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Here are my favorite resources: books, films, organizations, and news sources I and my colleagues at the Plum Village Earth Holder Sangha recommend to help you cultivate eco-mindfulness and take loving and effective Earth-healing action.

Non-Fiction Books

  • Diane Ackerman, The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us (W.W. Norton and Company, 2014)
  • Edited by Allan Hunt Badiner, Mindfulness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Responses to Consumerism (Parallax Press, 2002)
  • Gerardo Ceballos and Anne H. Ehrlich Annihilation of Nature: A clarion call for engagement and action to stop the 6th great extinction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)
  • Jonathan M. Cullen and Julian M. Allwood, Sustainable Materials with Both Eyes Open: Without the Hot Air (UIT Cambridge, 2012)
  • Patrick Curry, Ecological Ethics: An Introduction (Polity Press, 2008)
  • Jared Duval, The Next Generation Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2010)
  • Charles Einstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible: Sacred Activism (North Atlantic Books, 2013)
  • Duane Elgin, Voluntary Simplicity (Harper, 2010)
  • Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage (Yale University Press, 2006)
  • Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth (Grove Press, 2005)
  • Matthew Fox, The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for our Time (HarperOne, 1995)
  • Herbert Girardet and Miguel Mendonca, A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality (Green Books, 2009)
  • Paul Gilding, The Great Disruption: How the Climate Crisis will Change Everything for the Better (Bloomsbury Press, 2011)

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  • Thich Nhat Hanh, The Diamond that Cuts through Illusion: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Diamond Sutra (Parallax Press, 1992)
  • Thich Nhat Hanh, Love Letter to the Earth (Parallax Press, 2013)
  • Thich Nhat Hanh, The World We Have (Parallax Press, 2008)
  • James Hansen, Storms of My Grandchildren: Descriptions of the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity (Bloomsbury USA, 2010)
  • Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Little, Brown and Co, 2010)
  • Mark Hertsgaard, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth (Mariner Books, 2012)
  • Randolph Hester, Design for Ecological Democracy (MIT Press, 2006)
  • Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Simon and Schuster, 2015)
  • Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Henry Holt & Co, February 2014)
  • David Korten, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Communities (Kumarian Press, October 2007)
  • Anna Lappe, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can do About It (Bloomsbury, 2010)
  • Frances Moore Lappe, EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want (Nation Books, September 2011)
  • Laurie Lawlor, This Tender Place: The Story of a Wetland Year (University Press Wisconsin, September 2005)
  • Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (Oxford University Press, 2001)
  • John Daido Loori, Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds (Harvard University Press, 1998)
  • John Daido Loori, Teachings of the Earth: Zen and the Environment (Shambhala Publications, 1999)
  • Richard Louv, The Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Algonquin Books, April 2008)
  • Amory Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2013)
  • Joanna Macy, World as Lover, World as Self (Parallax Press, 1991)
  • Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown, Coming Back to Life (New Society Publishers, 1998)
  • Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy (New World Library, March 2012)
  • Joel Makower, Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in the New World of Business (McGraw-Hill, 2008)
  • Heather Lyn Mann, Ocean of Insight: A Sailor’s Voyage from Despair to Hope (Parallax Press, October 2016)
  • Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard (Penguin classics, September 2008)
  • William McDonough, Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability: Designing for Abundance (North Point Press, 2013)
  • Bill McKibben, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet  (Times Books, April 2010)
  • Bill McKibben, Oil and Honey: The education of an unlikely activist (St Martin’s Griffin, 2014)
  • Zachia Murray, Mindfulness in the Garden: Zen Tools for Digging in the Dirt (Parallax Press, 2012)
  • Christian Parenti, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (Nation Books, 2012)
  • Mary Pipher, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture (Riverhead Trade, June 2013)
  • William Powers, Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream (New World Library, May 2010)
  • Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence (Penguin Books, 2008)
  • Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild (Counterpoint; expanded edition August 17, 2010)
  • Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Stories, Wild Possibilities (Nation Books, 2004)
  • Edited by John Stanley, David R. Loy, and Gyurme Dorje, A Buddhist Response to THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY (Wisdom Publications, 2009)
  • Sustainable World Coalition, Sustainable World Sourcebook: Critical issues, Inspiring Solutions, Resources for Action, the Essential Guidebook for the Concerned Citizen (Vinti Allen, 2014)
  • Henry David Thoreau, Walden (Simon and Brown, March 2011)
  • Edited by Llewelly Vaughan-Lee, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth (the Golden Sufi Center, 2013)
  • Jay Walljasper, All that We Share (New Press, 2010)
  • Edited by Claude Whitmyer, Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood (Parallax Press, 1994)
  • Meg Wheatley, So Far From Home: Lost and Found in Our Brave New World (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, October 2012)
  • Andrew Winston, The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014)

Fiction

  • Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior: A Novel (Harper, 2012)
  • Cormac McCarthy, The Road (Vintage Books, 2006)
  • Paolo Bacigalupi, Wind Up Girl (Night Shade Books, 2010)

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Climate Information Sources

 SANGHAS

  • The Community of Mindful Living offers an easy way to find the closest sangha near you. http://www.mindfulnessbell.org/directory.php
  • If there are no sangha near you, you can start one! Sangha-in-a-Box is available from the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation for practitioners who commit to beginning a sangha.  It is offered free of charge to those who request but a small dana offering is appreciated  to cover costs too.  Learn more at http://www.thichnhathanhfoundation.org/#!sangha-building-resources/c1umb
  • The Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation coordinates dana and fundraising for the Plum Village community. The Foundation offers several opportunities for funding support for sanghas to organize events, bring dharma Teachers to their communities, and other activities.  Learn more at http://www.thichnhathanhfoundation.org/

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