• A Green History of the World - Clive Ponting
• A Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• Beyond Civilization - Daniel Quinn
• Blue Gold - Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke
• Cadilllac Desert - Marc Reisner
• Chicken Tractor - Andy Lee
• Climate in Crisis - Albert Bates
• Coming Back to Life - Joanna Macy
• Constructed Wetlands in the Sustainable Landscape - Campbell/Ogden
• Cycling to Win - unable to find author
• Dreaming War - Gore Vidal
• Farms of Tomorrow - Traugher Groh
• Gardening for the Future of the Earth - Howard-Yana Shapiro and John Harrisson
• Healing with Whole Foods - Paul Pitchford
• How to Grow More Vegetables - John Jeavons
• Idiots Guide to Weather - Mel Goldstein
• Logging Towns of Texas - unable to find author
• Maybe One - Bill McKibben
• No Contest - Alfred Kohn
• Organic Gardening for Texas - Howard Garrett
• Phytoremediation of Toxic Materials - Raskin
• Radical Honesty - Brad Blanton
• Rainwater Catchment Systems for Domestic Supply - John Gould and Erick Nissen Peterson
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
• Roadside Guide to Texas Geology - Darwin Spearing
• Sacred Pleasure - Riane Eisler
• Saving the Best of Texas - Richard Bartlett
• Small is Beautiful - E.F. Schumacher
• SolViva - Anna Edey
• Spaces for the Soul - unable to find author
• The Communities Directory -Fellowship for Intentional Community
• The Great Work - Thomas Berry
• The Guerrilla Greywater Guide to Water - 417 48th Street, Oakland CA 94609 (enclose a couple bucks for postage)
• The New Independent Home - Michael Potts
• The Strawbale House - Bill and Athena Steen
• Weeds - unable to find author

Magazines

• Yes!
• Permaculture Activist
• Mother Earth News
• Murray McMurray Hatcheries Catalogue

Web sites

• http://www.realgoods.com
• http://www.planetdrum.com
• http://www.ail.org/
• http://www.fungiperfecti.com/ (All about mushrooms and phytoremediation)
• http://www.main.org/cahbs/ (Beekeeping information from Capital Area Honey Bee Stewards)
• http://www.austinprogressivecalendar.com
• http://www.treefolks.org/ (Plant 10,000 trees in Austin, TX)
• http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/greenbuilder/ (Green Building Program Web site)
• http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/greenbuilder/fs_austinclimate.htm (Green Building Program Factsheet on Austin's Climate)
• http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/ (Alternative Farming Systems Information Center)
• http://www.agroforestry.net/overstory/overstory.html (agroforestry online newsletter)
• http://www.jimhightower.com/

Inspirational People

• Ruth Stout
• Wendell Berry
• Jim Hightower (The Hightower Lowdown)

• Ancient Futures:Learning From Ladhak Helena Norberg Hodge
• Beyond Civilization Daniel Quinn
• Clan of the Cave Bear (1st in a series of 6) Jean Auel
• Drinking The Rain (memoir-she lived off the land in the NE) Alix Kate Shulman
• Dune (the whole series) very Sci-Fi Frank Herbert
• Earth Abides Stewart-Fiction:Plague/survivors/new culture
• Green History of the World Cliye Ponting
• Healing With Whole Foods Paul Pitchford
• Illusions (how things could be) Richard Pach or Dach
• Ishmael Daniel Quinn
• Johnathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach
• One Is The Sun Patricia PennWarren
• One Straw Revolution Masanobu Fulkuolca
• Open Veins of Latin America Eduardo Galeano
• Power vs Force (a book on kinesiology and consciouness)
• Red Earth, White Lies;Custer Died for Your Sins VineDeloriata
• Square Foot Gardening Mel Bartholomew
• Texas Land Ethics (read this if you live in Texas) Max Oelshlager
• The Alchemist Palo Coehlo
• The Communities Directory (Directory of Communities and Ecovillages)
• The Fifth Sacred Thing Starhawk
• The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
• The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
• The Prophet Kahlil Gibran
• Women on the Edge of Time Marle Picrey