteen books, including three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet--distills her world-spanning experience and wisdom in a conversational yet hard-hitting...
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
| Author | Regina G. Kunzel |
| ISBN | 0226462269 |
Sex is usually assumed to be a closely guarded secret of prison life. But it has long been the subject of intense scrutiny by both prison administrators and reformers—as well as a source of fascination and anxiety for the American public. Historically, sex behind bars has evoked radically different...
Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros
| Author | Derrick Jensen |
| ISBN | 1931498563 |
In this far-ranging and heartening collection, Derrick Jensen gathers conversations with environmentalists, theologians, Native Americans, psychologists, and feminists, engaging some of our best minds in an exploration of more peaceful ways to live on Earth. Included here is Dave Foreman on...
| Author | Clive Ponting |
| ISBN | 0140176608 |
A study of world civilizations, from Sumeria to Ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire of pre-Columbian North America and tiny Easter Island, that argues that over and over again, human beings have built societies that have grown and prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources, only to expand to the point...
Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered
| Author | Bill Devall |
| ISBN | 0879052473 |
Practicing is simple. Nothing forced, nothing violent, just settling into our place. "Deep ecology," a term originated in 1972 by Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, is emerging as a way to develop harmony between individuals, communities and nature. DEEP ECOLOGY--the term and the book--unfolds...
| Author | Richard Heinberg |
| ISBN | 0865715106 |
If the US continues with its current policies, the next decades will be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Resource depletion and population pressures are about to catch up with us, and no one is prepared. The political elites, especially in the US, are incapable of dealing...
The Earth Care Manual: A Permaculture Handbook for Britain and Other Temperate Climates
The long-awaited exploration of permaculture specifically for cooler Northern Hemisphere climates is finally here! Already regarded as the definitive book on the subject, The Earth Care Manual is accessible to the curious novice as much as it is essential for the knowledgeable practitioner.
Permaculture...
| Author | Maria Mies |
| ISBN | 1856491560 |
Two of Zed's best-known authors, one an economist, the other a physicist and philosopher, come together in this book on a controversial environmental agenda. Using interview material, they bring together women's perspectives from North and South on environmental deterioration and develop and...
| Author | Stephen Harrod Buhner |
| ISBN | 1890132888 |
This could be the most important book you will read this year. Well-known author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner has produced a book that is certain to generate controversy. It consists of three parts: A critique of technological medicine, and especially the dangers to the...
Talking About a Revolution: Interviews with Michael Albert, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, bell hooks, Peter Kwong, Winona LaDuke, Manning Marable, Urvashi Vaid, and Howard Zinn
| Author | The South End Press Collective |
| ISBN | 0896085872 |
"When people learn that more money is spent on prisons than education, that you could send a prisoner to Harvard for less money than it takes to incarcerate him or her, there is surprise, then understanding."
I didn't love the format of this book and I wish some of the questions were more in depth...
Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide
| Author | Scott Kellogg |
| ISBN | 0896087808 |
The tools you need to create self-sufficient, ecologically sustainable cities
“A surprisingly effective model for connecting people with dreams to the resources they need.” —Austin Chronicle
With more than half the world’s population now residing—and struggling...
Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence
| Author | Gregory Cajete |
| ISBN | 1574160419 |
In Native Science, Gregory Cajete "tells the story" of Indigenous science as a way of understanding, experiencing, and feeling the natural world. He points to parallels and differences between the Indigenous science and Western science paradigms, with special emphasis on environmental/ecological...
| Author | Masanobu Fukuoka |
| ISBN | 8185987009 |
This was a very hard book to get through, and not as easy to read as "The Road Back to Nature", but it was one I had to finish because his beliefs are so similar to mine. He put into words, in a way that I never have been able to, exactly why I have always felt closer to God while out there digging in the dirt. Nature...
| Author | Bill Mollison |
| ISBN | 0908228082 |
1995 Reprint, New Edition, Tagari. 216-page Softcover.
Introduction to Permaculture is an updated and revised version of the first two permaculture books, Permaculture One (Mollison and Holmgren, 1978) and Permaculture Two (Mollison, 1979), and replaces them. New material by Bill Mollison...
