Reading Material

A request was sent to the Sustainable OKC and OSN email lists for suggested reading material for the sustainability movement.  The following titles and resources were suggested:

Books

• A Field Guide to Sprawl - Dolores Hayden and Jim Wark 
• A Place in Space - Gary Snyder
• A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
• Biomimicry - Janine Benyus
• Cities for a Small Planet - Richard Rogers
• Cradle to Cradle - McDonough
• Ecology of Commerce - Paul Hawken
• The Environmental Pendulum - R. Allan Freeze
• Faith and Fortune
• For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future (Paperback) - Herman E. Daly
• From Naked Ape to Superspecies - David Suzuki, Holly Dressel
• Governing the Commons - Elinor Ostrom, ISBN 0-521-40599-8
• The Logic of Self-Sufficiency - Thomas Princen
• Mid-course Correction - Ray Anderson
• My name is Chellis and I'm in recovery from Western Civilization - Chellis Glendinnig
• Natural Capitalism, Creating the Next Industrial Revolution - Paul Hawkin and Amory and Hunter Lovins, ISBN 0-316-35300-0
• Our Stolen Future
• Population Bomb, Paul Erlich
• Silent Spring
• State of Fear -  Michael Crichton [alternative perspective]
• World Watch Institute publications

  Online

• www.onearth.org, from Natural Resources Defense Council 
• www.earthisland.org
• www.emagzine.com
• www.wri.org
• www.farmshow.com

Newsletters/Magazines

• www.balance.org
• www.carryingcapacity.org
• www.npg.org
• Mother Earth News
• Mother Jones
• The Countryside [a homesteading magazine]
• Farmshow [articles by farmers describing what they have invented]

Graduate Studio Reading List compliments of Mack Caldwell

The following books are those that the faculty and alumni have found useful in understanding themselves and others, creativity and architecture, and sustainability and regional response. Your contribution to this growing list will be valuable to those who follow you in pursuit of an architecture based on the “bedrock qualities of environmental and human-centered design [that] allow us to reassert the deeper values and meanings to be found in the built environment.” (Croxton, 2000) 

• The Sacred Balance*
• For an Architecture of Reality*
• Silent Spring
• Sustainable Architecture White Papers*
• Ecological Design
• Mid-Course Correction
• Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: A Call
• To Those Who Would Save the Earth
• The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
• The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability
• Biomimicry*
• Housing By People
• Sun, Wind, and Light*
• The Climatic Dwelling*
• Daylighting for Sustainable Design
• The Passive Solar Energy Book
• Green Architecture*
• Green Building Guidelines
• Visual Notes
• Designing with Nature: The Ecological Basis for Architectural Design
• The Green Skyscraper
• The Power of Limits
• A Green Vitruvious*
• A Brief History of Everything
• The Healing House
• Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture
• Vernacular Spectacular
• Mud, Space and Spirit
• The Place of Houses*
• Goff on Goff
• Big & Green*
• The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design
• The Philosophy of Sustainable Design*
• LEED Reference Guide*

 * Books that are required to be on hand in studio.

Use Less Stuff Reading List compliments of Susie Shields is available at this link: ULSbooks.pdf.

This list is also posted on OSN's discussion forum at http://lists.oksustainability.org/forum/.  Click on "Community" and you will see a topic called "Reading Material".  You can add suggestions for new books or comment about books on the list.  We welcome your input!