Currently Reading
The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology, by Mark Boyle
Favorites
Here is a running list of my favorite nonfiction writing. Favorites are bolded. They are not ordered.
Books
- Climate—A New Story – Charles Eisenstein
- Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet – Tom Murphy – my review
- After Cooling—On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort – Eric Dean Wilson
- Small is Beautiful – E. F. Schumacher
- The Business of Less—The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril – Roland Geyer
- Being the Change—Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution – Peter Kalmus (read free online)
- Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
Books About Trees
- A Natural History of North American Trees – Donald Culross Peattie. A legendary American tree tome, poetic and evocative.
- The Urban Tree Book – Arthur Plotnik. Written by a writer, not a scientist, with much zest and humor.
- White Pine – John Pastor. Gorgeous deep dive into the ecology and history of a tree that has been deeply involved in the story of this country.
- The Trees in My Forest – Bernd Heinrich. (Every Heinrich book I’ve read so far ends up being at least a little bit about trees.)
Essays and Articles
- Taming the Greedocracy – Jag Bhalla, Current Affairs
- TikTok’s Enshittification – Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic
- Beyond Accumulation and Technical Progress: Negative Externalities as an Engine of Economic Growth – Stefano Bartolini – my review
- What is Ecological Economics? – Robert Costanza
- Reading Peter Singer’s ‘Famine, Affluence, and Morality’ 50 years later – Paige Cromley, The Daily Princetonian
- Environmentalism Was Once a Social-Justice Movement – Jedediah Britton-Purdy
- Famine, Affluence, and Morality – Peter Singer
- Why Worry About Collapse? – Tom Murphy, Resilience.org
- The Climate Movement Must Be Ready to Challenge Right-Wing Environmentalism – Sam Knights, Jacobin
- Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’ – Jonathan Watts, The Guardian
- Climate Activist Peter Kalmus’s Life Is Kinda Rough, Actually – Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica (title my own)
- A Mathematician’s Lament – Paul Lockhart
- What Is Existentialism? – Bob Corbett (Link to my archived copy, as his original site is down)
Magazines
- The Last Straw – Natural building magazine
- Communities – Intentional communities magazine
- Low Tech Magazine
- Current Affairs magazine
Blogs
- Fox Holler Almanac – Benjamin Bramble
- Tommy Botany – Tomás Todisco
- Carbon Upfront! – Lloyd Alter
- B. Lorraine Smith
- Robin Greenfield’s blog
- Laura Killingbeck’s blog
- Happily, Hayden – Hayden Kessinger
- Live from California with Lloyd Kahn
- Environ/mental – Dan Vekhter (and also his blog)
- Do The Math – Tom Murphy
- This Sustainable Life – Joshua Spodek
- The Meaning of Water – Nina Munteanu
- Energy Skeptic – Alice Friedemann
- Bob Corbett
- Artist as Family – Artist as Family
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