Widening Circles: A Memoir
10 best books like Widening Circles: A Memoir (Joanna Macy): Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism, The Way of the White Clouds, Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story, The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties, Speaking of Faith, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation, Strandloper
Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works
| Author | Atina Diffley |
| ISBN | 0816677719 |
When the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesn’t compare it to golf balls. She’s a farmer. It’s “as big as a B-size potato.” As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds; the eleven-inch rainfall...
| Author | Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee |
Showing the deep connection between our present ecological crisis and our lack of awareness of the sacred nature of creation, this series of essays from spiritual and environmental leaders around the world shows how humanity can transform its relationship with the Earth. Combining the thoughts...
Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism
| Author | George Sessions |
| ISBN | 1570620490 |
Every day, in newspapers and on television, we read and hear about the ongoing destruction of the environment: the greenhouse effect, ozone layer depletion, deforestation, and air and water pollution. Deep Ecology offers a solution to the environmental crisis through a radical shift in human consciousness--a...
The Way of the White Clouds
| Author | Lama Anagarika Govinda |
"A devoted Buddhist and a spokesman for Tibetan culture, Lama Anagarika Govinda was one of the last foreigners to journey through Tibet before the Chinese invasion of 1950. Govinda's luminous and candid account is a spectacular and gloriously poetic story of exploration and discovery, and a sensitive...
| Author | Sera Beak |
| ISBN | 1622030532 |
When one person dares to speak her truth, it challenges us all to live our own. With Red Hot and Holy, Sera Beak offers a provocative and intimate view of what it means to get up close and personal with the divine in modern times.
With a rare combination of audacious wit, scholarly acumen, and tender...
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
| Author | Krista Tippett |
| ISBN | 0670038350 |
The host of public radio’s Speaking of Faith explores the role of faith in the world and in human life today Krista Tippett is the creator and host of public radio’s phenomenally popular program Speaking of Faith, a weekly conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. As a journalist...
Before they were taken over by politically correct left coast weenies Foremans Earth First! was a very cool thing. They were "redneck hippies" who had a love for American wilderness and took radical steps to conserve it. Written after the FBI's attempt to set him up on bogus charges and after he left EF!...
| Author | Angel Kyodo Williams |
| ISBN | 1623170982 |
Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening.
The...
| Author | Alan Garner |
| ISBN | 1860461611 |
I sing the eagle.
"Bone of the Cloud. The Clashing Rock.
The Hard Darkness."
It hangs above the grave mound.
I sing, dreaming...
William Buckley was transported to Australia in 1801. He escaped and lived as an Aborigine for thirty-one years. In this visionary novel, Alan...
Many of us feel called to respond to the ecological destruction of our planet, yet we feel overwhelmed, immobilized, and unable to deal realistically with the threats to life on Earth. Noted spiritual and environmental thinkers Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown contend that this crippling response...
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth/Healing the Mind
| Author | Theodore Roszak |
| ISBN | 0871564068 |
This pathfinding collection has become a seminal text for the burgeoning ecopsychology movement, which has brought key new insights to environmentalism and revolutionized modern psychology. Its writers show how the health of the planet is inextricably linked to the psychological health of humanity,...
The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
| Author | Thomas Berry |
| ISBN | 0609804995 |
Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever undertake....
| Author | Paul Shepard |
| ISBN | 1559635908 |
Paul Shepard (1925-1996) was a human ecologist and a turbocharged original thinker who spent his life trying to understand (a) how ordinary animals like us managed to evolve into a highly destructive swarm, and (b) what we could do to correct this. Genetic evolution is the primary engine of change for...
| Author | Eknath Easwaran |
| ISBN | 1586380958 |
Over-scheduled, always tired, struggling with the pull of the online world – that’s how many of us feel right now. Training a frazzled mind to embrace calm isn’t easy. For over forty years, Easwaran dedicated himself to teaching meditation and the wisdom of slowing down. When the mind is unhurried,...
| Author | Bernard Glassman |
| ISBN | 0517888297 |
A nice follow-up to the movie "How to Cook Your Life". I like the practicality of Zen. The stories about creating social sustainability from the ingredients at hand were truly inspiring. I'll look to the wisdom in this book to bring me right back where I need to be when I get wound up and overwhelmed. Some...
| Author | David Gessner |
| ISBN | 1571313249 |
In My Green Manifesto, David Gessner embarks on a rough-and-tumble journey down Boston’s Charles River, searching for the soul of a new environmentalism. With a tragically leaky canoe, a broken cell phone, a cooler of beer, and the environmental planner Dan Driscoll in tow, Gessner grapples with...
Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future
| Author | Hank Wesselman |
| ISBN | 0553378376 |
"I am about to tell you a most unusual story, a chronicle of something that happened to me while I was living on the flank of an active volcano on the island of Hawai'i. I'm a scientist. I mention this because I do not feel that I was in any way predisposed for what was about to occur. In fact, my scientific...
The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience
Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940. In 1960, she won a Kennedy scholarship to study in America and earned a master's degree in biology from the University of Pittsburgh and became the first woman in East Africa to earn a Ph.D.
Returning to Kenya in 1966, Wangari Maathai was shocked...
Loving and Leaving the Good Life
| Author | Helen Nearing |
| ISBN | 0930031636 |
Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other bestselling books, lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100. Loving and Leaving the Good Life is Helen's testimonial to their life together and to what they stood for: self-sufficiency, generosity, social justice,...
| Author | M.F.K. Fisher |
| ISBN | 0394713486 |
M.F.K. Fisher only came on my radar this year, and I didn't pick her up to read until I heard part of her essay about canning, and her earliest memory of jam-skin. She is one of the great foremothers of food writing, in fact there is even an award named after her for excellence in culinary writing.
I'm...
Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography
| Author | Huston Smith |
| ISBN | 0061154261 |
“In this delightful autobiography, Smith tells us how he became the dean of world religion experts. Along the way we meet the people who shaped him and shared his journey—a Who’s Who of 20th century spiritual America: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary,...
Grace & Grit: Spirituality & Healing in the Life & Death of Treya Killam Wilber
| Author | Ken Wilber |
| ISBN | 1570627428 |
My dear cousin lent me her copy of this book a few months back and at the time told me it was one of her all-time favorite books -- now after completing it myself -- I completely understand why.
This has to be one of the most emotionally touching and spiritually rewarding books I have ever read. As well...
| Author | Kenneth Branagh |
| ISBN | 0312058225 |
A readable, engaging and insightful account. Chicago TribuneBreezy, high-spirited, interesting... New York NewsdayIn Beginning, Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh charts the ups and downs of a life in acting - a young career that has made him the most acclaimed actor of his generation. Opening...
Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space: What You Are Before You Became
Brilliant Illuminations for Awakening to the Absolute
What if all that you believe yourself to be—your body, mind, emotions, and conditioning—is actually what you are not? What if this is merely a self-portrait shaped by false identification, habit, and assumptions?
In ever-growing...
