Suggested Reading

for

In Search of Sustainability

     Note: Below each of the titles you'll find a link to various quotes taken from each book. The reader is asked to remember that these quotes are presented, not as definitive statements about community in general or Windward in particular, but rather as points for later discussion.


     The Update Log as of January 18, 2009
          a listing of updates to the Quotes and Relevance notes.

Technical:

These books talk about some of the key systems we're working on

Solviva: How to grow $500,000 on one acre, and Peace on Earth
     by Anna Edey
     Quotes
     Relevance

A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise Of Ecological Design
     by Nancy Jack Todd
     Quotes
     Relevance

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
     by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
     Quotes
     Relevance--Walt
     Relevance--Emily
     Relevance--Jen
     Relevance--Opalyn

History:

These books provide insights into about how three very different communities achieved a high degree of sustainability.

The Forgotten Founders: How the American Indian Helped Shape Democracy
     by Bruce Johansen
     Forgotten Founders online
     Quotes

Work and Worship Among the Shakers
     by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews
     Quotes

Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community
     by Spencer Klaw
     Quotes

Fiction:

These books describe various visions of how a sustainable society could be created, and served as the source for some of the concepts that Windward uses to work toward sustainability. Note: the caveat given at the beginning of this listing bears repeating here in that many of the quotes listed in this section are from fictional works, and may or may not represent either the core beliefs of the author or the principles guiding Windward's evolution as an organization. These quotes are intended to be intellectually provocative, not to be taken as gospel.


The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
     by Robert Heinlein
     Quotes
     A Background Article by Jeff Riggenbach

Looking Backward
     by Edward Belamy
     Looking Backward online
     Quotes

Herland
     by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
     Herland online
     Quotes

Supplemental Resources:

These books offer insights into how people lived in the past, and how people may live in the future.

Radical Evolution: the promise and peril of enhancing our minds, our bodies--and what it means to be human
     by Joel Garreau
     Quotes
     Relevance

The Pillars of the Earth
     by Ken Follet
     Quotes
     Relevance

     
Notes From Windward - Index - Vol. 66