A Green Reading List

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Background Reading

Zinn, Howard 2003. A People's History of the United States. Harper Collins, New York.

Bruun, Erik, & Crosby, Jay (Editors, 1999). Our Nation's Archive: The History of the United States in Documents. Black Dog & Leventhal, New York.

Bailey, Suzanne (2002). Essential History of american Art. Parragon Publishing, Bath.

Greens Ten Key Values

Ecological wisdom

Social justice

Health Care

National Health Insurance. A good resource is the Campaign for Better Health Care. Their site is contains a store of information about just health care systems. You'll see this quote:

"Of all the forms of inequalities, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."

-Martin Luther King, Jr

Grassroots democracy

Nonviolence/peace.

Why are we at war?

Coilin Nunan: Oil, Currency and the War on Iraq. This a link to an article at FEASTA, the Irish based Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability.

William Clark, The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War With Iraq: A Macroeconomic and Geostrategic Analysis of the Unspoken Truth' (January 2003). This deserves careful attention. It's not an easy read, but is well worth the effort.

What can we do to end the war?

Decentralization

Community based economics

Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone (Editors).Voices from the Open Source Revolution. Community based economics, but this community is world wide. Linked by the internet, the Open Source Movement seeks to make the digital revolution open to everyone. The story is told by the the revolutionaries who developed the model and helped make it work. Available for free download or purchase print edition.

Feminism/gender equity

Respect for diversity

Personal and global responsibility

Future focus/sustainability

Peak Oil

Must reading, the classic article from Scientific American, March 1998 edition: The End of Cheap Oil. Two years after this article was published, the Bush administration bet the store on the hope of abundant oil supplies from the Mideast. The troops are still there.

Alternative Energy

Drake, Alan S.

A Report