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Top Ten Books for Saving the Planet (Okay, Eleven)
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Silent SpringSilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.39
The original work that got everyone's attention with respect to the irreplacable value of ecological diversity.
Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental StrategyPandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy by Joe Thornton
Buy new: $62.50 / Used from: $3.42
Pioneering examination of how economies based on oil and chlorine are destined to fail while poisoning the earth, the people, and all species.
High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human HealthHigh Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health by Elizabeth Grossman
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $2.66
Silent Spring for the digital era.
The Manufacture of Evil: Ethics, Evolution and the Industrial SystemThe Manufacture of Evil: Ethics, Evolution and the Industrial System by Lionel Tiger
Buy used from: $2.67
A capstone book that goes far beyond Ralph Nader's concept of corporate irresponsibility, and shows how corporate "personality" is the root of evil that destroys humanity by treating humans as goods and customers rather than as people in a global network.
Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small PlanetHope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.75
Updated from the original. Bottom line: Iowa cannot eat its own corn, designed for force feeding to cattle; we can eliminate massive waste by shifting to meals that do not require animal prisons.
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It ComingBlessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming by Paul Hawken
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.60
Paul Hawkin's latest work (see everything by him), and the beginning of a revolution in human affairs.
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make ThingsCradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $14.47
Baseline for the Future
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Wharton School Publishing Paperbacks)The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Wharton School Publishing Paperbacks) by CK Prahalad
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $9.00
Nobel-level thinking pointing out that capitalism focused on the billion who can afford new sub-zero fridges every year, a ONE trillion a year marketplace, while the five billion at the bottom represent a FOUR trillion a year marketplace, but their r4efrigerators cost two dollars and consist of two ceramic jars with long next, one inside the other with an air gap, buried in the ground.
Thank God for Evolution!: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our WorldThank God for Evolution!: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World by Michael Dowd
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Micahel Dowd stands in for many other books such as The Left Hand of God, Faith-Based Diplomacy, and so on. Religion and science done with good faith can balance each other. This is a point made in much greater detail by E. O. Wilson in Concilience, which answers the question, what role do the humanities play in guiding science?
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and FreedomThe Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler
Buy new: $36.00 / Used from: $9.94
There are books on "Wealth of Knowledge," "Infinite Wealth," "Revolutionary Wealth" and so on, but this is the one that focuses specifically on the reciprocal altruism and gift economy that should superseded the economy of false money (banks issue credit backed by nothing, because governments are too corrupt to stop this and issue their own credit). See also "Open Money" on the Internet.
Where to find 4 billion new customers: expanding the world's marketplace; Smart companies looking for new growth opportunities should consider broadening ... consultant.: An article from: The FuturistWhere to find 4 billion new customers: expanding the world's marketplace; Smart companies looking for new growth opportunities should consider broadening ... consultant.: An article from: The Futurist by Medard Gabel
Buy new: $5.95
This is a placeholder for the author's forthcoming book, "Seven Billion Billionaires" in which he documents how the cost for resovling all ten of the high-level threats to humanity comes to under US$230 billion a year, or less than one third of what all governments spend on the military--US$900 billion a year.