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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

10 best books like The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (James Howard Kunstler): Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, The Mismeasure of Man, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, Natural Capitalism, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late, The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
AuthorJared Diamond
ISBN0143036556
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...
The Mismeasure of Man
AuthorStephen Jay Gould
ISBN0393314251
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.

How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it" and "Who's asking?"), then The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition...
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
AuthorWilliam McDonough
ISBN0865475873
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing...
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
AuthorBill McKibben
ISBN0805076263
The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our livesIn this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy.

For the...
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
AuthorBill McKibben
ISBN0805090568
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...
Natural Capitalism
AuthorPaul Hawken
ISBN0316353000
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...
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
AuthorPaul Hawken
ISBN0670038520
One of the world’s most influential environmentalists reveals a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity

Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than a...
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
AuthorThom Hartmann
ISBN1400051576
While everything appears to be collapsing around us -- ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars -- we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for...
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
AuthorVan Jones
ISBN0061650757
Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country — the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate,...
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
AuthorRichard Heinberg
The twentieth century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption, and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, the impact of humans on the environment increased dramatically.

The twenty-first century ushered in an era of declines, in a number of...
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
AuthorPaul Roberts
ISBN0618562117
Petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our economy, our politics, and our personal expectations that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail by the most powerful forces in the world: companies and governments that depend on oil revenues; the developing nations that see oil as...
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
AuthorRichard Heinberg
ISBN0865715297
The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex...
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