Findhorn Foundation Eco-Village Training 2000 Book List

1 Eco-Villages and The Emerging Paradigm - May and Craig

Small is Beautiful, E.F. Schumacher

Directory of Eco-villages in Europe, GEN

Gaia, James Lovelock

Earth Summit '92, U.N

Betting on Biodiversity Vandana Shiva

The Seed Keepers Vandana Shiva

The Enclosure and Recovery of the Commons Vandana Shiva

Quantum Self Danah Zohar

 

2 Permaculture - Design for Sustainability - Jane Hera

Books:

Earth Users Guide to Permaculture, Rosemary Morrow

Introduction to Permaculture, Bill Mollison

Permaculture, Bill Mollison (2 copies)

Action Learning Manual, The Permaculture Academy of Britain, Aug 1997

The Source Book, Pecos River Farms

Permaculture Two, Bill Mollison

Blackenfields Farm Luppitt, Concept Design

The Blackdown Hills Sustainable Development Initiative, Final Report

Cohousing, Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett

Plants for a Future, Ken Fern

Developing Sustainable Communities, A Field Worker's Manual, Part One

Companion Planting, Richard Bird

Earth Repair Catalogue, No. 3, Permanent Publications

Backyard Composting, John Roulac

Forest Gardening, Robert A de J Hart

Permaculture in a Nutshell, Patrick Whitefield

Magazines:

Permaculture International Journal, Issue No.34 Dec. 1989

Permaculture International Journal, Issue No. 48 Sep-Nov 1993

Permaculture Magazine, Vol 1 No 1 Autumn 1992

Permaculture Magazine, Issue No 19

Permaculture Magazine, Vol 1 No 4 Autumn 1993

Permaculture Magazine, Issue No 10

Permaculture Magazine, Vol 1 No 2 Winter 1992/93

Permaculture Magazine, Vol 1 No 3 Summer 1993

Permaculture Magazine, Issue No. 6 Summer 1994

Permaculture Magazine, Issue No. 8,16,18, 19, 21

CoHousing, Fall 1993 Volume 6 Number 3

CoHousing, Spring 1994 Volume 7 Number 1

Communities Journal of Cooperative Living, Summer 1998 Issue 99,

Communities Journal of Cooperative Living 1998, Issue 101

Home Power, Issue No. 37 October/November 1993

Rebuilding Community in America Ken Norwood

 

3 Building for the Next Millenium - John Talbott

Out of the Woods, Pat Borer and Cindy Harris, CAT 1994

Eco-Villages and Sustainable Communities, Findhorn Press, 1995

Recollection & Change, kirsten klein & inger klingenberg, 1995

The Feng Shui Handbook, master lam kam chuen, 1995

Gaia, James Lovelock, 1991 (hard back)

The Architecture of Jubilation, James Hubbell, 1998 (English and Russian)

Energy from Nature, Peter Pedals, 1996, ninth edition

Eco-Villages and Sustainable Communities, Context Institute, 1997

Save the Earth, Jonathon Porritt, 1992

The Gaia Atlas of Planet Management, Norman Myers, 1994

Sustainable House, Michael Mobbs, 1998

>From the Ground Up, Peter Goering/Helena Norberg-Hodge/John Page, 1993

The Green Fuse, John Button, 1990

The Ecology of Commerce, Paul Hawken, 1994

The Almanac of Renewable Energy, Richard Golob and Eric Brus, 1993

Healthy Homes in a Toxic World, Maury M. Breecher M.P.H. & Shirley Linde Ph.D.

The Healthy Home, Linda Mason Hunter, 1990

Growing a Business, Paul Hawken, 1988

>From Eco-Cities to Living Machines, Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd,1994

Solar Living Source Book, John Schaeffer & Real Goods Staff, 1994, eighth edition

>From the Earth Up, Otto B. Rigan, 1979

Palace Doors of Adu Dhabi, Otto B. Rigan, 1982

>From Earth to Spirit, David Pearson, 1994

Cohousing, Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett with Ellen Hertzman, 2nd edit.

The Natural House Book, David Pearson, 1989

The Strawbale House, Athena Swentzell Steen & Bill Steen & David Bainbridge

The New Natural House Book, David Pearson, 1998

The Natural House Catalog, David Pearson, 1996

 

5 EarthShare: Food, Farming and Community - Christopher

 >From the Ground Up; rethinking Industrial Agriculture, Peter Goering, Helena Norberg-Hodge and John Page.

Published by Zed Books in association with the International Society for Ecology and Culture.

A short, clear survey of the major agricultural issues.

 

Farms of tomorrow revisited,Community supported farms - Farm supported Communities, Trauger Groh and Steven McFadden.

Published by the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association

A detailed review of the "community supported agriculture model" on which our local EarthShare scheme is based. US examples but of relevance everywhere.

 

The Gift of Good Land, Wendell Berry, North Point Press, San Francisco

Essays on the Philosophy and Practice of our relationship to Earth. Again US based but full of Wisdom

 

If you are looking for information on any aspect of farming, gardening or food, please ask me. The gardening library in Cullerne garden is also available for your use.

 

6 Building effective groups: Democracy, Empowerment and Creativity - Jane and Robin

 

Playful Self-Discovery, David Earl Platts, Findhorn Press, ISBN 1-899171-06-1 (L5.95)

The Book of Games and Warm Ups for Group Leaders, Gale Centre Publications, ISBN 1870258 30 4

New Games for the Whole Family, Putnam Group, ISBN 0399 5144 81 (L6.95)

Designing Productive Meetings and Events - Local Agenda 21 in South Oxfordshire.

 

7 Healing Potential of Community

Recommended reading:

Medical Marriage, The New Partnership Between Orthodox and Complementary

Medicine, Cornelia Featherstone and Lori Forsyth, Findhorn Press, 1997

Total Participation, Total Health, Alex Scott-Samuel, Scottish Academic Press, 1990

Additional reading:

The Healing Web, Marc Pilisuk, Susan Hiller Parks, University Press of England, 1986

The Peckham Experiment, Innes Pearse, Lucy Crocker, Scottish Academic Press, 1985

The Quality of Life, Innes Pearse, Scottish Academic Press, 1979

Gesundheit, Patch Adams, Healing Arts Press, 1993

Health & Community, Mike Money (ed.), Green Books, 1993

Health Professions Education and Relationship-Centred Care, Tresolini CP the Pew-Fetzer Task Force, 1994

Flight into Freedom, Eileen Caddy, Findhorn Press, 1988

Choices of Love, Dorothy Maclean, Lindisfarne Books, 1998

Calling the Circle, the first and future culture, Christina Baldwin, Swan Raven Co, 1994

The Different Drum, the creation of true community - the first step to world peace, M Scott Peck, Arrow Books, 1987

Creating Community Everywhere, finding support and connection in a fragmented world, Shaffer and Aunudsen, Jeremy Tarcher/Pedigree Books, 1993

Festivals in the New Age, David Spangler, Findhorn Foundation, 1975

The Reinvention of Work, a new vision of livelihood for our time, Matthew Fox, Harper Collins, 1994

The Rebirth of the Sacred, David Spangler, Gateway Books, 1984

Of Water and the Spirit, ritual, magic and initiation in the life of an African Shaman, Malidoma Some, Arkana, 1994

 

8 Fundraising and Networking - May & Eve

 

The Complete Fundraising Book, Sam Clark, Pubs Directory of Social Change

Writing Better Fundraising Applications, Michael Norton, Pubs Directory of Social Change

 

9 Wilderness, Conservation and Ecological Restoration - Alan & Adam

 

Thinking Like a Mountain, John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming & Arne Naess. New Society Publishers, 1988 ISBN 0-86571-133-X

Saving Nature's Legacy, Reed F. Noss and Allen Y. Cooperider. Island Press, 1994 ISBN 1-55963-248-8

Continental Conservation edited by Michael E. Soule and John Terborgh. Published by Island Press, 1999 ISBN 1-55963-698-X

Ishmael, Daniel Quinn. Bantam Books 1992/95 ISBN 0-553-37540-7

Restoring the Earth, edited by John Berger Anchor/Doubleday 1987 ISBN 0-385-23931-9

In Service of the Wild, Stephanie Mills Beacon Press 1995 ISBN 0-8070-8535-9

Deep Ecology for the 21st Century edited by George Sessions. Shambhala 1995 ISBN 1-57062-049-0

The Song of the Dodo, David Quammen. Pimlico 1997 ISBN 0-7126-7393-4

A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold. Oxford University Press 1949/89 ISBN 0-19-505928-X

The Future Eaters, Tim Flannery. Reed New Holland 1994 ISBN 1-87633-421-5 tin.kirchner@gmx.net">martin.kirchner@gmx.net