Snake Cradle (Snake dreaming)
Roberta Sykes was a mentor to me and a gift to everyone who knew her and read her writing. Her activism opened up education horizons at Harvard for many black women and her fierce and sustained fight for justice saw many victories in her lifetime. Her Snake Dreamingseries (trilogy) is her own potent story.
Urban Planning in Rich and Poor Countries
I was fortunate to study under Hugh Stretton and this book remains a classic on the principles and practice of best urban planning.
Japanese Pilgrimage
A meditation on this writer’s pilgrimage with the mystics and within the mountains of Japan.
Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics
A magical thinker and writer, connected to the planets and the universe in her ways of seeing and being.
Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action
I met Philip Sutton when we were both speaking at an event and I was impressed by his argument and later by this book. The book makes an urgent case for taking bold action to stem the impact on the Earth’s climate so that catastrophe can be averted before action is beyond human restoration. The authors emphasize an environmental emergency that cannot be dealt with by business as usual strategies and provide both a balanced analysis as well as laying out a pathway for action.
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Solnit’s writing is luminous, her subjects wide ranging, from a history of walking to ways to get lost. Her book, A Paradise Built in Hell, is about citizens assuming their own power in disaster response rather than giving over power and control to authorities. Read it in conjunction with Dave Egger’s book, Zeitoun.
Back on the Fire: Essays
A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds The Practice of the Wild The Back Country and many more! While traveling through Canada years ago, I happened on a book of Snyder’s poetry. Transfixed,…
The Spirit’s Pilgrimage
Ibu Gedong, a former member of Indonesian Parliament and founder of a Gandhi Ashram in Candidasa, Bali, introduced me to Slade’s book when I was staying at the ashram. This is the story of Gandhi’s English discipline and of her spiritual pilgrimage pre and post, and with Gandhi.
Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed
Her book, Ecofeminism, remains a vital manifesto for an ecologically sustainable word. She deservedly has a large global following for her work, activism, intellectual and practical leadership.
Ecofeminism
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge…
Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
An intimate parallel journey of father and son spliced with their Camino piligrimage in Spain. It’s the pilgrimage I plan to do when I’m 50 and their tracing their own cultural traditions and ancestry is beautiful to behold
Without Wings the Way is Steep: The Autobiography of Sybil Shearer, Vol. 1
It began with a newspaper cutting about Shearer’s death and led to a magical journey of discovery about her life, her dance, her sensational creativity and imagination of expression. There is a DVD included in this too. The Midwest Inheritance (Without Wings the Way Is Steep: The Autobiography of Sybil Shearer, Volume II)