An email query resulted in the following list of books and websites recommended by Summit participants. We hope you enjoy adding these titles to your reading list. They are in no particular order, and included books authored by Summit speakers.
SUMMIT SPEAKER TITLES
Reconstructing Earth: Technology and Environment in the Age of Humans
Braden Allenby, 2005
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil
David Goodstein, 2005
State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future
Worldwatch Institute, 2007
Bucky Works: Buckminster Fuller's Ideas Today
J. T. Baldwin
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Paul Hawken, L. Hunter Lovins, Amory Lovins
Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security
Amory B. Lovins, E. Kyle Datta, Odd-Even Bustnes and Jonathan G. Koomey
Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RECOMMENDED TITLES
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond, 2005
The Universe is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story
Brian Swimme
Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century
Alex Steffen
GEO Yearbook 2007: An Overview of Our Changing Environment
United Nations Environment Programme
The Way of The Scout
Tom Brown Jr.
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
Viktor Papanek, 1995
Materials Matter: Toward a Sustainable Materials Policy
Kenneth Geiser, 2001
The Ecology of Commerce
Paul Hawken
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Al Gore
The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius
Nancy C. Andreasen, 2005
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough & Michael Braungart, 2002
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
Elizabeth Royte
Sex, Drink and Fast Cars
Stephen Bayley
Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model
Ray C. Anderson
FICTION
Concrete Island
JG Ballard
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Edward Abbey
WEBSITES
Kevin Kelly's website
with special mention of The Technium link as well as Cool Tools
www.kk.org
The Long Now Foundation
http://www.longnow.org/
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
www.wbcsd.org
INSPIRATION
Brunelleschi's Dome
The Bible
