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There was such an unusual response to the list of all time important books on Sustainability that Gail Jennings has volunteered to administer a library/book club to be available just before the greendrinks monthly meetings. Membership is the donation of a book to Gail’s approval or R150. There will be an unbelievably simple administration. List to come.

In the interim, why not take a look at one of the following…

50 books to change the world

1. A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold (1949)
2. Silent Spring Rachel Carson (1962)
3. Unsafe At Any Speed Ralph Nader (1965)
4. The Population Bomb Paul L. Ehrlich (1968)
5. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth R. Buckminster Fuller (1969)
6. The Limits to Growth Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers and William W. Behrens
   III (1972)
7. Small Is Beautiful E.F. Schumacher (1973)
8. Gaia James Lovelock (1979)
9. The Turning Point Fritjof Capra (1982)
10. Our Common Future (‘The Brundtland Report’) World Commission onEnvironment and Development
    (1987)
11. The Dream of the Earth Thomas Berry (1988)
12. A Fate Worse Than Debt Susan George (1988)
13. Staying Alive Vandana Shiva (1989)
14. Blueprint for a Green Economy David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Edward B. Barbier (1989)
15. For the Common Good Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr (1989)
16. Human Scale Development Manfred Max-Neef (1989)
17. Changing Course Stephan Schmidheiny and Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD) (1992)
18. The Ecology of Commerce Paul Hawken (1993)
19. Maverick Ricardo Semler (1993)
20. When Corporations Rule the World David C. Korten (1995)
21. Biomimicry Janine M. Benyus (1997)
22. Cannibals with Forks John Elkington (1997)
23. The Hungry Spirit Charles Handy (1997)
24. Banker to the Poor Muhammad Yunus (1998)
25. The Crisis of Global Capitalism George Soros (1998)
26. Factor Four Ernst von Weizsäcker, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins (1998)
27. False Dawn John Gray (1998)
28. Development as Freedom Amartya Sen (1999)
29. No Logo Naomi Klein (1999)
30. Natural Capitalism Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins (1999)
31. Business as Unusual Anita Roddick (2000)
32. The Mystery of Capital Hernando de Soto (2000)
33. The Civil Corporation Simon Zadek (2001)
34. Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser (2001)
35. The Skeptical Environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg (2001)
36. Cradle to Cradle William McDonough and Michael Braungart (2002)
37. Globalization and its Discontents Joseph E. Stiglitz (2002)
38. The Corporation Joel Bakan (2004)
39. Presence Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers (2004)
40. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid C.K. Prahalad (2004)
41. The River Runs Black Elizabeth C. Economy (2004)
42. Capitalism as if the World Matters Jonathon Porritt (2005)
43. Capitalism at the Crossroads Stuart L. Hart (2005)
44. Collapse Jared Diamond (2005)
45. The End of Poverty Jeffrey D. Sachs (2005)
46. The Chaos Point Ervin Laszlo (2006)
47. Heat George Monbiot (2006)
48. An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore (2006)
49. When the Rivers Run Dry Fred Pearce (2006)
50. The Economics of Climate Change Nicholas Stern (2007)

Source: Our World – Fifty books to change the world