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David Pollard's How to Save the World Reading List - Most Influential

<blockquote>"One of my readers asked me recently for a short list of the books from my Save the World Reading List that were most influential in forming my natural/environmental philosophy. Here’s what I answered:"</blockquote>

(found at: http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/05/02.html#a1131)
1. Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
by Stephen Jay Gould
  
4. The Story of B
by Daniel Quinn
  
5. A Language Older Than Words
by Derrick Jensen
  
6. The World We Want
by Mark Kingwell
  
7. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
by David Abram
  
8. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Indigenous Americas)
by Thomas King
  
9.
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 Humans in the Wilderness  
11.
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 The commonwealth of life: A treatise on stewardship economics
by Peter G Brown
  
12. A Short History of Progress
by Ronald Wright
  
13. Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
by John Gray
  
14. Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities
by Diana Leafe Christian
  
15. The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century
by James Howard Kunstler
  
16. The Wealth of Man
by Peter Jay
  
17. Extinction
by Michael Boulter
  
18. The Axemaker's Gift
by Robert Ornstein
  
19. The Unconscious Civilization
by John Ralston Saul
  
20. Ockham's Razor
by Wade Rowland
  
21. People Before Profit: The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisis
by Charles Derber
  
22. State of the World 2008: Toward a Sustainable Global Economy (State of the World)
by The Worldwatch Institute
  
23. The Dream of the Earth
by Thomas Berry
  
24. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, Revised Edition
by Fareed Zakaria
  
25. The New Rulers of the World
by John Pilger
  
26. The Demon in the Freezer
by Richard Preston
  
27. Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
by Richard Manning
  
28.
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 The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons
by Garrett Hardin
  
29. Elizabeth Costello
by J. M. Coetzee
  
30. When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
  
31.
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 Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds (P.S.)
by Bernd Heinrich
  
32. The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
by David Suzuki
  
33. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
by James Lovelock
  
34. The Hidden Dimension
by Edward T. Hall
  
35. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
by Daniel Quinn
  
36. Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
by Daniel Quinn
  
37. The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
by Jonathan Schell
  
38. The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism
by Shoshana Zuboff
  
39. Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
by Thom Hartmann
  
40. When Corporations Rule the World
by David C. Korten
  
41. Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth
by Jim Merkel
  
42. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
  
43. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
by Joel Bakan
  
44. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
by Stuart Kauffman
  
45. Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution
by Elisabet Sahtouris
  
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