Recommended reading...
Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things.
William McDonough & Michael Braungart
(New York: North Point Press 2002)
Dirt
The Erosion of Civilisations
David R Montgomery
(Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University
of California Press, 2007)
Green is Good
An Insider's Story of the Battle for a Green Australia
Jeff Angel
(Sydney: ABC Books, 2008)
He Knew He Was Right
The Irrepressible Life of James Lovelock and Gaia
John Gribbin & Mary Gribbon
(London: Penguin: Allen Lane, 2009)
Hot, flat and crowded
Why the World Needs a Green Revolution –
and How We Can Renew Our Global Future
Thomas L. Friedman
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008)
Now or Never
A sustainable Future for Australia?
Tim Flannery
(Quarterly Essay Issue 31: Melbourne: Schwartz Media, September 2008)
The Age of the Unthinkable
Why the new world disorder constantly surprises
us and what to do about it
Joshua Cooper Ramo
(London: Little, Brown Book Group, 2009)
The Assault on Reason
How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making, Degrade Democracy and Imperil America and the World
Al Gore
(London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007)
The Final Call
Investigating who really pays for our holidays
Leo Hickman
(London: Transworld Publishers, 2007)
... and links
Fab Labs (MIT/USA)
Low cost labs that let people build things they need using digital & analog tools
Garnaut Climate Change Review (Australia)
MBDC (USA)
Transforming Industry: Cradle to Cradle Design
Cradle to Cradle Certification
TED: Technology, Entertainment, Design (USA)
Ideas Worth Spreading
Total Environment Centre (Australia)
ECOS Magazine (CSIRO/Australia)
The Monthly (Australia)
Quarterly Essay (Australia)
Thomas L Friedman (USA)
James Howard Kunstler (USA)