Recommended Books

Business:

Capitalism As If The World Matters, Revised Edition 2007 – Jonathon Porritt
The Economics Of Climate Change: The Stern Review, 2007 - Sir Nicholas Stern
Cradle To Cradle: Remaking The Way Awe Make Things, 2002 – Williams McDonough, Michael Braungart
The Ecology Of Commerce: A Declaration Of Sustainability, March 2008 – Paul Hawken
The Party’s Over: Oil, War And The Fate Of Industrial Societies, 2003 – Richard Heinberg
Affluenza, 2007 – Oliver James
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature, 1997 – Jan Benyus
Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest With The Public Good, 2003 – Stephen Young
IPCC Report Climate Change 2007 The 4th Assessment Report, 2007 - online www.ipcc.ch
Ecosystems And Human Wellbeing: Opportunities And Challenges For Business and Industry, the 4th Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report – online www.millenniumassessment.org
Take It Personally: How Globalization Affects You And Powerful Ways To Challenge It, 2001 – Anita Roddick
It Doesn’t Have To Be Like This, 2002 – Margaret Legum
The Great Turning: From Empire To Earth Community, 2007 – David Korten
Reinventing Paradise, 2007 – Rod Oram

Environmental:

An Inconvenient Truth, 2006 – Al Gore
Heat: How To Stop The Planet From Burning, 2007 – George Monbiot
When The Rivers Run Dry: What Happens When Our Water Runs Out? 2007 – Fred Pearce
Power Down: Options And Actions For A Post-Carbon World, 2004 – Richard Heinberg
Vital Signs 2007-2008: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future, 2007 – The Worldwatch Institute
High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis, 2004 – Mark Lynas
Six Degrees: Our Future On A Hotter Planet, 2007 - Mark Lynas
A Short History Of Progress, 2004 – Ronald Wright
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference, 2000 – Malcolm Gladwell
Carbon Neutral by 2020: How New Zealanders Can Tackle Climate Change, 2007 – Edited by Niki Harré and Quentin D Atkinson
Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed, 2005 – Jared Diamond
Field Notes From A Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change, Revised Edition 2007 – Elizabeth Kolbert
Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future, 2005, John D Cox
The Revenge Of Gaia: Earth;s Climate Crisis And The Fate of Humanity, 2007 – James Lovelock

Community:

Blessed Unrest: How The Largest Movement In The World Came Into Being And Why No One Saw It Coming, 2007 – Paul Hawken
The Long Emergency: Surviving The End Of Oil, Climate Change And Other Converging Catastrophes Of The Twenty-First Century, 2005 – James Howard Kunstler
Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision With Nature, 2006 – Mark Edwards, Lloyd Timberlake

General:

Presence: An Exploration Of Profound Change In People, Organisations and Society, 2005 – Peter Senge, C Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers
The Upside Of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity And The Renewal of Civilization, 2006 – Thomas Homer- Dixon
Priceless: The Vanishing Beauty Of A Fragile Planet, 2002 – Bradley Trevor Greive
Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals And The Nature Of Feeling Good, 2006 – Jonathan Balcombe