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  • Subject: Michael's Recommended Reading List (fwd)
  • Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:24:21 -0500 (EST)



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Title: Michael's Recommended Reading List

Books on Sustainable Design

Many of these books were purchased collectively by the staff and interns at Cross Timbers Permaculture Institute while I worked there in late 1995 and early 1996. Since then I've occasionally added new titles.

Many other excellent titles can be found at Green Books, Devon, UK.

  • Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. Helena Norberg-Hodge. Sierra Club Books, 1991.
  • A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests since World War Two. Paul W. Hirt. University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
  • Cornucopia: A Source Book of Edible Plants. Stephen Facciola. Kampong Press, 1990.
  • Ecological Design. Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan. Island Press, 1996.
  • Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Placement. Sarah Rossbach. Penguin Arkana, 1983.
  • The Findhorn Garden. Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation.. The Findhorn Community. HarperPerennial, 1975.
  • Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History. William Woys Weaver. Henry Holt, 1997.
  • How Buildings Learn. What Happens After They're Built. Stewart Brand. Penguin Books, 1994.
  • How to Grow More Vegetables. 5th edition. John Jeavons. Ten Speed Press, 1995.
  • The Living Fields: Our Agricultural Heritage. Jack R. Harlan. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia. Blaine Harden. W.W. Norton and Co., 1996.
  • Seeds of Change: The Living Treasure. Kenny Ausubel. HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.
  • Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Biodiversity. Cary Fowler and Pat Mooney. University of Arizona Press, 1990.
  • Shelter. Shelter Publications, 1973.
  • Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa. Edited by Chris Reij, Ian Scoones and Camilla Toulmin. Earthscan Publications, 1996.
  • Thermal Delight in Architecture. Lisa Heschong. MIT Press, 1979.

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