A selection of recommended books, categories are loose, as some books would fit more than one. Not all of them are (yet) mentioned in the blog pages. Note that some of the titles might sound pessimistic - they're not. However, we won't be able to effect change unless we are ready to look at the current situation as it is.
Technological choice
- Langdon Winner, The Whale and the Reactor. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.
- Lee Worth Bailey, The enchantments of technology. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2005.
- M. Cotton, Ethics and Technology Assessment: A Participatory Approach. SAPERE volume 13. Springer, 2014.
Technology and resources
- Philippe Bihouix, L'Age des Low Tech, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2014. English translation available here.
- Guillaume Pitron, La Guerre des metaux rares, Les Liens qui Liberent, 2018.
- Ugo Bardi, Extracted. How the quest for mineral wealth is plundering the planet. Chelsea Green Publishing, Vermont, 2014.
Climate change/ collapse and what we can do
- Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate. Simon & Schuster paperbacks, 2014.
- Pablo Servigne & Raphael Stevens, Comment tout peut s'effondrer, petit manuel de collapsologie a l'usage des generations presentes, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2015.
- Pablo Servigne, Raphael Stevens & Gauthier Chapelle, Une autre fin du monde est possible. Vivre l'effondrement (et pas seulement y survivre), Editions du Seuil, Paris 2018.
- Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy. New World Library, Novato, California, 2012.
Building the future
- Perrine & Charles Herve-Gruyer, Vivre avec la Terre. Manuel des jardiniers-maraichers, Actes Sud, 2018.
