These works are either referred to in posts or had an impact, direct or indirect, on my thinking.  They are a good, if somewhat random, place to start if you want to go more deeply into the subjects in this blog.  I also recommend looking up other works by some of the authors listed below.

 

“Arcosanti:  An Urban Laboratory.”  Arcosanti.  Retrieved from https://arcosanti.org/

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Aristotle. The Nicomachean Ethics.  J. A. K. Thomson, trans.  Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Arnsenault, Chris.  “Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues.”  Scientific American.  Retrieved from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/

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“Ayn Rand.”  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  19 September 2016.  Retrieved from https://plato.stanford. edu/entries/ayn-rand/

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Back to Basics.  Reader’s Digest, 1999.

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Berry, Wendell.  Our Only World.  Counterpoint, 2015.

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Burgess, Anthony.  A Clockwork Orange.  W. W. Norton, 1995.

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Carr, Patrick J. and Maria Kefalas.  Hollowing out the Middle:  The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America.  Beacon Press, 2010.

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Chesterton, G. K.  What’s Wrong with the World.  Dover, 2007.

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“Commentary:  Seeking Higher Ground.”  Press Herald.  29 July 2018.  Retrieved from https://www.pressherald.com/2018/07/29/commentary-seeking-higher-ground/

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Cullen, Countee.  “Incident.” Sound and Sense, Laurence Perrine.  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

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Daly, Herman.  Steady-State Economics.  Island, 1991.

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Diamond, Jared.  Collapse.  Penguin, 2011.

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Ibid.  The World Until Yesterday.  Penguin, 2013.

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Dreher, Rod.  The Benedict Option. Sentinel, 2017.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo.  “Self-Reliance.”  Self-Reliance and Other Essays.  Dover, 1993.

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“Fighting Peak Phosphorus.”  Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Retrieved from http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2016/finalwebsite/solutions/phosphorus.html

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Friedan, Betty.  The Feminine Mystique.  W. W. Norton, 1983.

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Goodell, Jeff.  The Water Will Come.  Little, Brown, 2017.

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Graham, Edward H.  Natural Principles of Land Use.  Oxford University Press, 1944.

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Greer, John Michael.  The Retro Future.  New Society Publishers, 2017.

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Ibid., The Wealth of Nature.  New Society Publishers, 2011.

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Hemenway, Toby.  Gaia’s Garden.  Chelsea Green, 2009.

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Hobbes, Thomas.  Leviathan.  Penguin Classics, 1982.

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Housman, A. E. “Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff.”  A Shropshire Lad.  Heritage Press, 1951.

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Huxley, Aldous.  Brave New World.  Everyman’s Library, 2013.

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Ireland, Ed.  “Renewable Energy Depends on Fossil Fuels.”  Denton Record-Chronicle.  20 September 2016.  Barnett Shale Energy Education Council.  Retrieved from http://www.bseec.org/renewable_energy_depends_on_fossil_fuels

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Irfan, Umair.  “Heat Waves Can Be Deadly for Workers and Will Drain the US Economy.”  Vox.  29 July 2018.  Retrieved from https://www.vox.com/2018/7/27/17611940/heat-wave-2018-cost-workers-deaths-health-climate-change

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Junger, Sebastian.  Tribe.  Twelve, 2016.

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Konnikova, Maria. “The Limits of Friendship.”  The New Yorker.  7 October 2014.  Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/social-media-affect-math-dunbar-number-friendships

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Kunstler, James Howard.  The Geography of Nowhere.  Free Press, 1994.

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Landis, Frank.  Hot Earth Dreams.  CreateSpace, 2016.

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Langlands, Alexander.  Cræft.  W. W. Norton, 2017.

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LeGuin, Ursula.  The Dispossessed.  Avon, 1975.

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Lewis, C. S.  That Hideous Strength.  Macmillan, 1965.

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Logsden, Gene.  The Contrary Farmer.  Chelsea Green, 1995.

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Louv, Richard.  Last Child in the Woods.  Algonquin, 2008.

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Lukianoff, Greg and Jonathan Haidt.  The Coddling of the American Mind:  How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. Penguin, 2019.

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Mearns, Euan.  “ERoEI for Beginners.”  Energy Matters.  25 May 2016.  Retrieved from http://euanmearns.com/eroei-for-beginners/

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Mollison, Bill.  Introduction to Permaculture.  Ten Speed, 1997.

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Orwell, George.  1984.  Signet Classics, 1961.

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Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food:  An Eater’s Manifesto.  Penguin, 2009.

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Pratchett, Terry.  Maskerade.  Harper, 2014.

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Putnam, Robert.  Bowling Alone:  The Collapse and Revival of American Community.  Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2000.

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Robinson, Sir Ken.  Creative Schools:  The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education.  Penguin Books, 2016.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.  Emile:  Or Treatise on Education.  William H. Payne, trans. Prometheus, 2003.

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Salatin, Joel.  Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World.  Center Street, 2011.

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Schlosser, Eric.  Fast Food Nation.  Harper Perennial, 2005.

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Scott, James C.  Against the Grain.  Yale University Press, 2017.

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Sentlinger, Katherine.  “Water Scarcity and Agriculture.”  The Water Project.  Retreived from https://thewaterproject.org/water-scarcity/water-scarcity-and-agriculture

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Shepard, Mark.  Restoration Agriculture.  Acres U.S.A., 2013.

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Skinner, B. F.  Science and Human Behavior.  Free Press, 1965.

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Tainter, Joseph.  The Collapse of Complex Societies.  Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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Voltaire.  Candide.  Francois-Marie Arouet, trans.  Dover, 1991.

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Zehner, Damaris.  The Between Time. Twenty-Third Publications, 2015.