APPENDIX

Recommended Books and Films

Collapse

Carolyn Baker, Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times

William Catton, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change and Bottleneck: Humanity’s Pending Impasse

Collapse, a documentary film about Michael Ruppert

Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

John Michael Greer, The Long Descent: A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future

Dmitry Orlov, The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivor’s Toolkit

Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies

What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, a film by Timothy Bennett and Sally Erickson

Financial Issues

Hal Brill, Michael Kramer, and Christopher Peck, The Resilient Investor: A Plan for Your Life, Not Just Your Money

Amy Cortese, Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It

Carol Peppe Hewitt, Financing Our Foodshed: Growing Local Food with Slow Money

Michael H. Shuman, Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity; The Local Economy Solution: How Innovative, Self-Financing “Pollinator” Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity

Woody Tasch, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing As If Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered

Elizabeth Ü, Raising Dough: The Complete Guide to Financing a Socially Responsible Food Business

The Global Food Situation

Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Lester Brown, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

Raymond De Young and Thomas Princen, The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift

Richard Heinberg, “Fifty Million Farmers,” Resilience.org

Wes Jackson, Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture

Fred Kirschenmann, Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher

Anna Lappe, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It

Bill McKibben, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

Gary Nabhan, Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food

Michael Pollan, Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food and Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

Mark Winne, Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin’ Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture

Permaculture

Philip Ackerman-Leist, Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems

Peter Bane, The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country

Darren J. Doherty and Andrew Jeeves, Regrarians eHandbook

Ben Falk, The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach

David Holmgren, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability

Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher

Gary Paul Nabhan, Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land: Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty

Mark Shepard, Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers

Restoring Soil

Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield, Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making

David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations

Kristin Ohlson, The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet

Judith D. Schwartz, Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth