SILENT SPRING ~ Rachel Carson Ð 1962, deeply felt
& expressed natural science of current pollution disasters of DDT poisoning
waters & damaging animals, began the new ecology movements in 1960s &
beyond.
ISLAND ~ Aldous Huxley, 1964 novel, whiteman
goes to south Pacific seas visiting an amazing cooperative neo Buddhist
community with natural present awareness, thatÕs threatened by coming
industrial tyrants, like a 1000 places since then.
ECOTOPIA ~ radical NW bioregions succeed form US
in 1980, hi drama from 1999
reporter secret touring the new pagan hippy nation naturally conserving,
cooperating & recycling like Cuba? without cars, plans, military or nukes,
Sequel ÒEcotopia EmergingÓ.
ALWAYS COMING
HOME Ð Ursula LeGuin Ð
distant future s of No. Cali anthro-pology, wild & deep details of primal
instincts in neo-pagan mini cultures, after the FLOOD has drowned SF bay up
into Sonoma & Mendacino hippies in remote valleys.
SURVIVAL OF
CIVILIZATION ~ Hamacker
& Weave, mid Ô80s natural science of climate crisis, agriculture & coming solar or ice-age, pro
organic farming & rock- dust mineralizing depleted soils.
END OF NATURE Ð Bill McKibben Ð Õ89 dynamic expose of
current deadly civilization attacking mother nature, raving for solutions now growing
with climate crisis & peak-oil cycle wars, with revived ecology movements
desperate to reverse trends to localize life.
EARTH IN THE
BALANCE ~ Al Gore, 1992,
a honest expose of current ecology crisis in 100 levels, screaming for
solutions from 20 years before, mostly ignored by US progress still polluting
our health & future!?
WATER Ð A
Natural History Ð Susan
Outwater Ð Õ98, a detailed exposeÕ of natural patterns in US from
pre-pilgrim/pioneer invasions of watersheds & bioregions up to mid 1990s
water treatments systems, mostly ignored by pop ecology.
FIFTH SACRED
THING ~ Starhawk Ð Õ97,
radical novel, mid 2020s ecospasm futures of California water-wars with raging
cultural movements between neo-pagan hippy Ecotopia spirits in SF,CA bay &
So.Cali neocon drouters desperately attacking for water.
PRAIRIE FIRE
Ð Dan Armstrong Ð 05.
prophetic novel, hi drama of US grain farms under heavy attack form greedy
markets, after crash of rice harvest from China, (also happening also in
Australia), as mid-west US farmers finally burn their fields in protest of
greedy market policies.
The WEATHER
MAKERS Ð Tim Flannery,
Õ06, detail current ecology of current global &
local
destruction in bioregions under heavy-attack & threatening more
extinctions, softly suggesting reversing our suicidal-trends with conservation.
The LONG
EMERGENCY ~ James Kunstler Ð Õ05, anti-utopia
polemic rant athe American nitemare of ritual-riots in plots of cultural
suicide for good taste! & World Made By Hand Ð Õ08, novel. Future emerg-ence-see how
typical NYers live with-out techno crutches, for daily survival needs