Books
Aldrich, Rebekkah Smith. Sustainable Thinking: Ensuring Your Library’s Future in an Uncertain World. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2018.
Caradonna, Jeremy L. Sustainability: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Crawford, Matthew B. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work. New York: Penguin Books, 2009.
Dougherty, Dale, and Ariane Conrad. Free to Make: How the Maker Movement Is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2016.
Dryzek, John. The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses. London: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Edgerton, David. The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays, Poems, Addresses. Roslyn, NY: Walter J. Black, 1969.
Franke, Katherine. Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2019.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.
Hall, Don, ed. 10 Stories of Transition in the U.S.: Inspiring Examples of Community Resilience Building. Sebastopol, CA: Transition US, 2019.
Hall, Edith. Aristotle’s Way. London: Penguin Press, 2019.
Hardin, Garrett. Exploring New Ethics for Survival: The Voyage of the Spaceship Beagle. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1973. First published 1972 by Viking Press (New York).
Hawken, Paul, ed. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. New York: Penguin Books, 2017.
Hopkins, Rob. The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. Devon, England: Green Books, 2008.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Random House (The Modern Library edition), 1932.
Jackson, Steven J. (contributor). Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality and Society. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. See esp. chap. 11, “Rethinking Repair.”
Kallen, Stuart A. The War at Home. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2000.
Klinenberg, Eric. Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life. New York: Crown, 2018.
Koren, Leonard. Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 1994.
Kula, Irwin. Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life. New York: Hyperion, 2006.
Lambert, Kelly. Lifting Depression: A Neuroscientist’s Hands-on Approach to Activating Your Brain’s Healing Power. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
Langlands, Alexander. Craeft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts. New York: W.W. Norton, 2018.
Leonard, Annie. The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health, and How We Can Make It Better. New York: Free Press, 2010.
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. New York: Oxford University Press, 1949.
Mazzucato, Mariana. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy. New York: Public Affairs, Hachette Book Group, 2018.
McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. New York: North Point Press, 2002.
Muir, John. My First Summer in the Sierra. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911.
Muir, John. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913.
O’Neill, William L. A Democracy at War: America’s Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1974.
Porter, Beth. Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine: Sorting Out the Recycling System. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Postma, Martine. Weggooien? Mooi niet! (Toss it? I Don’t Think So). Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Genoeg, 2015.
Ray, Paul H., and Sherry Ruth Anderson. The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World. New York: Harmony Books, 2000.
Schnase, Robert. Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations. Nashville: Abington Press, 2007.
Schor, Juliet B. True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small Scale, High Satisfaction Economy. New York: Penguin Books, 2011.
Schuyler, David. Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.
Slade, Giles. Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Sloane, Eric. Diary of an Early American Boy, 1805. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1962.
Sloane, Eric. Return to Taos: Eric Sloane’s Sketchbook of Roadside Americana. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1960.
Spelman, Elizabeth V. Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.
Stewart, Alison. Junk: Digging through America’s Love Affair with Stuff. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2016.
Strasser, Susan. Waste and Want. New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 1999.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Translated and edited by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop.
Williams, Dar. What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding America’s Communities — One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time. New York: Basic Books, 2017.
Williams, Margery. The Velveteen Rabbit. London: George H. Doran, 1922.
Wilson, Katherine. Tinkering: Australians Reinvent DIY Culture. Clayton, Australia: Monash University Publishing, 2017.
Yarrow, Andrew L. Thrift: The History of an American Cultural Movement. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.
Magazine and Journal Articles
Alioto, Daisy. “Eileen Fisher’s Westchester Factory Paves the Way to Sustainable Fashion. Chronogram, May 1, 2019. www.chronogram.com/hudsonvalley/eileen-fishers-westchester-factory-paves-the-way-to-sustainable-fashion/Content?oid=8261726&storyPage=2.
Garthwaite, Betsy. “Restoring Clearwater.” Wooden Boat, no. 253, Nov.–Dec. 2016.
Guldenbrein, Sarah. “Convivial Clothing: Engagement with Decommodified Fashion in Portland, Oregon.” Thesis for MS degree in sociology, Portland State University, June 17, 2019, https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5119/.
Pickworth, Amy, ed. “Repair.” Special issue, Manual: A Journal about Art and Its Making, Issue 11 (Fall 2018). Providence: Rhode Island School of Design.
Sinclair, Jim. “Being Autistic Together.” Disability Studies Quarterly 30, no. 1 (2010), http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1075/1248.
South, Stanley. “Archeological Evidence of Pottery Repairing.” South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers 1967, vol. 2, 1968, 62–71, PDF, https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1180&context=sciaa_staffpub.
Stall-Meadows, Celia. “Weaving Sustainability into Family and Consumer Sciences Education.” Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences Education 28, no. 1 (2010), https://natefacs.org/Pages/v28no1/v28no1Stall-Meadows.pdf.
Wiens, Kyle, and Gay Gordon-Byrne. “Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics.” IEEE Spectrum website. October 24, 2017. https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/conservation/why-we-must-fight-for-the-right-to-repair-our-electronics.
Wilson, Louise. “Fixing the Future: A Study of the Repair Café Culture.” Dissertation for BSc degree, Swansea University, 2018.
Film Resource
Bowermaster, Jon, executive producer. Restoring the Clearwater. Oceans 8 Films, 2018.
Online Resources
Aldo Leopold Foundation. aldoleopold.org.
AOGHS.org editors. “First American Oil Well.” American Oil and Gas Historical Society website, March 24, 2013. aoghs.org/petroleum-pioneers/american-oil-history/.
Botsman, Rachel. “The Currency of the New Economy Is Trust.” Filmed September 2012. TED Talk Global, 19:31, www.ted.com/talks/rachel_botsman_the_currency_of_the_new_economy_is_trust/up-next.
Federal Trade Commission. “Nixing the Fix: A Workshop on Repair Restrictions.” July 16, 2019. www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/nixing-fix-workshop-repair-restrictions [description and full video].
IRP. Re-defining Value: The Manufacturing Revolution. Remanufacturing, Refurbishment, Repair and Direct Reuse in the Circular Economy. Nabil Nasr, Jennifer Russell, Stefan Bringezu, Stefanie Hellweg, Brian Hilton, Cory Kreiss, and Nadia von Gries. Nairobi, Kenya: International Resource Panel, United Nations Environment Programme, 2018. Available at www.resourcepanel.org/reports/re-defining-value-manufacturing-revolution.
McConnell, Austin. “Ink Cartridges Are a Scam.” YouTube. March 15, 2018. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHX6tHdQGiQ.
Motherboard. “How iFixit Became the World’s Best iPhone Teardown Team.” YouTube. February 15, 2018. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx-9LkVIdz0.
“Poor Richard’s Almanack.” Ben Franklin Historical Society website. www.benjamin-franklin-history.org/poor-richards-almanac.
Portland Repair Finder. www.portlandrepairfinder.com.
UN Documents. “Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future.” 1987. http://www.un-documents.net/ocf-02.htm#I.
World Economic Forum, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and McKinsey & Company. Towards the Circular Economy. Published annually, 2012–2014. vol. 1 (2012), An Economic and Business Rationale for an Accelerated Transition; vol. 2 (2013), Opportunities for the Consumer Goods Sector; Vol. 3 (2014), Accelerating the Scale-up across Global Supply Chains; and Completing the Picture: How the Circular Economy Tackles Climate Change (2019). All available at www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/publications.