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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

10 best books like Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paul Stamets): The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture, Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 1: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture, Nature, Man and Woman, The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0684827123
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment...
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
AuthorPaul Hawken
ISBN0143130447
- New York Times bestseller -

The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world

"At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution...
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
AuthorRobin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN0870714996
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's...
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture
AuthorToby Hemenway
ISBN1890132527
Permaculture is a verbal marriage of "permanent" and "agriculture." Australian Bill Mollison pioneered its development. Key features include:

- use of compatible perennials;
- non-invasive planting techniques;
- emphasis on biodiversity;
- specifically adaptable to...
Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families
AuthorThomas J. Elpel
ISBN1892784076
A comprehensive reference to more than 100 plant families and over 700 genera of North American plants, Botany in a Day provides simple, easily learned tools to assist in plant identification. Line drawings highlight family characteristics, and plant entries discuss medicinal uses, edibility,...
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
AuthorTerence McKenna
ISBN0553371304
This book is trash.

I picked up this book because of an interest in drug culture and history. The premise sounds interesting enough: we stopped doing shrooms and got worse as a society.

I'll summarize the book in case the premise sounds interesting to you, so you can get the gist without...
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
AuthorMichael Pollan
ISBN0241294223
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness

When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp...
Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 1: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture
AuthorDave Jacke
ISBN1931498792
Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic ecological principles that make...
Nature, Man and Woman
AuthorAlan W. Watts
ISBN0679732330
A provocative and enduring work that reexamines humanity's place in the natural world -- and the spirit's relation to the flesh -- in the light of Chinese Taoism.

That human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled, that the mind is somehow superior to the body, and that all...
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
AuthorStefano Mancuso
ISBN1501187856
Do plants have intelligence? Do they have memory? Are they better problem solvers than people? Plant Revolution—a fascinating, paradigm-shifting work that upends everything you thought you knew about plants—makes a compelling scientific case that these and other astonishing ideas are all...
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
AuthorJeff Lowenfels
ISBN0881927775
Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy...
The One-Straw Revolution
AuthorMasanobu Fukuoka
ISBN8185569312
I legally downloaded the book in PDF form from http://www.soilandhealth.org/

This book made me realize that something else is possible.

The author writes that he is a farmer in Japan who gets rice yields that meet or eclipse the most highly productive regions in Japan, yet he:
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