BIBLIOGRAPHY / FURTHER READING

These are all landmark books in their field. Most of the authors mentioned have written other books as well, and I offer only a sampling of important works on the related subjects of environmentalism, animal rights, science, technology, and the crisis of capitalism and human hope.

Brown, Lester (editor): State of the World. NY: W.W. Norton and Company, 1992 • Annual summarizing the Worldwatch Institute's in-depth reports on population, pollution, biodiversity and Third World growth.

Carson, Rachel: Silent Spring. Greenwich CT: Fawcett Crest, 1962 • The classic articulate and poetic expose of the ravages of chemical pesticides on natural ecosystems.

Chomsky, Noam: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies. Boston, MS: South End Press, 1989 • One of Chomsky's several intensely researched and footnoted discussions of media's influence on democracy.

Commoner, Barry: Making Peace with the Planet. NY: Pantheon Books, 1975• Revised in 1990; the renowned environmentalist from the 1960's evaluates environmental reform and concludes prevention is the only cure for pollution.

Gore, Senator Al: Earth In the Balance; Ecology and the Human Spirit. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992 • An impassioned discussion of environmentalism, equating U.S. denial of environmental problems with denial in a dysfunctional family.

Gorz, Andre: Ecology as Politics. Boston, South End Press, 1980 • French socialist thinker links the ecology movement with the struggle for greater social change.

Illich, Ivan: Tools for Conviviality. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1973 • Argues that institutionalized tools have grown past their usefulness and how enslave rather than liberate.

McKibben, Bill: The End of Nature. NY: Random House, 1989 • A poetic lament over the irreversibility of man's presence in nature.

Postman, Neil: Technopoly; The Surrender of Culture to Technology. NY: Alfred Knopf, 1992 • Discussion of the influences of media and computers on communication and education.

Rifkin, Jeremy, with Ted Howard: Entropy, into the Greenhouse World (revised edition)! New York: Bantam Books, 1980 •Lively discussion of the political, philosophical, and cultural implications of the laws of thermodynamics.

Robbins, John: Diet for a New America. Walpole, NH: Stillpoint Press, 1987 • Political, scientific, and ethical discussion of the health effects of meat eating.

Schumacher, E.F,: Small is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered. NY: Harper and Row, 1973 • An economist discusses the limits of growth and the benefits of appropriate technologies.

Singer, Peter: Animal Liberation (2nd edition). NY: Random House, 1990 • The definitive arguments against the exploitation of animals for food and medical experiments.

Thompson, Claudia G: Recycled Papers: The Essential Guide. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992 • A practical discussion of the technologies, practices, and design application of paper recycling.

Zinn, Howard: A People's History of the United States. NY: Perennial Library, 1980 •An eloquent alternative to textbook histories, chronicling the plight of indigenous people, race and labor struggles from Columbus to Vietnam.

Catalogues and Practical Guides
Anderson, Bruce (editor): Ecologue: The Environmental Catalogue and Consumer's Guide for a Safe Earth. NY: Prentice Hall Press, 1990 • Thorough catalogue directed at the homeowner; filled with information and hard to find products.

Council on Economic Priorities, Inc.: Shopping for a Better World. NY: Ballantine Books, 1991 • Evaluates consumer products companies in terms of their policies and records regarding human rights, military involvement, pollution, and animal rights.

Schaeffer, John (editor): Real Goods: Alternative Energy Sourcebook (2nd edition). Ukiah CA: Real Goods Trading Corporation, 1991 • Information and products on alternative energy from batteries to solar panels, from toys to toilet dams.

Stewart, Mary Lou (president and research director): The Environmental Directory. Vancouver, B.C. Canada: Stewart's Green Line Ltd., 1991 • Environmental products and services.

Periodicals
Animals' Agenda: Animal Rights Network, Inc., 456 Monroe Turnpike, Monroe CT 06468 (203-452-0466) • An even-headed magazine of animal rights and ecology.
E Magazine: Earth Action Network, Inc., 28 Knight St., Norwalk CT 06851 • Another of the new wave of environmental zines: informative and sharp.
Garbage Magazine: Old House Journal Corp., 2 Main St., Gloucester, MA 01930 (508-283-4721) • Sardonic and informative; full of ideas, resources and up-to-the-minute news on environmental issues.