Related Readings from A New Reality
The materials below provide a companion reading list for A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future. Complete URLs are provided.
Brown, Lester. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. Rev. ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009. http://www.earth-policy.org/books/pb4
Diamond, Jared. The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? New York: Viking, 2012. http://www.jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/The_World_Until_Yesterday.html
Eisenstein, Charles. Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition. Berkeley, CA: Evolver Editions, 2011. http://sacred-economics.com/
Friedman, Thomas. Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016. http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/thank-you-for-being-late/
Harari, Yuval. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. New York: HarperCollins, 2015. http://www.ynharari.com/book/sapiens/
Lane, Nick. The Vital Question. New York: W. W. Norton, 2015. http://nick-lane.net/
Lutz, Wolfgang, Warren C. Sanderson, and Sergei Schurboy, eds.
The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation & Sustainable Development. London: Earthscan, 2004. https://www.routledge.com/The-End-of-World-Population-Growth-in-the-21st-Century-New-Challenges/Sanderson-Lutz-Scherbov/p/book/9781844070992
Mackey, John, and Rajendra Sisodia. Conscious Capitalism. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2014. https://hbr.org/product/conscious-capitalism-with-a-new-preface-by-the-authors-liberating-the-heroic-spirit-of-business/17106E-KND-ENG
Sachs, Jeffrey. The Age of Sustainable Development. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. http://jeffsachs.org/books/the-age-of-sustainable-development/
Wilkinson, Richard, and Kate Pickett. The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. New York: Bloomsbury, 2009. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-spirit-level-9781608191703/
A collection of Powerpoint slides regarding The Spirit Level can be downloaded here.
Wilson, E. O. Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life. New York: W. W. Norton, 2016. http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-1-63149-082-8/
Wilson, E. O. The Social Conquest of Earth. New York: Liveright, 2012. http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Social-Conquest-of-Earth/