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Books and References
Here are some important books. Please let us know what else should be included
on this list! E-mail info@oceanarks.org.
Click on a book for purchasing information from Amazon.
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Visionaries
of the 20th Century; a Resurgence Anthology, edited
by Satish Kumar and Freddie Whitefield. 2007. |
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Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design,
by Nancy Jack Todd. 2005. Island Books.
Green Living, Architecture and Sustainable
Design.
Ecodesign:
Des Solutions Pour La Planete, by Nancy Jack Todd.
2007. Ecosociete, Montreal. |
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From
Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Principles of Ecological Design,
by Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd. 1994. North Atlantic Books.
Exploring the frontier of ecological design. |
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Dynamic
Aquaria: Building Living Ecosystems, by Walter Adey and Karen
Loveland. 1998. Academic Press. San Diego.
In-depth biology and ecology of aquatic ecosystems. |
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Freshwater
Aquaculture, by William McLarney. 1998. Hartley & Marks.
Vancouver, BC.
An authority on aquaculture. |
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Constructed
Wetlands in the Sustainable Landscape, by C. Campbell and Michael
Ogden. 1999. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
How to design and engineer constructed wetlands. |
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The
Real Goods Solar Living Source Book, edited by Doug Pratt.
1999 (Tenth Edition). Chelsea Green. White River Junction, Vermont.
Technologies for living under the sun. |
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Permaculture:
A Designer's Manual, by Bill Mollison. 1988. Tagari Publications.
Tyalgum, Australia.
Permanent Agriculture. Food production and landscaping in harmony with
nature. |
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Ecological
Design, by Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan. 1996. Island Press.
Design principles for building a more efficient, less toxic, healthier,
and more sustainable world. |
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How
to Grow Fresh Air: 50 Houseplants that Purify Your Home or Office,
by Bill Wolverton. 1996. Penguin Books.
Plants for addressing the "Sick Building Syndrome". |
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The
Toilet Papers: Recycling Waste and Conserving Water, by Sim
Van der Ryn. 1978. Ecological Design Press. Distributed by Chelsea
Green.
Small-scale wastewater treatment strategies. |
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Holistic
Management: A New Framework for Decision Making, by Allan Savory
with Jody Butterfield. 1998. Island Press.
A systems approach to management. Broader applications developed from Holistic
Resource Management dealing with rangeland: "Yes, you can have more
cows and better pasture!" |
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Biomimicry:
Innovation Inspired by Nature, by Janine Benyus. 1997. William
Morrow & Co., New York.
The high-tech and elegant designs of the natural world are models for smarter
human technologies. |
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The
Web of Life, by Fritjof Capra. 1996. Doubleday Dell Publishing
Group. New York.
Toward an understanding of living systems through a synthesis of ideas
such as systems thinking and complexity, Gaia theory, and chaos theory.
A thorough discussion of the emerging paradigm. |
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Ecological
Literacy, by David Orr. 1992. State University of New York
Press. Albany.
Given the limits of Earth, what should people know and how should they
learn it? |
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Natural
Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul
Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins. 1999. Little, Brown, and Co.,
Boston.
The emerging economic paradigm transforming the world of business. See: www.natcap.org/ |
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Gaviotas:
A Village to Reinvent the World, by Alan Weisman. 1998. Chelsea
Green Publishing. White River Junction, Vermont.
A book of hope about a community in Columbia that virtually invented the
concept of sustainable development. |
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Valuing
the Earth: Economics, Ecology, and Ethics, edited by Herman
Daly and Kenneth Townsend. 1994. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A collection of classic essays from people like Paul Ehrlich, Garrett Hardin,
and E.F. Schumacher. |
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The
Lorax, by Dr. Seuss. 1971. Random House.
"We were all knitting Thneeds, just as busy as bees, to the sound
of the chopping, of Truffula Trees." |
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The
Man Who Planted Trees, by Jean Giono. 1995. The Harvill Press.
London.
A sequel to the Lorax. It's helpful to remind ourselves that we can indeed
repair the damage done to nature. |
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Our
Ecological Footprint, by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees.
1994. New Society Publishers.
Tools for reducing the human impact on Earth. |
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Water:
A Natural History, by Alice Outwater. 1996. Harper Collins.
New York.
Chronicling the decline of water quality in North America, and rediscovering
how the land cleans its own water. |
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Garden
of Microbial Delights, By Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis. 1988.
Harcourt Brace Javanovich.
A practical guide to the subdivisible world. Explore the beauty, mystery
and splendor of microbes and "the parallel universe within our midst." Out
of print, so buy a copy when you find one. |
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The
Microcosmos Coloring Book, by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.
1988. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
A sophisticated coloring book with spectacular illustrations that offer
a facinating introduction to the microbial world. Out of print, but well
worth the search. |
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Chattanooga
Sludge, by Molly Bang. 1996. A Gulliver Green Book. Harcourt
Brace.
A wonderful children's book describing an experiment John Todd conducted
to clean up toxins in Chattanooga Creek. Out of print, unfortunately. |
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By
Nature's Design, by Pat Murphy. 1993. Chronicle Books. San
Francisco.
Beautiful images of the patterns within nature. Spirals & helixes,
branching, packing
& cracking. |
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Fractals:
The Patterns of Chaos, by John Briggs. 1992. Simon & Schuster.
New York.
Beautifully illustrated book that explains the significance and beauty
of fractals by blending together chaos theory, fractal geometry, and art. |
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Pond,
Lake, River, Sea, by Maryjo Koch. 1998. Swans Island Books.
Smithmark Publishers, New York.
Expressive watercolor illustrations and handwritten text introduces the
reader to the family of life found in the underwater world. |
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The
Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation,
by Brian Nattrass & Mary Altomare. 1999. New Society Publishers.
An emerging economic model for sustainability, offering opportunities for
reducing costs, increasing employee loyalty, and gaining competitive advantage
while improving the health of the planet and people. |
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The
Humanure Handbook, by Joseph Jenkins and Tom Griffin. 1999.
Jenkins Publications.
A guide to composting human manure. |
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Gaia's
Garden, by Toby Hemenway. 2001. Chelsea Green Pub Co.
A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. |
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Sensitive
Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air, by Theodor
Schwenk, J. Collins (Transl.). 1990. Anthroposophic Press.
More than ever before, today we need "water consciousness" and
we can begin with this essential and classic book on water as the universal
bearer of living, formative processes. |
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| The
Ecology of Commerce. Hawken, Paul. 1993. Harper Collins.
New York. |
| Factor
Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use. Weizsacker, E.V.,
A.B. Lovins, and L.H. Lovins. 1997. Earthscan Publications, Ltd., London. |
| Regenerative
Design for Sustainable Development. Lyle, J.T. 1994. John Wiley & Sons,
New York. |
| Green
Architecture. Wines, James 2000. Taschen America, LLC |
| A
Primer on Sustainable Building. Barnett, D.L. 1998. Rocky Mountain
Institute, Snowmass, CO. |
| Design
with Nature. McHarg, Ian. 1992. John Wiley & Sons, New
York. |
| Green
Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate. Wilson, A.,
J.L. Uncapher, L. McManigal, L.H. Lovins, M. Cureton, and W.D. Browning.
1998. John Wiley & Sons, New York. |
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Outlaws on the Ecological Frontier. Zelev, C., and P. Coussineau.
1997. Knossus Publishing, Philadelphia. |
| Eco-pioneers. Lerner,
S. 1997. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. |
| The
Last Ranch. Bingham, Sam. 1996. Harcourt Brace & Company.
(about Holistic Resource Management) |
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