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Picture Books

These books show the beauty of the world and the things that we can build in it.

Earth To Spirit: In Search Of Natural Architecture, by David Pearson

Design Techniques And Philosophies

How are people actually creating buildings that require few resources to operate, that mesh well with the land and its creatures, and that are a pleasure to live and work in?

The Earthship Books, by Michael Reynolds
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual, by Bill Mollison
The Cob Builders' Handbook by Becky Bee
The Integral Urban House, by the Farallones Institute
The Straw Bale House, by Athena Steen, Bill Steen, and David Bainbridge, with David Eisenberg
The Solar Electric House, by Steven J Strong with William G Scheller
Form, Function, And Design, by Paul Jacques Grillo
UTOpia, by Jason McBride and Alana Wilcox
Building Science for a Cold Climate, by Neil B Hutcheon and Gustav O P Handegord
The Hand-Sculpted House, by Ianto Evans, Michael G Smith, and Linda Smiley
Photovoltaics Design And Installation Manual, by Solar Energy International

Magazines

Whole Earth Review
Permaculture Activist

Ecological and Utopian Fiction

Nightmares of futures to avoid, dreams of better worlds to embrace, and the steps that might take us to either....

The Fifth Sacred Thing, by Starhawk
YV88, by Christopher Swan and Chet Roaman
Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging, by Ernest Callenbach
Copernick's Rebellion, by Leo A Frankowski

Deeper Inquiry

Where does Humanity end and Nature begin? And what of the things we have constructed? These books look at this from a number of different viewpoints, and contemplate what may happen in the future...

Metaman, by Gregory Stock
Out Of Control: the Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization, by Kevin Kelly
The Age of Spiritual Machines, by Ray Kurzweil
The Skeptical Environmentalist, by Bjørn Lomborg

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