Balaton Reading List
What does a cross-disciplinary, multi-cultural, and inter-generational group of leaders in sustainable development read for inspiration?
I asked that question at the recent Balaton Group meeting, and the following list emerged.
Balaton 2012 – Books that Have Inspired Us
Global Citizen by Donella Meadows
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
Limits to Growth by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers and William W. Behrens III
Deep Future: The Next One Hundred Years on Earth by Curt Stager
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Starfish and The Spider: Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom
Bottom Billion: By Paul Collier
The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge
La Nature of Nature by Edgar Morin
Cultural Theory by Michael Thompson
The Systems Thinking Playbook by Linda Booth Sweeney and Dennis Meadows
How much is enough? The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life
by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky
Happiness by Richard Layard
Believing Cassandra, by Alan AtKisson
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
The Great Disruption by Paul Gilding
The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life,
by Jean-Francois Revel, Matthieu Ricard, John Canti, Jack Miles
The Divine Engineer by Phil Ryan
Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
by Brian Walker, David Salt
Groping in the Dark by Donella Meadows, John Richardson, and Gerhardt Bruckman
Report from Iron Mountain: The Possibility and Desirability of Peace, by John Doe
Group Portrait With Lady by Heinrich Boll and and Leila Vennewitz
The Origins of Political Order by Frances Fukuyama
IQ84 by Haruki Murakaami
The Conundrum by David Owen
Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems Studies By Joanna Macy
The Blue Planet, An Introduce to Earth System Science by Brian J. Skinner and Barbara W. Murck
Occupy World Street by Ross Jackson
To Have or To Be? Eric Fromm
True Wealth by Juliet Schorr
Ecomind by Frances Moore Lappe
A Brief History of Everything By Ken Wilber
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Urban Dynamics by Jay Forrester
Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter
The Natural Alien by Neil Evernden
Climate Wars by Harald Welzer
Walking on Water by Derek Jensen
Occupy World Street by Ross Jackson
Sustainability Science Textbook by Bert De Vries
Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems
By Lance H. Gunderson and C.S. Holling
Out of Our Minds by Ken Robinson
The Natural Alien by Neils Evernden
Walking on Water by Derrik Jensen
Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainkle
Transgovernence by Topfler (Potsdam Institute)
Momo by Michael Ende
Celestine: Life in a French Village by Gillian Tindall
Happy reading.
More on this year’s Balaton Meeting in my next post!