Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
10 best books like Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (Richard Heinberg): Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, The God Delusion, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, That Old Cape Magic, Natural Capitalism, Inner Simplicity: 100 Ways to Regain Peace and Nourish Your Soul, The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, Your Child's Strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
| Author | David Sedaris |
| ISBN | 0965904830 |
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn’t...
| Author | Richard Dawkins |
| ISBN | 0618680004 |
A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of belief in God, and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.
With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0143036556 |
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond...
| Author | Bill McKibben |
| ISBN | 0805090568 |
Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.
That new planet is filled with new binds...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 0739318926 |
Following Bridge of Sighs—a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
Griffin...
| Author | Paul Hawken |
| ISBN | 0316353000 |
I chose this book for my reading list this quarter because it is one of the most widely discussed books on the transition from our current unsustainable economic system to a more sustainable system. Natural Capitalism is listed amongst the books on Evergreen’s sustainability webpage, so I thought...
Basically true information. As a 1995 publication about eliminating distraction, the absence of any mention of Internet is noticeable, but that's all right because we don't need to be told that Internet falls into the category of distraction along with social commitments, TV and magazines, bad food...
| Author | James Howard Kunstler |
| ISBN | 0802142494 |
Kunstler is like that super-intelligent, yet vitriolic friend whose opinions you totally jibe with but find yourself apologizing to others after he's totally ripped them a new one at the cocktail party you hosted last saturday night.
Yeah, he's kind of bitter. But then again, he's so right....
| Author | David C. Korten |
| ISBN | 1887208070 |
*Sweeping survey of world history offering a new understanding of the key challenge of our time
*Offers a positive message of hope for a sustainable and just future and a practical strategy for getting there
In The Great Turning, David Korten argues that "Empire," the organization of society...
Your Child's Strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them
| Author | Jenifer Fox |
| ISBN | 0670018767 |
An essential book for parents and teachers that explores how children’s individual strengths create success
With this groundbreaking work, educator Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in this country. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying...
