IFG’s Recommended Book List

BOOKS BY IFG BOARD, STAFF
& ASSOCIATES:

Miguel Altieri:

• Altieri, M. (2004): Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: The Myths, Environmental Risks, and Alternatives. Oakland: Food First Books.

Maude Barlow:

• Barlow, M. (2007): Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Fight for the Right to Water. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
• Barlow, M. (2005): Too Close For Comfort: Canadas Future Within Fortress North America. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
• Barlow, M. (2002): Profit Is Not the Cure: A Citizens Guide to Saving Medicare. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
• Barlow, M. and Clarke, T. (2002): Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the Worlds Water. Toronto: Stoddart.
• Barlowe, M. and Clarke, T. (2001): Global Showdown: How the New Activists Are Fighting Global Corporate Rule. Toronto: Stoddart.
• Barlow, M. and May, E. (2000): Frederick Street: Life and Death on Canadas Love Canal. Toronto: Harper Collins.
• Barlow, M. and Clarke, T. (1998): MAI: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment Round 2; New Global and Internal Threats to Canadian Sovereignty. Toronto: Stoddart.
• Barlow, M. (1998): The Fight of My Life: Confessions of an Unrepentant Canadian. Toronto: Harper Collins.
• Barlow, M. and Clarke, T. (1998): MAI: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to American Freedom. Toronto: Stoddart.
• Barlow, M. and Winter, J. (1997): The Big Black Book: The Essential Views of Conrad and Barbara Amiel Black. Toronto: Stoddart.
• Barlow, M. and Campbell, B. (1995): Straight through the Heart: How the Liberals Abandoned the Just Society. Toronto: Harper Collins.
• Barlow, M. and Robertson, H. J. (1994): Class Warfare: The Assault on Canadas Schools. Toronto: Key Porter Books.
• Barlow, M. and Campbell, B. (1993): Take Back the Nation 2. Toronto: Key Porter Books.
• Barlow, M. (1990): Parcel of Rogues: How Free Trade Is Failing Canada. Toronto: Key Porter Books.

Walden Bello:

• Bello, W. (2009): The Food Wars. Verso.
• Bello, W. and Minh, Ho Chi (2007): Walden Bello presents Ho Chi Minh.
  Verso.
• Bello, W. (2006): Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire. Holt Paperbacks.
• Bello, W. and others (2006): The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines. Zed Books.
• Bello, W. (2005): Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy. Revisted Edition. Zed Books.
• Bello, W. (2001): The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance. Food First.
• Bello, W., Bullard, N. and Malhotra, K. (2000): Global Finance: New Thinking on Regulating Speculative Capital Markets. Zed Books.
• Bello, W., Cunningham, S. and Rau, B. (1999): Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty. Oakland: Food First Books.
• Bello, W., Cunningham, S. and Kheng Poh, L. (1998): A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Disintegration in Modern. Oakland: Food First Books.
• Bello, W. and Rosenfeld. S. (1990): Dragons in Distress: Asia's Miracle Economies in Crisis. Oakland: Food First Books.

Peter Berg:

• Berg, P. (2009): Envisioning Sustainability.
  Subculture Books.

Patrick Bond:

• Bond, P.(2006): Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation.
  London: Zed Books.
• Bond, P.(2005): Fanons Warning. Trenton: Africa World Press.

Jose Bove:

• Bove, J. (2002): The World Is Not for Sale: Farmers Against Junk
  Food. New York/London: Verso.

Dennis Brutus:

• Brutus, D., Karim, A. and Sustar, L. (2006): Poetry and
  Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader.
  Chicago: Haymarket Books.

Peter Bunyard:

• Bunyard, P. (2007): Extreme Weather.
  Floris Books.

Ernest Callenbach:

• Callenbach, E. (2008): Ecology: A Pocket Guide.
  Revised and Expanded. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Callenbach, E. (2007): Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future
  for America's Great Plains. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Callenbach,
  E. (1975): Ecotopia. Berkeley: Heyday Books.

Fritjof Capra:

• Capra, F. (2010): The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels
  between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism. Boston: Shambhala.
• Capra, F. (2002): The Hidden Connections: Integrating Biological,
  Cognitive, And Social Dimensions Of Life Into A Science Of Sustainability.
• Capra, F. (1997): The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding
  of Living Systems. New York: Anchor Books.

John Cavanagh:

• Cavanagh, J. and
  Broad, R. (2008): Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match.

  Paradigm Publishers.

• Cavanagh, J. and
  Barnet, R.(1994): Global Dreams. Imperial Corporations and
  the New World Order. New York: Simon and Schuster.
• Cavanagh, J. and
  Mander, J. (2004): Alternatives to Globalization. Berrett Koehler.

Tony Clarke:

• Clarke, T. (2008):
  Tar Sands Showdown: Canada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of
  Climate Change.
• Clarke, T. (2007):
  Inside the Bottle: Exposing the Bottled Water Industry.
  Updated/Revised Edition.
• Clarke, T. and Barlow,
  M. (2002): Blue Gold: The Battle Against the Corporate Theft of the
  Worlds Water.

Herman Daly:

• Daly, H. E. and Farley, J. (2010): Ecological Economics.
  Second Edition. Principles and Applications
• Daly, H. E. (2007): Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development,
  Selected Essays of Herman Daly.
  Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Daly, H. E.
  (1997): Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development.
  Boston: Beacon Press.
• Daly, H. E. and Cobb, J.B. (1994): For the Common Good: Redirecting
  the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future.
  Boston: Beacon Press.

Kevin Danaher:

• Danaher, K., Biggs,
  S. and Mark, J. (2007).
  Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots.
  Sausalito: PoliPointPress.
• Danaher, K. and
  Mittal, A. (2004). 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank.
  Canada: Open Media
• Danaher, K. and
  Mark, J. (2003). Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power.
  London/New York: Routledge.

Oronto Douglas:

• Douglas, O. , Okonta, I. and Monbiot, G. (2003): Where Vultures Feast:
  Shell, Human Rights and Oil. New York: Verso.

Susan George:

• George, S. (2004): Another World Is Possible, If…
  New York/London: Verso.

Herbert Girardet:

• Girardet, H. and Mendonca, M. (2009): A Renewable World: Policies,
  Practices & Technologies. Green Books.
• Girardet, H. (2008): Cities People Planet: Urban Development and
  Climate Change. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
• Girardet, H. (2008): Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos
  and Other Global Challenges. London: Sterling VA, Earthscan.

Edward Goldsmith:

• Goldsmith, E. (2006):
  Les sept sentiers de l'cologie. Editions
  Alphe.
• Goldsmith, E. (2006):
  The Doomsday Fun Book New Edition. John Carpenter.
• Goldsmith, E. (2001):
  Le Pige se Referme.
• Goldsmith, E. and
  Mander, J. (1996): The Case Against the Global Economy: and for a
  turn towards the local. Sierra Book Club.
• Goldsmith, E. (1992):
  An Ecological World View. Rider.
• Goldsmith, E. and
  Bunyard, P. (1990): Gaia and Evolution.
• Goldsmith, E. (1990):
  5,000 Days to Save the Planet. Hamlyn.
• Goldsmith, E. (1988):
  The Earth Report.
• Goldsmith, E. (1988):
  The Great U-Turn: De-industrialising Society. Green Books.
• Goldsmith, E. (1988):
  Gaia, the Thesis, the Mechanisms and the Implications.
  Wadebridge Ecological Centre
• Goldsmith, E. (1981):
  La Mdecine la Question.
• Goldsmith, E. (1978):
  The Stable Society. Wadebridge Press.
• Goldsmith, E. (1977):

  The Doomsday Funbook (Joys Of Apocalypse).

• Goldsmith, E. (1972):
  A Blueprint for Survival. Penguin.
• Goldsmith, E. (1971):
  Can Britain Survive?

Richard Grossman:

• Grossman, R. (2010): Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking
  in the Industrialized World since 1800. Princeton: Princeton University
  Press.
• Grossman, R. (2008): Handbook of Vinyl Formulating (Wiley Series
  on Polymer Engineering and Technology).

  Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Interscience.

Colin Hines:

• Hines, C. (2000): Localization: A Global Manifesto. London: Earthscan
  Publishing.
• Hines, C. and Lang, T. (1993): The New Protectionism: Protecting
  the Future Against Free Trade.
  New York : New Press.

Paul Hawken:

• Hawken, P., Lovins, A. B. and Lovins, L. H. (2008): Natural Capitalism:
  Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown and
  Company.
• Hawken, P. (2007): Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the
  World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. New York: Penguin
  Books.

Richard Heinberg:

• Heinberg, R. (2009):
  Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis.
• Heinberg, R. (2009):
  Searching for a Miracle: Net Energy
  Limits and the Fate of Industrial Society.
• Heinberg, R. (2007):
  Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines.
• Heinberg, R. (2006):
  The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism, and
  Economic Collapse.
• Heinberg, R. (2004):

  Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World.

• Heinberg, R. (2003):
  The Partys Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies.
  Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers.
• Heinberg, R. (1999):
  Cloning the Buddha: The Moral Impact of Biotechnology.
• Heinberg, R. (1996):
  A New Covenant with Nature: Notes on the End of Civilization and the
  Renewal of Culture
• Heinberg, R. (1995):
  Memories and Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a
  Lost Golden Age. Revised edition.
• Heinberg, R. (1993):
  Celebrate the Solstice: Honoring the Earths Seasonal Rhythms through
  Festival and Ceremony.

Patrick Holden:

• Holden, P. (2009): In Search of Structural Power: EU aid policy as
  a global political instrument.
  Burlington: Ashgate Publishing.

Rob Hopkins:

• Hopkins, R. and Hodgson, J. (2010): Transition in Action: Totnes
  and District 2030, An Energy Descent Action Plan.

  White River Jubction, VT: Green Books.

• Hopkins, R. and Johnstone, C. (2010): Find Your Power: A Toolkit
  for Resilience and Positive Change
• Hopkins, R. and Grenville, M. (2010): Transition Communities: A Pocket
  Guide.White River Jubction, VT: Green Books.
• Hopkins, R. and Chamberlin, S. (2009): The Transition Timeline: For
  a Local, Resilient Future. White River Jubction, VT: Green Books.
• Hopkins, R. and Pinkerton, T. (2009): Local Food: How to Make it
  Happen in Your Community (Transition Guides).

  White River Jubction, VT: Green Books.

Wes Jackson:

• Jackson, W. (2010): Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological
  Approach to a New Agriculture.
  Counterpoint.
• Jackson, W. and Vitek, B. (2010): The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity,
  Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (Culture of the Land).
  Lexington: University Press of Kenntucky.

Michael Klare:

• Klare, M. (2009): Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics
  of Energy . New York: Holt Paperback.
• Klare, M. (2005): Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of
  America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum.
  New York: Owl Books.

Andrew Kimbrell,
International Center for Technology:

• Kimbrell, A. and Newman, N. (2007): Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering
  and the Secret Changes in Your Food.
  Earth Aware.
• Kimbrell, A. (Ed.) (2002): The Fatal Harvest Reader. Washington:
  Island Press.

David
Korten:

• Korten, D. (2009):
  Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth.
  San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
• Korten, D. (2006):
  The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.

  San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.

• Korten, D. (1995):
  When Corporations Rule the World.
• Korten, D. (1990):
  Getting to the 21st Century: Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda

Satish Kumar:

• Kumar, S. (2010): Earth Pilgrim: Conversations with Satish Kumar.
• Kumar, S. (2008): Spiritual Compass: The Three Qualities of Life.
  Foxhole, Darton: Green Books.

James Howard Kunstler:

• Kunstler, J. H. (2006): The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of
  Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First
  Century. New York: Grove Press.

Tim Lang:

• Lang, T., Barling, D. and Caraher, M. (2009): Food Policy: Integrating
  health, environment and society.

  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Lang, T. and Heasman, M. (2003): Food Wars: Public Health and the
  Battle for Mouths Minds and Markets.
  London: Earthscan.

Sara Larrain:

• Larrain, S. and
  others (2007): Alternativas para
  una Integracin desde los Pueblos.
  Programa Chile Sustentable / Fundacin Heinrich Bll / Cono Sur Sustentable.
  .
• Larrain, S. and
  others (2006): Glaciares chilenos.
  Reservas estratgicas de agua dulce
  para la sociedad, los ecosistemas y la
  economa. Programa Chile Sustentable / Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura
  (SNA) / Fundacin Heinrich Bll.
• Larrain, S. and
  others (2004): Recursos Hdricos:
  Desafos para la Sustentabilidad.Programa Chile Sustentable / Fundacin
  Heinrich Bll / Fundacin Ford / Aguas Altiplano / CIED.
• Larrain, S., Paz,
  A. M and Bravo, Patricia (2004): Agua:
  Dnde est y de quin es? Para
  entender lo que ocurre con las aguas en Chile.
  Programa Chile Sustentable / Fundacin Heinrich Bll / Fundacin
  Ford / Programa Aguas Altiplano / CIED Per.

Annie Leonard:

• Leonard, A. (2010):
  The Story of Stuff. Free Press.

Caroline Lucas:

• Lucas, C. and Woodin,
  M. (2004): Green Alternatives to
  Globalisation: A Manifesto.
• Lucas, C. (2001):
  Stopping the Great Food Swap: Relocalising Europe's Food Supply.

  Brussels: The Greens / European Free Alliance, European Parliament.

• Lucas, C. (1996):
  Reforming World Trade: The Social and Environmental Priorities.
  Oxford: Oxfam Publications.

Jerry
Mander:

• Mander, J. and Paik,
  K. (2009): The Superferry Chronicles.

  Koa Books.

• Mander, J. and Tauli-Corpuz,
  V. (2008): Paradigm Wars. Sierra Club Books.
• Mander, J. and Cavanagh,
  J. (2004): Alternatives to Globalization.
  Second Edition. Berret-Koehler.
• Mander, J. and Goldsmith,
  E. (1996): The Case Against the Global Economy.

  Sierra Club Books.

• Mander, J. (1991):
  In the Absence of the Sacred. Sierra Club Books.
• Mander, J. (1977):
  Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television.
  Morrow.

Wangari Maathai:

• Maathai, W. (2010): Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for
  Healing Ourselves and the World.
  Random House.
• Maathai, W. (2009): The Challenge for Africa.

Patrick McCully:

• McCully, P. (2001): Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of
  Large Dams. Enlarged and Updated Edition. Zed Books.

Bill McKibben:

• McKibben, B. (2010): Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.
  New York: Times Book.
• McKibben, B. (2008): Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and
  the Durable Future.
• McKibben, B. (2008): The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active
  Life. New York: First Holt Paperbacks.
• McKibben, B. (2007): Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking
  Action in Your Community. New York: First Holt Paperbacks.

Stephanie Mills:

• Mills, S. (2010):
  On Gandhi's Path: Bob Swann's Work for Peace and Community Economics.
  Gabriola Island, Canada: New Society Publishers.
• Mills, S. (2007):
  Tough Little Beauties.
• Mills, S. (2003):
  Epicurean Simplicity. Washington: Island Press.

Anuradha Mittal:

• Mittal, A. and Danaher, K. (2004): 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF
  & World Bank. Canada: Open Media.
• Mittal, A. and Bello, W. (2001): The Future in the Balance. Oakland:
  Food First Books.

John Mohawk:

• Mohawk, J. (1999): Utopian Legacies: A History of Conquest &
  Oppression in the Western World.
  Clear Light Publishers.

Monica Moore:

• Moore, M. A., (2006). Everyday Heroes.

  Denver: Outskirts Pres.

Ralph Nader:

• Nader, R. (2009):
  "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!"
  New York: Seven Stories Press.
• Nader, R. (2001): The Seventeen Traditions.
  Harper/Collins.
• Nader, R. (1965): Unsafe At Any Speed. Grossman Publishers.

Helena Norberg-Hodge:

• Norberg-Hodge, H.,
  Merrified, T. and Gorelick, S. (2002): Bringing the Food Economy
  Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness.
  Zed Books/Kumarian Press.
• Norberg-Hodge, H.
  (2000): Ancient Futures: Learning from
  Ladakh. Revised. Rider Books.
• Norberg-Hodge, H.,
  Goering, P. and Page, J. (2000): From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial
  Agriculture. ISEC/Zed Books.
• Norberg-Hodge, H.
  and others (1995): The Future of Progress: Reflections on Environment
  and Development. Revised Edition. Green Books.

Richard B. Norgaard:

• Norgaard, R. B. (1994). Development Betrayed: The End of Progress
  and a Co-Evolutionary Revisioning of the Future. New York: Routledge.

Andrew Pendleton:

• Pendleton, A. and Gospel, H. (2006): Corporate Governance and Labour
  Management: An International Comparison.

  Oxford.

Nicanor Perlas:

• Perlas, N. (2003): Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural
  Power and Threefolding. Center for Alternative Development Initiatives.

Carl Pope:

• Pope, C. (2006): Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration
  Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress.
  Sierra Club Books.

Chakravarthi Raghavan:

• Raghavan, C. (2002). Developing countries and services trade: Chasing
  a black cat in a dark room, blindfolded.

  Third World Network.

• Raghavan, C. (1990). Recolonization: Gatt, the Urugay Round and the
  Third World. London: Zed Books.

Simon Retallack:

• Retallack, S., Lawrence, T. and Lockwood, M. (2007): Positive Energy:
  Harnessing People Power to Prevent Climate Change
• Retallack, S. and de Bartillat, L. (2003): Stop.

Jeremy Rifkin:

• Rifkin, J. (2010): The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global
  Consciousness in a World in Crisis.
  Cambridge: Polity.
• Rifkin, J. (2004): The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the
  Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream.
  Cambridge: Polity.

Prof. Wolfgang Sachs:

• Sachs, W. and Santarius, T.(2007): Fair Future: Resource, Conflict,
  Security and Global Justice.
  Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood.
• Sachs, W. (1999): Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment
  and Development. New York/London: Zed Books.

Kirkpatrick Sale:

• Sale, K. (2007): After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination.
  Duke: Duke University Press.
• Sale, K. (1993): The Green Revolution: The American Environmental
  Movement, 1962-1992 (A Critical Issue).
  New York: Hill and Wang.

Jack Santa Barbara:

• Santa Barbara, J.
  and Galtung, J.: Peace Business:
  The Role of Business in Reducing Violence, Inequity and Ecological Degradation.

  Forthcoming.

John Stauber:

• Stauber, J. and Rampton, S. (2006): The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned
  Lies, and the Mess in Iraq. New York: Tarcher/Penguin.
• Stauber, J. and Rampton, S. (2004): Banana Republicans: How the Right
  Wing Is Turning America into a One-Party State.
  New York: Tarcher/Penguin.

Vandana Shiva:

• Shiva, V. (2008):
  Soil Not Oil. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press.
• Shiva, V. (2007):
  Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed. Cambridge Massachusetts:
  South End Press.
• Shiva, V. (2005):
  Earth Democracy. Justice, Sustainability, and Peace. Cambridge Massachusetts:
  South End Press.
• Shiva, V.
  (2002): Water Wars. Privatization, Pollution, and Profit. Cambridge
  Massachusetts: South End Press.
• Shiva, V.
  (2001): Patents, Myths and Reality. Penguin India.
• Shiva, V. (2001):
  Yoked to Death; Globalization and Corporate Control of Agriculture.
• Shiva, V.
  (2000): Tomorrow's Biodiversity.
  London: Thames and Hudson.
• Shiva, V.
  (1999): Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply.
  Cambridge Massachusetts: South End Press.
• Shiva, V.
  (1997): Biopiracy: the Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. Cambridge
  Massachusetts: South End Press.
• Shiva, V. and Moser,
  I. (1995): Biopolitics. Zed Books.
• Shiva, V. (1994):
  Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide.
  London: Earthscan.
• Shiva, V. (1993):
  Monocultures of the Mind: Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Agriculture.
  New Delhi: Zed Press.
• Shiva, V. and Mies,
  M. (1993): Ecofeminism. Halifax: Fernwood Publications.
• Shiva, V. (1992):
  The Violence of the Green Revolution: Ecological degradation and political
  conflict in Punjab. New Delhi: Zed Press.
• Shiva, V. (1992):
  Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives. Zed Press.
• Shiva, V. (1991):

  Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources
  in India. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.

David Suzuki:

• Suzuki, D. and Atwood, M.(2010): The Legacy: An Elder's Vision for
  Our Sustainable Future. Douglas & McIntyre.
• Suzuki, D. and Taylor, D. (2009): The Big Picture: Reflections on
  Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet.
  Vancouver: Greystone Books.
• Suzuki, D. and Boydr, D.(2008): David Suzuki's Green Guide. Vancouver:
  Greystone Books.

Victoria
Tauli-Corpuz:

• Tauli-Corpuz, V.
  (2003): Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge and the Rights of Indigenous
  Peoples. Penang: Third World Network.
• Tauli-Corpuz, V.
  (2002): Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is
  Possible: A Report of the International Forum on Globalization.
  San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
• Tauli-Corpuz V.
  and Mander, J. (2007): Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Resistance
  to Economic Globalization. Sierra Club.