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Great Books: What is the Power of Ideas?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.::
  • The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right (with John Cronin)
  • Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
  • Saint Francis of Assisi: A Life of Joy (for children)
William McDonough and Michael Braungart:
  • Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Paul Krugman:
  • The Conscience of a Liberal
  • The Great Unraveling: Loosing Our Way in the New Century
Robert Reich:
  • Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
Rachel Carson:
  • Silent Spring
Joseph Stiglitz:
  • The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (with Linda Bilmes)
  • Globalization and Its Discontents
Dylan Ratigan:
  • Greedy Bastards
Thomas Frank:
  • Pity the Billionarie
Frances Moore Lappe:
  • Eco Mind: Changing the Way We Think To Create The World We Want
  • Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for a World Gone Mad
  • Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Want
  • Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life
  • Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (With Anna Lappe)
  • Diet for a Small Planet
Jimmy Carter:
  • Peace Not Apartheid
  • The Blood of Abraham: Insights Into the Middle East
  • Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
  • A Remarkable Mother
  • Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
Donella Meadows:
  • The Limits to Growth - the 30 Year Update
  • Click here to read articles written by Donella.
Helena Norberg Hodge::
  • Ancient Futures: learning from Ladakh
  • Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World
  • From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture
Dr. David Suzuki::
  • It's a Matter of Survival (with Anita Gordon)
  • Good News for a Change: How Everyday People are Helping the Planet (with Holly Dressel)
  • The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (with Amanda McConnell)
  • The Legacy: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future (with Margaret Atwood)
  • From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis (with Holly Dressel)
Vandana Shiva:
  • Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology
Dr. David Orr:
  • Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
  • The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
Edward Goldsmith and Jerry Mander (editors):
  • The Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn Toward the Local
T. Colin Campbell:
  • The China Study
Amory Lovins:
  • Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era
Aldo Leopold:
  • A Sand County Almanac
  • Round River
E.F. Schumacher:
  • Small is Beautiful
Rabindranath Tagore:
  • The Spirit of Japan
Robert Chesney
  • Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Jim Hightower
  • Thieves in High Places
Eric Alterman
  • Why We're Liberals: a Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals
  • Click here to read Alterman's blog in Nation Magazine.
Sen. Byron Dorgan
  • Take This Job and Ship It
Eric Tucker and John Westerdahl, dessert recipes by Sascha Weiss
  • The Millenium Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine (Recipes used during the first three years of operation of the famous Millenium vegan restaurant in San Francisco, California)
Eric Tucker and Bruce Enloe, dessert recipes by Amy Pearce
  • The Artful Vegan (More recipes used by the famous Millenium vegan restaurant in San Francisco, California)

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Small is beautiful!
E.F. Schumacher Society


Click here to read essays by some of the world's
finest thinkers on how we might bring about a new economics.

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Responsible journalism
Great Internet News: Microsoft and NBC Bless the Country



If you want to hear internet tv that is truly on your side, where the left (strong reformers) have a place at the table, where journalists expose powerful image-making techniques with no substance, listen to MSNBC News.

Any time of the day, you can listen to videos. You can turn it on and it will play all day while you clean your house. Excellent!

Click on an icon below to see videos of that show.


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More independent from vested interests
National Public Radio

The country has an immense problem. The rich have bought out radio stations across the country -- almost without exception. They are being used to promote narrow interests in ways that collide with your wellbeing. But we still have public radio. Click here to enter your zip code to find NPR stations in your city.
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