By Susan Utell, Bo Boudart, Bullfrog Films
Marine toxicologist Dr. Riki Ott, who helped fishing communities hit by the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon spills, creates a civics course to help young activists become effective.
By Bill McKibben, Palgrave Macmillan
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Local Futures
This short film introduces the issue to a broad audience in a catchy, humorous way, and a detailed factsheet covers the extent and harm of insane trade in greater depth and encourages people to take positive action towards supporting local economies.
By David R. Montgomery, W.W. Norton
In Growing a Revolution, geologist David R. Montgomery travels the world, meeting farmers at the forefront of an agricultural movement to restore soil health.
By Xavier Poux, Pierre-Marie Aubert, IDDRI
Jointly addressing the challenges of ensuring sustainable food for Europeans, protecting biodiversity and natural resources, and mitigating climate change calls for a profound transition in our agri-food system.
By Jason Bradford, Post Carbon Institute
The Future is Rural challenges the conventional wisdom about the future of food in our modern, globalized world.
By Gary Paul Nabhan, Island Press
In Food from the Radical Center, Gary Nabhan tells the stories of diverse communities who are getting their hands dirty and bringing back North America's unique fare: bison, sturgeon, camas lilies, ancient grains, turkeys, and more.
By Peter A. Victor, Edward Elgar Publishing
Ten years after the publication of the first edition of this influential book, the evidence is even stronger that human economies are overwhelming the regenerative capacity of the planet.
By Fred Provenza, Chelsea Green
In Nourishment Provenza presents his thesis of the wisdom body, a wisdom that links flavor-feedback relationships at a cellular level with biochemically rich foods to meet the body’s nutritional and medicinal needs.
By Kai Kuhnhenn, Heinrich Boell Stiftung
Climate change mitigation scenarios are important instruments for developing pathways towards a climate-friendly world. They form the basis for political and social negotiations regarding the climate protection measures to be adopted.
By Matthieu Auzanneau, Chelsea Green
The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, and destruction. It is the story of a resource that has been undeniably central to the creation of our modern culture, and ever-present during the darkest exploits of empire the world over.
By Michael Hudson, Islet
In …and forgive them their debts, renowned professor of economics, Michael Hudson – and one of the few who could see the 2008 financial crisis coming – takes us on an epic journey through the economies of ancient civilizations.
Bullfrog Films
Looks at the influential work of David Fleming, who dared to re-imagine a thriving civilization after the collapse of our current mainstream economies and inspired the Transition Towns movement.
RARE
During the UN-led Convention on Biological Diversity - Conference of the Parties (CBD COP) in 2018, a new report was released of 338 community-based solutions to help farmers and other agricultural practitioners adopt ecologically-friendly practices that protect biodiversity.
By Gabe Brown, Chelsea Green Publishing
In Dirt to Soil Gabe Brown tells the story of that amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to our most pressing and complex contemporary agricultural challenge—restoring the soil.
By Emanuele Coccia, Polity Books
In this book, philosopher Emanuele Coccia argues that, as the very creator of atmosphere, plants occupy the fundamental position from which we should analyze all elements of life.
Presencing Institute
The September 2018 live session dove into detail about awareness-based systems change: an approach to leading profound change in social systems, that focuses on creating new outcomes by facilitating shifts in consciousness for the stakeholders in a system.
By Nathan Schneider, Hachette Books
The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback.
By Kelvin Campbell, Chelsea Green Publishing
The key to fixing our broken patterns of urban development does not lie in grand plans or giant projects; rather, it lies in the collective wisdom and energy of people harnessing the power of many small ideas and actions to make a big difference. We call this making “Massive Small” change.
By Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, Josh Hoxie, Institute for Policy Studies
At a time of staggering inequality, wealthy individuals are using donor-advised funds, or DAFs, to claim substantial tax benefits, while often failing to move funds in a timely manor to independent nonprofits addressing urgent social needs.
By Ann Pettifor, Verso Books
In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system.
By Michael Phillips, Chelsea Green Publishing
Regenerative practices for the farm, garden, orchard, forest, and landscape