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The Vanishing Face of Gaia:
A Final Warning

Lovelock, James

Why would a ninety year old man choose to defy his most trusted physician? Because in an act of splendid generosity Sir Richard Branson offered him the chance to fly into space, to share that transcendental feeling known only to astronauts  more...

 
 

 

Weapons of Mass Instruction:
A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

Gatto, John Taylor

John Taylor Gatto taught in the public system for 29 years and eight months. He was named New York City Teacher of the year in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991.  more...

5 min Audio Preview | read by Michael Puttonen

 

Dumbing Us Down:
The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Gatto, John Taylor

What does the school do with the children? John Taylor Gatto, an award winning teacher with 29 years experience, answers this question in Dumbing Us Down. He argues that school confuses children...  more...

 

College Without High School:
A Teenager's Guide to Skipping High School and Going to College

Boles, Blake

High school can be boring. High school curriculum can be frustrating and out of touch. So what is the answer for young people whose creativity, bright ideas, and boundless energy are being stifled in that over-scheduled and grade-driven environment?  more...

 

Peak Everything:
Waking Up to the Century of Declines

Heinberg, Richard

The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, the impact of humans on the environment increased dramatically. The 21st century ushered in an era of...  more...

 

Dry Run:
Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis

Yudelson, Jerry

Fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for industrial, urban and environmental reasons stirring up oceans of controversy, there is a...  more...

5 min Audio Preview | read by Michael Puttonen

 

Thriving Beyond Sustainability:
Pathways to a Resilient Society

Edwards, Andres R.

Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million tons of carbon dioxide into an already warming atmosphere...  more...

 

On Gandhi's Path:
Bob Swann's Work for Peace and Community Economics

Mills, Stephanie

Bigger has turned out not to be better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward...  more...

 

A Nation of Farmers:
Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil

Astyk, Sharon

Once we could fill our grocery carts with cheap and plentiful food, but not anymore. Cheap food has gone the way of cheap oil. Climate change is already reducing crop yields worldwide. The cost of flying in food from far away and shipping it across...  more...

 

Branded!:
How the 'Certification Revolution' is Transforming Global Corporations

Conroy, Michael E.

Making responsible social and environmental choices has not always been a first priority for many corporations, but recent history has changed all that. Small but mighty NGOs, using 21st Century global communications, are nipping at the heels of...  more...

 

The Natural Step Story:
Seeding a Quiet Revolution

Robert, Karl-Henrik

Few organizations have been as influential as The Natural Step in empowering and inspiring people to design a more sustainable world. In The Natural Step Story, Dr. Karl-Henrik Robrt describes firsthand the evolution of the Natural Step framework...  more...

 

Fermenting Revolution:
How to Drink Beer and Save the World

O'Brien, Christopher Mark

Fermenting Revolution delivers an empowering message about how individuals can change the world through the simple act of having a beer. It is also the first book to view all of the important trends in human history as fundamentally revolving... more...

 

Jennings' Diary
(1953)

Buckeridge, Anthony Sussex

It is the Easter term at Linbury Court School and Jennings has been promised five pounds by his aunt if he keeps up his diary every day. When he and Darbishire devise a code for entries, things really start to happen...  more...

 

15 min Audio Preview | read by Matt Walker

 

According to Jennings
(1954)

Buckeridge, Anthony Sussex

The space-craze sweeps through Linbury Court School and the corridors reverberate with 'voom-voom' noises as rockets, piloted by "Butch Breakaway" Jennings and his "bald-headed scientist," Darbishire, take off for the moon. As Mr. Carter prophesies, the craze wears off, but not before....  more...

 

 

Our Friend Jennings
(1955)

Buckeridge, Anthony Sussex

With Jennings and Darbyshire around to solve them, even the simplest problems develop in an alarming fashion. The whole term moves along in a torrent of ups and downs, and though Darbyshire does his best to steer clear of trouble there is little hope for them so long as Jennings' fertile brain is at work....  more...

 

 

Thanks to Jennings
(1957)

Buckeridge, Anthony Sussex

Jennings and Darbishire are getting up to, or into, "hoo-hah's," as Darbishire would say: a photographic expedition gets complicated; a guinea-pig, dropped off by a well-meaning, but misguided grandmother; a school inspector mistaken for...  more...

 

15 min Audio Preview | read by Matt Walker





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